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Gnostic Christianity And The Myth Of Sophia
An in-depth survey of early Gnostic Christianity, its teachers, its relationship to modern esoteric thought, and the religious/political environment which shaped its expression. In 1945, near the banks of the River Nile, a jar was unearthed which contained one of the richest manuscript finds of modern history – the Nag Hammadi codices. Like the Dead […]
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A Brief Summary of Gnosticism
Gnosticism Gnosticism is the teaching based on Gnosis, the knowledge of transcendence arrived at by way of interior, intuitive means. Although Gnosticism thus rests on personal religious experience, it is a mistake to assume all such experience results in Gnostic recognitions. It is nearer the truth to say that Gnosticism expresses a specific religious experience, […]
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