The gnosis which subjected religion to a critical examination awoke in proportion as religious life from generation to generation lost its warmth and spontaneity.
Footnote 672: The fact that Clement appeals in support of the Gnosisto an esoteric tradition (Strom.
We are therefore justified in regarding this history of salvation approved by the Church, as well as the theological propositions of Irenæus and Tertullian generally, as a Gnosis "toned down" and reconciled with Monotheism.
This also applies to Origen's Christian Gnosis or scientific dogmatic, which is simply the metaphysics of the age.
The Gnosis neutralises everything connected with empiric history; and if this does not everywhere hold good with regard to the actual occurrence of facts, it is at least invariably the case in respect to their significance.
The Gnosis is formally a philosophy of revelation, that is a Scripture theology,[700] and materially a cosmological speculation.
Pauline Gnosis of the death on the cross are amalgamated with the Gnosis of the incarnation; see especially 18.
The relation of faith and theologicalGnosis was fixed by Irenæus to the effect that the latter is simply a continuation of the former.
The Gnostics caused the Gnosis to be proscribed by the Christians, and the official Sanctuary was closed against the high initiation.
Gnosis of Carpocrates consists of one Deity and spirits ruling Earth, 562-m.
Gnosis expresses the idea of cognizance by intuition, 771-m.
This gnosis is perceptible in the Epistle to the Hebrews, but kept exquisitely within the limit of propriety.
The Epistle to the Hebrews is the only instance of gnosisin the canon: it was written evidently by some apostolical man before the destruction of the Temple, and probably at Alexandria.
This gnosis doubtless began its operation early, and reached a climax towards the fourth century; but then it had ceased to be creative, and had become wildly analytical.
The Gospel of Peter did not apparently possess the gnosis in such a highly evolved form as this," but works on the same lines.
The writer is, therefore, drawing on the details of prophecy, as suggested by the current testimonies against the Jews, and most likely on a written gnosis involving these testimonies.
Is there any trace of the gnosis of the two goats in Peter?
Let us bless heaven that the patriarch of the Gnosis has selected the former.
Meanwhile, the widowed Gnosisilluminates its Ichabod in the cryptic quartiers of Paris, Lyons, and so forth.
And Jesus said, It is the rock on which man builds himself; it is the gnosis of the aught and of the naught, of falsehood and of truth.
And we must formulate the gnosis of the Empire of the soul, which rests on seven postulates.
In these respects Cerinthus is the proper link between the incipient gnosis of the Colossian heretics and the mature gnosis of the second century.
Though Christian gnosis is the completion of gnosis, yet the Christian element in gnosis is not so essential as that gnosis cannot still be gnosis even without this element.
Though the nomenclature is somewhat different, I cannot refrain from quoting a striking passage from a Gnostic scripture to give the reader some idea of the lofty region of thought to which the Gnosis accustomed its disciples.
For it is the gnosis of the Gnosis of the Ineffable in which I have spoken with you this day.
It is the key to the chief nomenclature of the Gnosis and the greatest terms of the Gospel.
Such illuminati were called by one tradition of the Christianized Gnosis the Race of Elxai, the Hidden Power or Holy Spirit, the Spouse of Iexai, the Hidden Lord or Logos.
But the mystic Gnosis connoted more than is covered by the word knowledge: it claimed to be the wisdom of the ancients, and to disclose the ideal value lying behind the letter of all mysteries, myths, and religious ordinances.
And his pupil Origen writes of 'the popular, irrational faith' which leads to what he calls physical Christianity, based upon the gospel history, as opposed to the spiritual Christianity conferred by the Gnosis of Wisdom.
Gnosis and Theosophy tell of the eternal nature of this essential being, and of its reincarnation.
This thought-life of the soul, which is gradually widened into a life of spiritual being, is designated by the Gnosis and by Theosophy as meditation (contemplative thought).
According to the teaching of some Manichaeans, it was the primal man who disseminated the true gnosis in the character of Christ.
The Gnosisof which they profess themselves adherents is a personification, the aeon and mediator "knowledge of life" (see below).
Yet true science should not be held responsible for this, except in so far as its material is used to constitute the substance of the pseudo-gnosis which surrounds it.
Of these general expressions or conclusions I may state a few here, as apposite to our present subject, and as showing how little of real support the facts of the earth's history give to the pseudo-gnosis of monistic evolution.
The Fourth Gospel contains, according to Baur, a Christian gnosis parallel to the gnosis which was more and more repudiated by the Church as heresy.
By means of the Gnosis which he taught men’s souls are redeemed, while their bodies perish.
Their special task was the construction of a true ecclesiastical gnosis over against the false heretical gnosis, and so the most celebrated teachers of this school have not escaped the charge of unevangelical speculative tendencies.
In the Pseudo-Clementine scheme of doctrine, this Ebionitic Gnosis was carried out in detail and wrought up into a comprehensive and richly developed system.
In consequence of the work of the Ano-Soter the Pneumatical natures by means of the Gnosis taught by him, but the Psychical natures by means of Pistis, attain unto perfection after their kind.
The attitude of this heretical gnosis toward holy scripture was various.
It had learnt to put a Christian gnosis in the place of the heretical, a right and wholesome use of speculation and philosophy, of poetry and art, in place of their misuse, and thus enabled Christianity to realise its universal destination.
The Gnosis of the =Ophites=, described by Irenæus, etc.
The multiform Ophite Gnosis is in general characterized by fantastic combinations of Syro-Chaldaic myths and Biblical history with Greek mythology, philosophy and mysteriosophy.
Clement declares that the Gnosis "imparted and revealed by the Son of God, is wisdom.
His the inspiration that kept alight the Gnosis in the Church, until the superincumbent mass of ignorance became so great that even His breath could not fan the flame sufficiently to prevent its extinguishment.
And the Gnosis itself is that which has descended by transmission to a few, having been imparted unwritten by the Apostles.
But the Pauline gnosis has neither been simply identified with the Gospel by Paul himself (1 Cor.
The Gnosis is free from the rationalistic interest in the sense of natural religion.
The theology of Ignatius is the most advanced, in so far as he, opposing the Gnostics, brings the facts of salvation into the foreground, and directs his Gnosis not so much to the Old Testament as to the history of Christ.
But in the Valentinian assumption that the common Christians as psychical occupy an intermediate stage, and that they are saved by faith, we have a compromise which completely lowered the Gnosis to a scholastic doctrine within Christendom.
Finally, it should be noted that theGnosis always made a distinction between the supreme God and Christ, but that, from the religious position, it had no reason for emphasising that distinction.
Koffmane (Die Gnosisnach ihrer Tendenz und Organisation, 1881) to have strongly emphasised the mystery character of Gnosis, and in connection with that, its practical aims.
He destroys the works of Satan (generation, eating of flesh), and delivers the men who have within them a spark of light The Gnosis of Cerdo was much coarser.
Gnosis starts from the great problem of this world, but occupies itself with a higher world, and does not wish to be an exact philosophy, but a philosophy of religion.
They present themselves to us on the soil of the earliest Christianity, in the speculations of those Jewish Christian teachers who are opposed in the Epistle to the Colossians, and in the Gnosis of Cerinthus (see above, p.
Moreover Gnosticism, of which Alexandria was the chief focus, had raised the question of the unity and nature of the Godhead, and professed a falsegnosis as the perfection of religion.
The Gnostic therefore required neither hierarchy nor priesthood, since the soul of this system was the gnosis of the individual.
Through the whole century the false Gnosis afflicted her.
The Gnosis and all subsequent Christian mysticism represent the effort, in some way or other, to lay hold of that God, and to apprehend Him directly in the soul.
A brilliant account of the development of the Gnosis is given in G.
Gnostic Fragments recovered from the Polemical Writings of the Church Fathers; the Gnosis in the Uncanonical Acts.
May be summed up as an extraordinary clear exposition of the Gnosis of Saints and the Sages of philosophic Christianity.
From that moment Beethoven began to go back, and now I feel towards him much as I did when I first heard his work, except, of course, that I see a gnosis in him of which as a young man I knew nothing.
Yet next morning in the Times I saw this able, heartless failure, compact of gnosis as much as any one pleases but without one spark of either true pathos or true humour, called "the crowning achievement of dramatic music.
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