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Gnosticism   /nˈɑstɪsˌɪzəm/   Listen
Gnosticism

noun
1.
A religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches.





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"Gnosticism" Quotes from Famous Books



... is of Avaloki. One almost might consider that this setting forth of the primordial Buddha was real Monotheism; but on looking more carefully one sees that it is as little real Monotheism as was possible in the system of Gnosticism. Indeed the force of evolution could not stop here; for, since even this primordial Buddha rested upon Ossa of hypothesis piled upon Pelion of hypothesis, there must be other hypotheses yet to come, and so the Tantra system, a compound of old Brahminism ...
— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis


Words linked to "Gnosticism" :   eon, aeon, theological doctrine, Mandeanism, Mandaeanism, heresy, unorthodoxy


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