Gnosticism
/ˈnɒstɪsɪzəm/noun
- a prominent heretical movement of the 2nd-century Christian Church, partly of pre-Christian origin. Gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge, and that Christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being, esoteric knowledge (gnosis) of whom enabled the redemption of the human spirit.诺斯替教（公元2世纪基督教会的一场重要的异教运动, 部分起源出现于基督教之前; 诺斯替教义主张世界是由一个较小的神、即造物主创造和统治的, 他是遥远和至高无上的, 耶稣基督是他的信使, 以奥秘的知识［真知］来拯救人类的灵魂）。