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Gnosticism in the Modern West

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What Is Gnosticism?

In hermeticism, the gnosis is that we are a spirit thing trapped in a living in a mundane, earthly, worldly thing. But the project is to actually transform and set it free through an elixir of life. That's a religious duty in hermeticism. You don't have that Gnosticism at all as an ancient mystery religion. There, the duty is to deny the world and the body to becoming usually increasingly ascetic to withdraw from the world. Although hermeticism also hates the body, but it loves the body,but it hates the body.

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