"From Gnosticism sprang the Manichaeans, who had Mani as their founder and teacher. Mani, freed from his servile statu…"

"Gnostic ideas had a considerable influence upon such idealists as Goethe, Novalis and Hegel. The theosophical movemen…"

"GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. T…"

"The Gnostics were the earliest Christians with anything like a regular theological system, and it is only too evident…"

"The term gnosticism comes from the Greek word gnōsis, which means knowledge. Gnostics are those who are "in the know.…"

"Gnostics and Manichaeans argued that the good god created the spirit and soul, whereas matter and bodies are the crea…"

"The emanistic theories which played so great a part in Neoplatonic philosophy and Gnostic theology are forms of evolu…"

"Gnosticism has always appealed to intellectuals. Freud offered a particularly succulent variety. He had a brilliant g…"

"Abandon the search for God and the creation and other matters of a similar sort. Look for him by taking yourself as t…"

"In the concluding document of Messina the proposal was 'by the simultaneous application of historical and typological…"