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... Gnosticism or gnosis , are essentially expressions of Middle Platonic commonplaces . Some of them ex- pressed pessimism about the world , but this was not uniquely a Gnostic idea - even though the Neoplatonist Plotinus attacked the Gnostic ...
... Gnosticism or gnosis , are essentially expressions of Middle Platonic commonplaces . Some of them ex- pressed pessimism about the world , but this was not uniquely a Gnostic idea - even though the Neoplatonist Plotinus attacked the Gnostic ...
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... Gnostics but relied on archaic sources . The earlier Gnostic doctrines did not survive the publicity that church writers gave them , and the Gnostics ' lack of orthodoxy and organization caused their sects to fall apart . Christian ...
... Gnostics but relied on archaic sources . The earlier Gnostic doctrines did not survive the publicity that church writers gave them , and the Gnostics ' lack of orthodoxy and organization caused their sects to fall apart . Christian ...
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... Gnostic depiction of aeons and their unions and separa- existential tions . Speaking of the " body schema as archetype of the inter- first man " in Gnostic thought , his pupil Erich Neumann pretations wrote that " ... early man lived in ...
... Gnostic depiction of aeons and their unions and separa- existential tions . Speaking of the " body schema as archetype of the inter- first man " in Gnostic thought , his pupil Erich Neumann pretations wrote that " ... early man lived in ...
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