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Some Gnostic traditions portray the physical body as a flawed prison, built to confine people and limit their access to knowledge.
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Some Gnostic sects divided people into those ruled by matter, those with a soul, and an enlightened spiritual elite.
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For Gnostics, the deeper problem was not ordinary moral failure but lacking the knowledge needed to understand the universe.
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Early Christian Gnostics believed that the physical universe was not created by the supreme, loving God, but rather by an ignorant, deeply flawed…
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Agnosticism, coined in the 19th century, is uncertainty about whether ultimate truths can be known. Early Gnosticism, by contrast, claimed access to secret…
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Some mystical Islamic traditions held that analytical reason could obstruct direct experience of spiritual truth.
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Some ancient Gnostic groups recast condemned figures as liberators, arguing that they were trying to free humanity from ignorance about the cosmos.
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