Sledgstone
March 21st, 2005, 07:12 PM
Gnosˇtiˇcism
The doctrines of certain pre-Christian pagan, Jewish, and early Christian sects that valued the revealed knowledge of God and of the origin and end of the human race as a means to attain redemption for the spiritual element in humans and that distinguished the Demiurge from the unknowable Divine Being.
a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches.
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The doctrines of certain pre-Christian pagan, Jewish, and early Christian sects that valued the revealed knowledge of God and of the origin and end of the human race as a means to attain redemption for the spiritual element in humans and that distinguished the Demiurge from the unknowable Divine Being.
a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gnosticism
http://www.gnosis.org/welcome.html