This week we shall consider “Gnosticism,” a movement which was similar in some ways to Christianity but in other ways very ...

The Gnostics, with their various systems, taught that the creator of the material world (therefore the God of the Old Testament) was in fact an inferior and malevolent god, the abortive offspring ...

First Gnostic writers taught that there was one supreme godhead, called the Monad. This god was distant from mortals. Eventually a number of semi-divine beings emerged from the monad, known as Aeons.

Yet to know oneself, at the deepest level, is simultaneously to know God; this is the secret of gnosis. Another gnostic teacher, Monoimus, says: Abandon the search for God and the creation and ...