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   • djsumdog
   • Jezza™@threads.com (Official)
   • Rasterman
   • Mitch Conner
   @olmitch @Rasterman @djsumdog @jeremiah the first christians were not gnostics. gnosticism was incorporated into Christianity later.
   
   > Gnosticism as a coherent religious movement likely emerged in the first or second century AD
   
   1. it is an esoteric movement
   2. it becomes public when it's over
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     Jezza™@threads.com (Official) (jeremiah@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 12:34:47 JST Jezza™@threads.com (Official)

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     • djsumdog
     • Rasterman
     • Mitch Conner

     @Moon @rasterman @djsumdog @olmitch again, I'd recommend Rudolph's book on the topic.

     Gnosticism is a class, and never converged on a "gnostic orthodoxy". Of those faiths, the Mandeans still exist. The largest and most impactful were the Manicheans.

     Modern gnostic cults include freemasonry. They tend to claim antiquity as an origin, but are only related in their esoteric elitism.

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     • djsumdog
     • Jezza™@threads.com (Official)
     • Rasterman
     • Mitch Conner
     @jeremiah @Rasterman @djsumdog @olmitch yes I know. there were several groups in that vague class. but don't mistake the vague class to mean that the groups themselves didn't have a consistent identity before thy got called that other word