Гностицизм: чему учили его учителя, согласно Иринею и их собственным книгам

Gnosticism is the name scholars use for a set of early teachers who promised salvation through gnosis, a hidden knowledge. They show up most plainly among Christians of the second century, though where they first came from is still argued. In the picture many of them painted, the true God lives far beyond our world, lesser powers who never knew him built it, and Christ came down to stir a spark of the divine buried in human beings. For nearly…