What is Gnosticism?

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Here are the quotations read: Voegelin, "Science, Politics and Gnosticism," quoting St Irenaeus, page 9: Perfect salvation consists in the cognition, as such, of the Ineffable Greatness. For since sin and affliction resulted from ignorance (agnoia), this whole system originating in ignorance is dissolved through knowledge (gnosis). Hence, gnosis is the salvation of the inner man.... Gnosis redeems the inner, pneumatic man; he finds his satisfaction in the knowledge of the Whole. And this is the true salvation Burfeind, "Gnostic America," page 6: What is Gnosticism? The Gnosticism 101 answer is, it was an ancient movement centered on esoteric knowledge. It held to a dualistic understanding of the cosmos, in which an evil, lesser god created all things material, and only those who had attained gnosis (knowledge) about their true Source (the higher deity) understood the bodiless Self-ness of their existence. Its salvation program was one of escape, escape of Self from materiality and this oppressive world order. Links: - Pr Wolfmueller’s website: http://www.wolfmueller.co - Substack: https://whatnot.substack.com/ - Books: https://wolfmueller.co/books/ - Free downloads: https://wolfmueller.co/downloads/ - St Paul Lutheran Church, Austin, TX: https://www.stpaulaustin.org/