The revealer figure, for instance, the divine wisdom that many gnostics saw as an important figure in the history of salvation.

Let's look at a few representative Gnostic movements in history. With the rise of Christianity, ancient esoteric ideas developed into Gnostic syncretism.

The beliefs of the Gnostics, an all-but-forgotten 2nd Century Christian sect, might not seem to have much relevance to the modern world – especially the imagined futures of some of our favorite ...

Gnosticism was a religious and philosophical movement that taught the existence of secret knowledge, writes Gregory Elder.

This paper explores the complex connections between the Platonic and Gnostic currents in Late Antiquity and attempts to explain how these ideas could have been transmitted to later 'Gnostic' groups in ...

Never did I imagine that I would one day be writing about the intersection between gnosticism and canola oil, but it seems that my hand has been forced, so here we are. Permit me to explain. I was ...