A major question in scholarly research is the qualification of Gnosticism, based on the study of its texts, as either an inter-religious phenomenon or as an independent religion.

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I want to say in advance of this episode that if you are someone that does not like perspectives on religion this is not a series for you. As a Landmark 400 episode I did want to share with you something of personal importance.

I think that a God didn’t make man to stare back up at him seeking approval, but that God created a universe for his creation to understand. Restricting your focus by eliminating other beliefs is to shut out God all together. If there is a single truth, I believe it’s humanity’s duty to find, to collect, to use in our every day lives. So I don’t see Gnosticism as a religion but a way of interrupting a bigger picture. I believe in the end, It will take all views to survive. I think when the time comes every perspective will be validated in the truth of awareness. Wether you believe in God, a God or no god. Man is on this earth to survive. And to thrive. Understanding the world around him is his purpose as a way to survive and thrive.

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Gnosticism is a modern name for a variety of ancient religious ideas and systems, originating in Jewish-Christian milieus in the first and second century AD. Based on their readings of the Torah and other Biblical writings.These systems believed that the material world is created by an emanation of the highest God, trapping the Divine spark within the human body. This Divine spark could be liberated by gnosis.

The Gnostic ideas and systems flourished in the Mediterranean world in the second century AD, in conjunction with and influenced by the early Christian movements and Middle Platonism. After the Second Century, a decline set in, but Gnosticism persisted throughout the centuries as an undercurrent of western culture, remanifested with the Renaissance as Western esotericism, taking prominence with modern spirituality. In the Persian Empire, Gnosticism spread as far as China with Manicheism, while Mandaeism is still alive in Iraq.

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