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RED JASPER GNOSTIC INTAGLIO - TAHER.002
Origin: Egypt
Circa: 100
BC
to 400
AD
Dimensions:
1.24" (3.1cm) high
x 1.07" (2.7cm) wide
Collection: Gnostic Arts
Style: Gnostic
$8,000.00
Location: United States
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Part of a series on
Gnosticism
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Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: ???st???? gnostikos,
"having knowledge", from ???s?? gnosis, knowledge)
is a modern name for a variety of ancient religious ideas
and systems, originating in Jewish-Christian milieux in
the first and second century AD. These systems
believed that the material world is created by an
emanation of the highest God, trapping the divine
spark within the human body. This divine spark could
be liberated by gnosis. Some of the core teachings
include the following:
All matter is evil, and the non-material, spirit-realm is
good.
There is an unknowable God, who gave rise to many
lesser spirit beings called Aeons.
The creator of the (material) universe is not the
supreme god, but an inferior spirit.
Gnosticism does not deal with "sin", only ignorance.
To achieve salvation, one needs to get in touch with
secret knowledge.
The Gnostic ideas and systems flourished in the
Mediterranean world in the second century AD, in
conjunction with and influenced by the early Christian
movements and Middle Platonism. After the second
century, a decline set in, but Gnosticism persisted
throughout the centuries as an undercurrent of
Western culture, remanifesting with the Renaissance as
Western esotericism, taking prominence with modern
spirituality.[citation needed] In the Persian Empire,
Gnosticism spread as far as China with Manicheism,
while Mandaeism is still alive in Iraq.
A major question in scholarly research is the
qualification of Gnosticism, based on the study of its
texts, as either an interreligious phenomenon or as an
independent religion
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