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gnostic
adjective as in discerning
adjective as in perceptive
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We also have the Gnostic Gospels, discovered in 1947 and adding a wealth of insights into early Christian thinking.
I have been unable to discover any gnostic gem with anything like a modern dragon on it.
He says these scandalous figures resemble those in the Gnostic churches.
Hence, on the other hand, the wild rebound into licentiousness which has sometimes characterized Gnostic or Manichaean sects.
The real root of the difficulty to Platonist as to Gnostic was his sharp antithesis of form as good and matter as evil.
This idea was undoubtedly suggested to him by the threefold division of mankind according to the Gnostic p. 265system.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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