Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE--with earlier antecedents and later flourishings--whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience.
Only in the past fifty years has it.
For example, some Gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and father, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine.
Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought.
Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE--with earlier antecedents and later flourishings--whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience