@KingOfWhiteAmerica @BowsacNoodle @Witch_Hunter_Siegfried @WhiteJihadJaws @grey @Thickasabrick I mean, just by looking at some accounts of gnosticism (I have Plotinus’ account in mind) and Manichaeism, this is much less about “reconciling differences” and much more about fuelling the ego of specific cult leaders

Gnosticism is alien to at least two of the ”great giants” of classical Hellenism, so to speak - Plato and Aristotle.