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Gnosticism

//ˈnɑstəsɪzəm// noun

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Noun
  1. 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. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of Gnosticism. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches wordnet

Etymology

From Gnostic + -ism.

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