Gnosticism

Gnostic +‎ -ism

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɒstɪsɪzəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑstəsɪzəm/

Gnosticism (countable and uncountable, plural Gnosticisms)

1. A wide variety of Jewish and early Christian sects having an interest in gnosis, or divine knowledge, and generally holding the belief that there is a god greater than the Demiurge, or the creator of the world.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 31:

     Another contemporary scholar of Gnosticism, C. G. Jung, has taken this notion of the twin ray and applied it to his own model of the contrasexual nature of the self.

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