by Francine Culdaut · Ediciones Akal · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788446006084
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This book explores the emergence of Gnosticism in the 4th century AD as an attempt to create a new mythology that merges Judeo-Christian content with Neoplatonic and Neopythagorean speculations. Gnosticism is presented as a revealed knowledge, deposited in the human soul, accessible through Gnostic doctrine and rituals. It is not considered a faith, but the knowledge of the supreme truth that grants salvation. Christianity developed in opposition to Gnosticism, although influenced by it. The main Gnostic doctrine is the inherent evil of the world, created by an evil god (the demiurge), which implies the existence of two gods: a benevolent one, unrelated to creation, and an evil one, creator of the world. Gnosis allows the original souls to return to their original state. Gnosticism maintains a non-vicarious relationship with Christianity, being a doctrinally independent mythology.
