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This introduction to Gnosis by Christoph Markschies combines great clarity with immense learning. In his Introduction, Markschies defines the term Gnosis and its relationship to ‘Gnosticism’, indicating why Gnosis is preferable and sketches out the main problems. He then treats the sources, both those in the church fathers and heresiologists, and the more recent Nag Hammadi finds. He goes on to...

other divine forces with a lower status have arisen from the combination of wisdom and power, until all in all 365 heavens full of such beings have been completed, matching the number of the days of the year (Refutation I, 24, 3). The ruler of the last heaven is the ‘God of the Jews’, who is opposed by the other rulers. They have created the world and evidently also human beings. In this situation the supreme God has ‘sent his mind, which is called Christ, to free those who believe in him from the
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