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	Gnosticism
		Gnostics classified people according to three categories: (1) gnostics, or those certain of salvation, because they were under the influence of the spirit (pneumatikoi); (2) those not fully gnostics, but capable of salvation through knowledge (psychikoi); and (3) those so dominated by matter that they were beyond salvation (hylikoi).
		Gnosticism was denounced by the Christian theologians Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and Tertullian.
		Also among the Christian Gnostic tractates are the Apocryphon of James, the Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles, the Treatise on the Resurrection, the long collection known as the Tripartite Tractate, and three editions of the Apocryphon of John (the fascinating story of creation which involves a reinterpretation of the Genesis accounts).
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/gnostici.htm (3815 words)

	Sacred Scrolls of the Essene Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The supreme rôle assigned to the Christ of the Gospels, as of the Gnostics, is that of Manifestor and Revealer of the Father in heaven.
		With the Gnostics knowledge was the foundation of their faith; but the Historic Christians made faith the basis of knowledge, and the first demand of the new faith was for the convert to believe that all the mythical typology of the past had been made literally true in the present.
		Gnostic Christianity was absolutely, fundamentally, and for ever opposed to the historic rendering, and yet the Gnostic doctrines of the fourth Gospel, and of Paul's and James' Epistles, have been allowed to remain under cover and control as spiritual forces artfully tethered to draw for the physical and anti-Gnostic Faith.
	essenes.net /gnostichistor.html (13565 words)

	Gnosticism: ancient and modern
		Gnosticism is not factual, intellectual, rational knowledge, such as is involved in mathematics and physics; that would have been more accurately represented by the Greek world "episteme.
		Gnostics believe that they have secret knowledge about God, humanity and the rest of the universe of which the general population was unaware.
		Its beliefs are currently experiencing a rebirth throughout the world, triggered in part by the discovery of an ancient Gnostic library at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in the 1940s, and the finding of the Gospel of Judas at El Minya, Egypt, in the 1970s.
	www.religioustolerance.org /gnostic.htm (432 words)

	Gnostic History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This Gnostic Christianity invites people to seek within themselves a deeper sense of self that leads ultimately to the revelation that within each of us is a "True Self" that is a spark of divinity.
		In the Gnostic approach, the world is not viewed as a good place that was driven into sin by the acts of human beings, but rather is a place that lacks the fullness of love and moral sense that is at the heart of the divine.
		Gnostic Christianity was up-rooted in the early centuries because it spoke against oppressive ecclesiastical forms and the dominant "atonement theology" that is practiced in "orthodox" Christianity.
	www.1gnostic.com /church.html (457 words)

	Gnosticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gnostic myth recounts that Sophia (Greek, literally meaning "wisdom"), the Demiurge's mother and a partial aspect of the divine Pleroma or "Fullness", desired to create something apart from the divine totality, and without the receipt of divine assent.
		The Gnostic myths describing these events are full of intricate nuances portraying the declination of aspects of the divine into human form; this process occurs through the agency of the Demiurge who, having stolen a portion of power from his mother, sets about a work of creation in unconscious imitation of the superior Pleromatic realm.
		Gnosticism holds that the world is controlled by evil archons, one of whom is the demiurge, the deity of the Old Testament who holds the human spirit captive.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gnostic (8269 words)

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		The Gnostic view is that God is within everyone and everything, that nature and the universe is the very embodiment of God and contrary to the orthodox Christian teaching that the natural man is an enemy to God.
		Gnostic Christians suddenly jumped into the limelight with Da Vinci Code as a new view was suggested for Gnostic text and how we view the traditions of the early orthodox Christian Church, which were shown to be simply the acts of men positioning themselves for power and money.
		Today mainstream orthodox Christians have no idea about the early history of Christianity, they rely upon traditions of their faith, yet they question nothing, for they are taught to never question the Church.
	www.ghostweb.com /gnostic.html (1799 words)

	Gnostic & Historic Christianity
		The existence of primitive and pre-historic Christians is acknowledged in the Gospel according to Mark when John says,--"Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us." That, as the context shows, was done in the name of the Christ, and, consequently, such were Christians.
		These communities of the primitive Christians had long been accustomed to send forth their bare-footed apostles into all the known world, to inculcate the common brotherhood of man, founded on the common fatherhood of God, and to labor for the family of the human race.
		This was the Christ of the first Christians, and this was their model man, the Ideal meek and lowly one, which the writers of the Gospels have sought to realize in the form of historic personality.
	mysticalkeys.com /library/Massey/massey_gnostic.htm (13444 words)

	GNOSTICISM - History & ancient sources of information
		Gnosticism consisted of many syncretistic belief systems which combined elements taken from Asian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek and Syrian pagan religions, from astrology, and from Judaism and Christianity.
		The Gnostic faith is undergoing a resurgence in the 21st century, primarily in Western countries.
		Knowledge about this movement had been inferred mainly from extensive attacks that were made on Gnosticism by Christian heresiologists (writers against heresy) of the second and early third century.
	www.religioustolerance.org /gnostic1.htm (872 words)

	Amazon.com: The Gnostic Gospels: Books: Elaine Pagels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gnosticism's Christian form grew to prominence in the 2nd century A.D. Ultimately denounced as heretical by the early church, Gnosticism proposed a revealed knowledge of God ("gnosis" meaning "knowledge" in Greek), held as a secret tradition of the apostles.
		Gnostics basically saw their faith as an internal thing, a practice based on the secret knowledge Jesus supposedly shared with a select number of individuals, one of whom was Mary Magdalene.
		To the orthodox Christians, this was blasphemy, for the church as we know it is basically built on the faith and belief that God's son took on a human form and died in the literal sense on the Cross in order to conquer Death and save all of his followers.
	www.amazon.com /Gnostic-Gospels-Vintage-Elaine-Pagels/dp/0679724532 (2556 words)

	THE GNOSTIC GOSPEL OF ST. THOMAS
		This sometimes lyrical gnostic document is probably the most “traditionalist Gnostic Christian” material we have reviewed to date (with the exception of SIGNS FOR A MESSIAH)—and since it is gnostic in orientation; it’s not really traditional at all.
		Christianity is one of the three so-called “confessional, monotheist religions” (along with Judaism and Islam)—that is based on the idea of faith (a belief in a “supernatural” world beyond the five senses).
		The traditional Gnostic doctrine that the author is indicating here describes a human as having three basic natures: the physical, the mental or psychic, and the highest level beyond duality.
	www.gnostics.com /st.thomas.html (1375 words)

	Gnostic Renaissance Information Project
		Until the nineteenth century the main source of knowledge of Gnosticism was, ironically, in the writings of the Church Fathers, who in their refutations summarised gnostic texts and often quoted at length from them.
		"The [gnostic] movement and its literature were essentially wiped out by the end of the 5th century CE by heresy hunters from mainline Christianity.
		Catharism was a sect of Christianity in the south of France whose members inspired such hatred in the Catholic Church that a Crusade was declared against them and they were slaughtered without mercy.
	members.tripod.com /~gnostica (1132 words)

	Nag Hammadi Library
		The texts discovered at Nag Hammadi available in the Gnostic Society Library are indexed in alphabetical order, and by their location in the original codices.
		Other important primary Gnostic texts -- texts available prior to discover of the Nag Hammadi Library collection -- are also available; these are indexed in the Gnostic Scriptures section of the The Gnostic Society Library.
		Writings of creative and redemptive mythology, including Gnostic alternative versions of creation and salvation: The Apocryphon of John; The Hypostasis of the Archons; On the Origin of the World; The Apocalypse of Adam; The Paraphrase of Shem.
	www.gnosis.org /naghamm/nhl.html (1052 words)

	Summum is Gnostic Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The opening verses of the Gospel of John, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" allude to the Gnostic concept of the Logos (which translates as Word), a divine presence.
		In the first century of Christianity, Gnosticism was one of the three major branches of the faith.
		The Gnostics posited an original spiritual unity that came to be split into a plurality.
	www.summum.us /philosophy/gnosticism.shtml (2162 words)

	Gnostic Christianity.com. The outlawed logic/logos teachings of Jesus. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gnostic Christianity teaches a non-judgemental "process" of reasoning.
		This new process, is justified by a natural principle that Jesus revealed and contemporary physics demonstrates is a scientific fact.
		The Gnosis, or reasoning process, that Gnostic Christianity introduces, does not contradict Jesus' spiritually-centered public teachings.
	www.gnosticchristianity.com (202 words)

	Llewellyn's On-line Bookstore: Living Gnosis: A Practical Guide to Gnostic Christianity
		Gnostic revival is growing in the United States and Europe as people are discovering the mystical roots of their own Western Tradition.
		This easy-to-read, deeply spiritual introduction to Gnostic Christianity helps beginners down the Gnostic path to esoteric insights and wisdom.
		Focusing primarily on Sophian Gnosticism, Tau Malachi explains the origins, teachings, and nature of this living tradition.
	www.llewellyn.com /bookstore/book.php?pn=J718 (159 words)

	The Beliefnet Guide to Gnosticism, Gnostic, Christianity -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From its earliest days, Christianity has been marked by a rich diversity of beliefs and practices.
		Most of these divergent Christian movements were lost to history until the twentieth century, when the discovery of ancient documents opened a new window on the development of Christianity.
		Publishers Weekly praises the book's "compact, entertaining style that is sure to please the casual reader." Written by Richard L. Valantasis, a renowned scholar of Christian origins, with a preface by "Jesus Seminar" scholar Marcus Borg, this invaluable guide is a wonderful introduction to the study of early Christianity in all its broad diversity.
	www.beliefnet.com /gnosticismbook (295 words)

	Gnostic and Historic Christianity by Gerald Massey
		The supposed personal teacher and historic founder of primitive Christianity is made to say
		and the human history was added to the Gnostic "Gospel of the Lord." The "Sayings of the Lord" were first, and they were not personal.
		As an adherent of Historic Christianity, that writer has all along been a Believer in what he did not know to be facts; and a believer just because he did not know; and now he finds
	www.theosophical.ca /GnosticChristianity.htm (13766 words)

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