Examples of using Gnostics in English and their translations into Russian
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These are called"Ascetic" Gnostics.
By the way, Gnostics called pentagram the"flaming star.
The example of early Christians(Gnostics) and Cathars.
The Gnostics identified Abraxas with Yahweh under the Greek form"IAO.
The use of this term was imposed by the presence of gnostics' heresy.
They[the Gnostics] had a like eighth creation which was good and bad, divine and human.
Historical examples of the Knowledge distortion: Jesus Christ and his followers Gnostics.
The Gnostics had a superior, and an inferior Hebdomad in Heaven; and a third terrestrial Hebdomad, on the plane of matter.
This was so well understood,that even the so-called Christian Gnostics adopted this time-honoured system.
In this the Gnostics did not, as seen, differ much from the Esoteric Doctrine, except that they veiled it.
In addition, in the southern half of the country there were numerous adherents of the old Babylonian paganism,as well as Mandaeans and Gnostics.
Gnostics, these heretics and false prophets created their unique teaching that is contradictory to the teaching of the Bible.
Apostle Paul wrote his epistle to Colossians because Christians from that city were attacked by many heresies,one of which were gnostics.
The Gnostics[from the Greek word"gnosis" meaning"knowledge"] taught that God cannot be incarnate i.e.
Irenжus also is our witness- anda very unwilling one- that the Gnostics taught the same system, veiling very carefully the true esoteric meaning.
Gnostics were teaching that this knowledge is not intellectual, but it is a knowledge that a common Christian is not capable to get.
In addition to this, as we have seen,the Fourth Gospel was very popular among Gnostics well before its acceptance and canonization by the institutional church Perkins: 946.
The Gnostics taught that the Spirits of Wickedness, the inferior Seven, derived their origin from the great Mother alone, who produced without the fatherhood!
We say:"This cornerstone of a church which had believed herself built on a firm rock for long centuries, is now excavated by science andproved to come from the Gnostics.
Furthermore, Brown argues that the Gnostics made Mary Magdalene into the Beloved Disciple in response to her portrayal in the Fourth Gospel.
One is taken from the Codex Nazarœus, the Scripture of the Nazarenes, who, although they existed long before the days of Christ, andeven before the laws of Moses, were Gnostics, and many of them Initiates.
I read that the gnostics believe when we are born we are forced to forget where we have come from in order to deal with the trauma of arriving in this life.
Let us take Agni the Fire-god, Indra the firmament, and Karttikeya from the Hindus; the Greek Apollo; and Michael, the"Angel of the Sun," the first of the Eons,called by the Gnostics the"Saviour"- and proceed in order.
Records of the first Christians- Gnostics, which are now referred to as apocrypha, mention that Mary Magdalene and Jesus Christ had a close relationship.
These two creations of man on the sixth day and on the eighth were those of the Adamic, or fleshly man, and of the spiritual man,who were known to Paul and the Gnostics as the first and second Adam, the man of earth and the man of Heaven.
The popularity of the Fourth Gospel among Gnostics made it important for the early church to pursue the question of its apostolic authorship Perkins: 946.
In these Schools, the knowledge is transmitted which has flowed from the sources of spiritual wisdom over the ages, from the great mystery centers: the Egyptian mysteries,the secret monasteries of the Dervishes, the Gnostics, the Cathars, or the Zen temples, to name only a few, across the chain of initiates and masters.
The Gnostics, then, were right in regarding the Jewish God as belonging to a Class of lower, material and not very holy denizens of the invisible World.
Based on Gnostic texts of the Nag Hammadi Library,there are good reasons to believe that Christ's genuine Teaching was introduced to early Christians(Gnostics) exactly through Mary Magdalene, while the other apostolic branch"through Peter and Paul" created what we observe today.
Gnostics were teaching that this“spiritual knowledge” is mysterious and it is discovered only to some, only to the spiritual ones, while all other Christians were considered carnal by them.