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Page from the Gospel of Judas Mandaean Beth Manda in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, in 2016, a contemporary-style mandi. Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός, romanized: gnōstikós, Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos], 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems that coalesced in the late 1st century AD among early Christian sects.
Established in 1953 by Richard Duc de Palatine in England under the name 'the Pre-nicene Gnostic Catholic Church', the Ecclesia Gnostica (Latin: "Church of Gnosis" or "Gnostic Church") is said to represent 'the English Gnostic tradition', although it has ties to, and has been influenced by, the French Gnostic church tradition.
The Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica descended from a line of French Gnostic revival churches that developed in the 19th century. At that time, these Gnostic churches were essentially Christian in nature. In 1907, Gerard Encausse, Jean Bricaud and Louis-Sophrone Fugairon founded their own, simply called the Gnostic Catholic Church. In 1908, they ...
The organisation now called the Ecclesia Gnostica was originally organised in England under the name the Pre-Nicene Gnostic Catholic Church in 1953, [1] [2] by the Most Rev. Richard Jean Chretien Duc de Palatine with the object of "restoring the Gnosis – Divine Wisdom to the Christian Church, and to teach the Path of Holiness which leads to God and the Inner Illumination and Interior ...
Gnostic Society; Holy Order of Mans (Quasi-Gnostic) [citation needed] Johannite Church [citation needed] Liberal Catholic Union [20] Martinism; Muckers [citation needed] Neo-Luciferian Church; Order of the Nazorean Essenes (influenced by Gnosticism) [21] Rosicrucianism; Samael Aun Weor; Society of Novus Spiritus; Theosophy; The Gnostic Catholic ...
The most ardent advocates say denying church-based groups the right to operate charter schools while allowing secular organizations to do so is a form of religious discrimination.
Whereas formerly Gnosticism was considered mostly a corruption of Christianity, it now seems clear that traces of Gnostic systems can be discerned some centuries before the Christian Era. [15] Gnosticism may have been earlier than the 1st century, thus predating Jesus Christ. [16]
The future of the country’s first publicly funded religious charter school in Oklahoma is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court as justices agreed to take up the case on Friday.