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/nˈɑstɪsˌɪzəm/ Listen

noun

Gnosticism n. The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... is of Avaloki. One almost might consider that this setting forth of the primordial Buddha was real Monotheism; but on looking more carefully one sees that it is as little real Monotheism as was possible in the system of Gnosticism. Indeed the force of evolution could not stop here; for, since even this primordial Buddha rested upon Ossa of hypothesis piled upon Pelion of hypothesis, there must be other hypotheses yet to come, and so the Tantra system, a compound of old Brahminism ...

— The Religions of Japan - From the Dawn of History to the Era of Meiji • William Elliot Griffis

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... while a date between 70 and 75 seems no less possible. Of the reasons for a date in one of the earlier decades of the 2nd century, as argued by the Tubingen school and its heirs, several are now untenable. Among these are the supposed traces of 2nd-century Gnosticism and "hierarchical'' ideas of organization; but especially the argument from the relation of the Roman state to the Christians, which Ramsay has reversed and turned into proof of an origin prior to Pliny's ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

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