>>7755675Are you familiar with The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear, a documentary featuring haunting music by both John Carpenter and Brian Eno? The reason I bring this up is because there is no such thing as "Gnosticism", not now or in the past.
"Gnosticism" is a nightmare conjured up by Patristic writers to serve as political propaganda. The whole project was to build and eventually enforce an orthodoxy through fear.
Scholars of religion, from the Victorian era to today, especially under the influence of Theosophical organizations, began promoting the idea of "Gnosticism". It's based on a phantasm, though. Entirely based on counterfactuals, to try and save face for Jesus (whose real name was Yeshua ben Josef, which Anglicized would be Joshua the son of Joseph). All of this is an attempt to rescue Christianity from how it has actually been practiced for the last 1,600 years. From the terrors of Emperor Theodosius (the epitome of a religiously inspired psychopath) to today.
