Terms

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NOSTIC TERMS

Sarkic

earthly, hidebound, ignorant, uninitiated. The lowest level of human thought the fleshly, instinctive level of thinking.

Hylic

lowest order of the three types of human. Unable to be saved since their thinking is entirely material, incapable of understanding the gnosis.

Psychic

"soulful," partially initiated. Matter-dwelling spirits

Pneumatic

"spiritual," fully initiated. immaterial, souls. Escaping the doom of the material world via gnosis

Aeon

one of various levels of reality

Archon

one of various powers in the cosmos

Pleroma

fulfillment, the higher reality of archetypes (related to Plato's realm of Ideas). The region of light.

Kenoma

the visible or manifest cosmos, "lower" than the pleroma

Aharisma

gift, or energy, bestowed by pneumatics through oral teaching and personal encounters

Sophia

"wisdom," worldly understanding; personified as Lady Wisdom, the syzygy of Christ

Logos

The logos is the divine ordering principle of the cosmos; personified as Christ. See also Odic force

Hypostasis

Literally "that which stands beneath" the inner reality, emanation (appearance) of God, known to psychics

Ousia

essence of God, known to pneumatics. Specific individual things or being

Gnosis

"knowledge," direct insight into God attained by pneumatics

Syzygy

a divine active-passive, male-female pair of aeons, complementary to one another rather than oppositional

Demiurge

an entity (usually seen as evil) responsible for the creation of the physical universe and the physical aspect of humanity. The creator God

Theos

The Greek term for god. Used by Christian Gnostics for the monad

Emanation

The Supreme Light or Consciousness descends through a series of stages, gradations, worlds or hypostases, becoming progressively more material and embodied. In time it will turn around to return to the One (epistrophe), retracing its steps through spiritual knowledge and contemplation. [wiki]

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