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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.
The number eight plays an important part in Gnostic systems, and it is necessary to distinguish the different forms in which it appeared at different stages in the development of Gnosticism. The earliest Gnostic systems included a theory of seven heavens and a supercelestial region called the Ogdoad.
This same heavenly tabernacle appears as part of the imagery of the book of the Revelation (11:19, 15:5). In the same book the church appears as the Lamb's wife, the new Jerusalem descending from heaven; and St. Paul's teaching (Ephesians 1:3) might be thrown into the form that the church existed in God's election before the foundation of the ...
The Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter, also known as the Coptic Apocalypse of Peter and Revelation of Peter, is the third tractate in Codex VII of the Nag Hammadi library. The work is associated with Gnosticism , a sect of early Christianity , and is considered part of the New Testament apocrypha and a work of apocalyptic literature .
The text divides the cosmos into the material world, the celestial realm (up to the seventh heaven), and the divine realm (the Ogdoad, ninth heaven, and tenth heaven). [17] Roig Lanzillotta believes that the apostles accompany Paul only to the top of the celestial realm, since Paul is portrayed as a higher Gnostic authority than they are.
The Valentinians believed that the attainment of this knowledge by the human individual had positive consequences within the universal order and contributed to restoring that order, [10] and that gnosis, not faith, was the key to salvation. Clement wrote that the Valentinians regarded Catholic Christians "as simple people to whom they ...
Hypostasis of the Archons is a Sethian Gnostic text. [1] [2] The Gnostics held a negative view of the material world, which they believed was made by a flawed creator inferior to the ultimate God, and professed a soteriology of salvation through knowledge. [3]
Republic by Plato – The original is not Gnostic, but the Nag Hammadi library version is heavily modified with then-current Gnostic concepts. The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth – a Hermetic treatise; The Prayer of Thanksgiving (with a hand-written note) – a Hermetic prayer; Asclepius 21–29 – another Hermetic treatise; Codex VII: The ...