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  • ancient Roman society. Gnosticism is an ancient name for a variety of religious ideas and systems, originating in Jewish-Christian milieux in the first...
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    The Gnostic Church of France (French: Église gnostique de France) is a neo-Gnostic Christian organisation formed by Jules Doinel in 1890, in France. It...
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    Gnostic theologians. Nonetheless, early Gnostic teachers such as Valentinus saw their beliefs as aligned with Christianity. In the Gnostic Christian tradition...
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  • spirituality. He formed a new religious movement under the banner of "Universal Gnosticism", or simply gnosis, and taught the practical and esoteric principles...
    76 KB (10,085 words) - 07:21, 25 October 2024
  • Christian universalism is a school of Christian theology focused around the doctrine of universal reconciliation – the view that all human beings will...
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    The doctrine of Christian Universalism has been rejected by most mainstream Christian churches, which tend to maintain at least the possibility that many...
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  • Valentinianism was one of the major Gnostic Christian movements. Founded by Valentinus in the 2nd century AD, its influence spread widely, not just within...
    44 KB (6,365 words) - 10:26, 28 October 2024
  • Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.), or the Gnostic Catholic Church, is a Gnostic church organization. It is the ecclesiastical arm of Ordo Templi Orientis...
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  • Wace. Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature. Delmarva Publications, Inc. p. 27. King, Karen L. (2003). What is Gnosticism?. Harvard University...
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  • Alliance Universal White Brotherhood Ecclesia Gnostica Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica Ecclesia Pistis Sophia Gnostic Church of France Johannite Church The Process...
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  • In many Gnostic systems, various emanations of God are known by such names as One, Monad, Aion teleos (αἰών τέλεος "The Broadest Aeon"), Bythos (βυθός...
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  • Aleister Crowley wrote The Gnostic Mass — technically called Liber XV or "Book 15" — in 1913 while travelling in Moscow, Russia. He described it as representing...
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    State Church of the Roman Empire. Already in the 2nd century, Christians denounced teachings that they saw as heresies, especially Gnosticism but also...
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    there. While there appear to be Gnostic elements in some early Christian writing, Irenaeus and others condemned Gnosticism as a heresy, rejecting its dualistic...
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  • Ecclesia Gnostica (category Gnostics)
    Ecclesia Gnostica (Latin: The Church of Gnosis) is an open sacramental[citation needed] neo-Gnostic church based in the United States. It has ordained...
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  • gnostikoi (γνωστικοί), "knowing" or "men that claimed to have deeper wisdom". Gnosticism is a 17th-century term expanding the definition of Irenaeus' groups to...
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    the division of the sects, e.g., gnosticism, and the heresies". By the beginning of the fourth century, the Great Church already formed about 15% of the...
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  • Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English...
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    Jerusalem church. In Marcion's view, the other apostles were under the auspices of the Demiurge. Marcion is sometimes described as a Gnostic philosopher...
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  • to the "restoration" of the "gnostic" Christians, rather than that of the universe or of all Christians, but with universal implications. Origen's stance...
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