Gnosticism

Gnosticism describes a collection of ancient religions which taught that people should shun the material world created by the demiurge and embrace the spiritual world.

The Gnostic Gospels
The Nag Hammadi Library
The Gnostic Bible
The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity
Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism – An Accessible Introduction to the Ancient Religion of Late Antiquity
The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78
Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Gospel
The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead
The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus
The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism
The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions by (Anchor Bible Reference Library)
The Gnostics
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Philip K. Dick
In other words, the universe itself—and the Mind behind it—is insane. Therefore someone in touch with reality is, by definition, in touch with the insane: infused by the irrational. In essence, Fat monitored his own mind and found it defective. He then, by the use of that mind, monitored outer reality, that which is called the macrocosm. He found it defective as well. As the Hermetic philosophers stipulated, the macrocosm and the microcosm mirror each other faithfully. Fat, using a defective ins ...more
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Robert M. Price
But if subjective pietism is not the real crux of this all-important Gospel, if it is instead belief in the plan of salvation, how are we not dealing with "salvation by (cognitive) works" and Gnosticism (salvation by special knowledge)? Fundamentalists hotly deny it, but isn't it finally a matter of believers in the right religion being saved and everyone else being disqualified? ...more
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