GNOSTICISM (from Ancient Greek: γνωστικός gnostikos, "having knowledge", from γνῶσις gnōsis, knowledge) is a modern term categorizing a collection of ancient religions whose adherents shunned the material world – which they viewed as created by the demiurge – and embraced the spiritual world. Combining ideas from ancient Greek philosophy, Egyptian and Persian mythology and the eternal search for enlightenment, salvation, wisdom, emancipation or 'oneness with God', the Gnostics were a very radica

Gnosticism