The subsequent tautology goes: Gnostics reputedly had systems; Hegel had a system; therefore Hegel is a Gnostic, and further, all system-builders are Gnostics.
有些人涉入Gnostic或Tantric教派，一種表現出錯綜複雜天使、惡魔、天堂、地獄名單，以及永無止盡討論象徵的教派。
There is also a very important figure that some people will call Gnostic, but we now tend not to.
But there are undisputed Christians who believe in the Gnostic gospels, which are also not part of the Canon; there are also Christians who dispute the literal truth of the Bible, and so on.
Some people said that's one of the fundamental things about the Gnostic myths and it's not in the Gospel of Thomas, therefore the Gospel of Thomas is not Gnostic.
The syncretic, dualistic religious philosophy taught by the Persian prophet Manes, combining elements of Zoroastrian, Christian, and Gnostic thought and opposed by the imperial Roman government, Neo - Platonist philosophers, and orthodox Christians.
But Western Christianity developed an apparatus to crush dissent, to annihilate a plurality of views, to obliterate those who espoused a Gnostic path to spiritual realization.
That is what is implied by O'Regan's pronouncement that today it is impossible to follow Bohme, i.e., Gnostic life is closed to man.
Did he not write earlier that the Gnostic seeks to escape the world, and shortly after that of the Gnostic's will to destroy it?
Irenaeus strived to obliterate Gnostic ideas and the writings that espoused them.
The so-called Gnostic gospels, many discovered just last century, did not meet these criteria.
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