- substance, being), and
demiurge (creator God). Both
Sethian Gnostics and
Valentinian Gnostics seem to have been
influenced by Plato,
Middle Platonism, and...
-
representing understanding, with the face of a
flaming fire In the
system of the
Gnostics mentioned by
Epiphanius we find, as the
Seven Archons, Iao
Saklas (the...
- Proto-
Gnosticism or pre-
Gnosticism refers to
movements similar to
Gnosticism during the
first century of Christianity. Proto-
Gnostics did not have the...
- the Mother, on whom the
faith of the
Gnostics is fixed. Thus a
baptismal confession of
faith of the
Gnostics runs: In the name of the
unknown Father...
- (Perfect) and
Sophia (Wisdom)
According to Irenaeus, the
followers of the
Gnostics Ptolemy and
Colorbasus had
Aeons that
differ from
those of Valentinus....
-
extensively on
Gnostic ideas. A
compilation of her
writings on
Gnosticism is over 270
pages long. The
first edition of King's The
Gnostics and
Their Remains...
- form
resolves to the
ending -d in declension.
Prominent early Christian gnostics like
Valentinus taught that the
Monad is the high
source of the Pleroma...
- needed], and
elements from ****enic philosophy. Both
Sethian Gnostics and the
Valentinian Gnostics incorporated elements of
Christianity and ****enic philosophy...
-
known as the
Chenoboskion M****cripts and the
Gnostic Gospels) is a
collection of
early Christian and
Gnostic texts discovered near the
Upper Egyptian town...
- Christians.
Gnosticism presents a
distinction between the highest,
unknowable God, and the Demiurge, "creator" of the
material universe. The
Gnostics considered...
