Gnostic

He may even have been a monk, for monks are known to have revered Gnostic texts and kept them in their libraries.

Member of any of several Gnostic sects that flourished in the Roman empire in the 2nd century AD and for several centuries thereafter.

They look Gnostic in some ways, but they don't seem to have a belief in two gods, necessarily, that other Gnostic groups do.

What is clear in these works is a concerted effort to dismiss and, beyond that, to annihilate all that they construe as Gnostic.

The so-called Gnostic gospels, many discovered just last century, did not meet these criteria.

One of the central teachings of Gnostic saints was the experience of the inner Light.

The building of systems is a Gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.

This division is at the very heart of many Gnostic writings.

Thus, without reference to anything authentically Gnostic, Voegelin claims that Nietzsche represents a "gnosis shut off" from transcendence.

Once the church decided against the Gnostic writings, they gathered and burned all the Gnostic manuscripts they could find.

Two teachers of Gnostic, heterodox repute, traveled abroad at different times during the middle of the second century AD.

What's the Gnostic interpretation of that?

In the postwar period, the scientist with Gnostic-style knowledge and shadowy connections to power ascended to massive public fame.

For example, many Gnostic writings argued that Jesus did not appear in the flesh, because flesh is evil, or they rejected the Old Testament.

But by this time the Voegelinian misuse of "Gnostic" had ossified into political dogma, and even he could not stop it.

Platonism itself might be called proto-Gnostic, that is, Gnosticism before Gnosticism.

The Gnostic influence can be seen in the New Testament, particularly the Gospel of John.

This idea that you have esoteric knowledge would be called a Gnostic kind of notion.

The Gospel of Judas was inscribed on papyrus, most likely at a Gnostic monastery in Egypt.

It would have taken only one man to hide the Judas gospel, which was bound together with three other Gnostic texts.

There is also a very important figure that some people will call Gnostic, but we now tend not to.

In gnostic thought, a divine seed was imprisoned in every person.

There are even orthodox Christians who might use the term Gnostic in the second century to refer even to themselves.

Gnostic writing also features terms such as "bridal chamber" , used without any connotation of sexual intimacy.

That's just what that word Gnostic often meant.

GNOSTIC SACRED DANCE (ANCIENT GREECE)

the various gnostic sects played an important part in early christianity