I don't know. I don't care. Do you know? God knows.
Gnosticism, a Christian Heresy, is The Form of Something. It is a particular mysticism that was dressed up in Christianity, dressed up in Catharism, dressed up in a lot of different ways. It has a form. Regardless of how it is dressed up, it is still the same thing.
Gnosticism, a Christian Heresy, it may have come out of Pagan Occult Mystery Schools. Greece and Rome, it had Pagan Mystery Schools that well-to-do people would send their children to for social promotion and blessings. Egypt and Babylon had Pagan Mystery Schools. India and China and Japan have had Pagan Mystery Schools. In early Christianity, Christians were fighting against pagan mystics. Some pagan mystics, they dressed up their mysticism in Christianity, like a wolf in sheep's clothing. Fast forward to the 1950's, and America was occupying Japan. American Occultists, they found things in common with Eastern Occultists. In Japanese anime there has been a lot of Western Occultism like in "Evangelion," where there is a conflict around a Lilith, and Kabbalah was directly cited as a source.
Anyone in any Occultism was headed to the same place, that is, a Form of Gnosticism, a Christian Heresy, where someone was seeking hidden knowledge, and seeking knowledge for knowledge's sake. That may be like Adam and Eve with the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
There is a Christian Gnosis that is associated with Theosis. The meek before God shall inherit The Earth. Someone was penitent, like in Indiana Jones. Their soul is moved to a place where they do not know, and they do not care. They were seeking God with all their heart and soul and strength and mind. They found God. Faith is a journey. Along that journey may be Sanctification.
A Christian Gnosis may happen in a personal relationship with God. A man is working to develop The Power of the Tongue, and say no false things. He works out all lies, half truths, exaggerations, and so on. He works to make his speech exact. A man works to align himself with the prophets of the Bible. Jesus Christ came fulfilling the words of the Prophets. In seeking God, developing the Power of the Tongue, and saying no false things, he may become of One Mind with various Christian Holy Men. (Philippians 2:2) This is where someone may find a Christian Gnosis.
Example:
Husband and wife are planning to go out to eat for lunch. Husband turns to his wife and asks, "Where would you like to eat today?"
"I don't know." she says.
She says I don't know a lot whenever her husband asks her about where she would like to eat. It may be she was testing him, even if it was subconscious. She would like him to make good decisions.
But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God. (1 Corinthians 11:3)
When it comes to matters of wisdom and understanding, I don't know. I don't know like Socrates. Does that make a man wise? Someone who knew, he may have been suffering from Hubris, or needed false things to be true. In personal relationship with God, I don't know may be wise. The Holy Ghost is a teacher and a councilor. A man needs to learn to listen.
There is a Christian Gnosis where a man may have come closer to being where the prophets of the Bible were with God. Towards getting there, a man needs to align himself. I would point out that before there was a New Testament, someone like Apostle Paul taught out of the Book of Isaiah a lot, showing people how Jesus had been fulfilling prophecy.
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