Sophia (Koinē Greek: Σοφíα "Wisdom", Coptic: ⲧⲥⲟⲫⲓⲁ "the Sophia") is a major theme, along with Knowledge (γνῶσις gnosis, Coptic: ⲧⲥⲱⲟⲩⲛ tsōwn), among...
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Gnosis is the common Greek noun for knowledge (γνῶσις, gnōsis, f.). The term was used among various Hellenistic religions and philosophies in the Greco-Roman...
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Religion in Antiquity. Cambridge University Press. The Sophia of Jesus Christ, translation by Douglas M. Parrott, at the Gnosis Archive PBS Article v t e...
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Pistis Sophia (Koinē Greek: Πίστις Σοφία) is a Gnostic text discovered in 1773, possibly written between the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. The existing manuscript...
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Gnosticism (redirect from Sophia mythos)
Consequentially, Gnosis often refers to knowledge based on personal experience or perception.[citation needed] In a religious context, gnosis is mystical or...
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Valentinianism (section Gnosis)
think that gnosis is in themselves. Through the excellent seed that is to be found in them, they are by nature redeemed, and their gnosis is as far removed...
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achieved through Gnosis, described as "an inner 'knowingness,' a change of consciousness." Gnosticism is grounded in the experience of Gnosis, which is the...
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Barbelo (section Pistis Sophia)
creation within the divine sphere (save, crucially, that of the lowest aeon Sophia) occurs through her coaction with God. The text describes her thus: This...
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Books of Jeu (redirect from The Gnosis of the Invisible God)
both the male apostles and his female disciples, and the secret knowledge (gnosis) revealed in these conversations. The date of the Bruce Codex, which contains...
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Archon (Gnosticism) (section Pistis Sophia)
which a soul must reach by gnosis to escape the dominion of the archons. This place is thought of as the abode of Sophia (Wisdom) and Barbelo, also called...
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