One of the many occult texts presented as Gospels, Letters, Acts and Revelations, the authors of which were and are unknown, coming to their vast majority from the current of Gnosticism. From one of these currents comes the "Gospel of Judas", the Cainites. It was a branch of a branch that obviously came from a larger and stronger current. The action of the Cainites began at the end of the 2nd century AD. century. They honored Cain, from whom they took their name, as an instrument of Wisdom and an enemy of the Creator God. Kane was thought to have been born with a higher power than the one born to Abel's brother. Judas Iscariot was given special honors because he - they believed - knew the whole truth about what was happening within the group of people of Jesus Christ. They advocated that Judas Iscariot be the benefactor of the human race. With his betrayal he thwarted the plans of Jesus Christ to corrupt and falsify the truth. They celebrated the betrayal of Judas and as a Bible they had the Gospel of Judas. The bishop of Lyon, Ireneos, the bishop of Cyprus, Epiphanius, and Tertullian provide information about the Kainites. All the above are recorded in the "History of Structures" by Andreas Theodorou. It is not new and has been analyzed many times in the past by scientists. But it is worth describing the action and I believe in some currents of Gnosticism in the Christian era. Some of these currents caused heresies to develop during the Byzantine era, causing problems for the officially recognized Church. Alexandros Kariotoglou, PhD in Religious Studies and Assistant Professor at the University of Thessaly, described the main cognitive currents that developed in the 2nd - 3rd century. Currents that, although lost over time, have been the occasion for the interest of the world and scientists to be renewed.
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What are the main groups of knowledge presented?
"The first Gnostic is Cyrus from Egypt, who lived in the 2nd century.
He, the Bishop of Rome Hippolytus informs us, was an educated man and said that there is a higher and a lower power. It separated the world of matter and spirit. He denied the virgin birth of Christ, denied the divinity of Christ, and said that Christ had received grace from the higher god so that he could speak and preach. He accepted the Resurrection in his own way. It was also occupied by millennial views. After Cyrus, various groups of Gnostic and Judeo-Christian sects were created in the 2nd century. Christianity spread in the area from which it sprang. The first Christians were Jews who could not distinguish things. They had a long tradition behind them, they could not clear the pure message of Christianity
* Such groups were the Nazarenes, the Euboeans who accepted Christ as a man born of Joseph's union with Mary. When he was baptized, the Holy Spirit came and gave him some special powers. They paid attention to the Mosaic Law and considered the work of Christ to be the work of a prophet and a teacher. They believed that Christ was a reincarnation.
* Another group was the Elkesians, who took their name from Elkesaeus, who was their leader. They taught about God, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The son was identified with a male angel and the holy spirit with a female angel. The son was not identified with Jesus but with a man. The center of their teaching was the "new baptism" as they called it, in the name of the supreme god and the great king, the son, and during the baptism they had seven witnesses who were in a book written by Elkesaios. the leaders of these groups, he wrote something. According to St. Epiphanius, the teaching of heresy was occult, that is, they used astrology or magic. Characteristic of the time is comparability. In other words, these groups were mixing different ideas.
* Gnostics have emerged in Syria, such as Simon the Magician, according to the New Testament. He wanted to redeem the power of Christ from the Apostles. He was a cultured man, originally from Palestine, and he interpreted the texts allegorically.
* Menandros, in Syria, used magic. He believed that the world was a creation of angels. He also had a special baptism for the fans.
* Satorneilos, another Gnostic, came from Antioch in Syria. He mixed Eastern currents with Christianity. He was also talking about an unknown god who created angels. He said that man was created by angels and that the god of the Jews was very bad, that there was Satan and demons. He distinguished people into good or bad by nature and that Christ appeared as Savior. It forbade marriage and sex.
* In Egypt, Basil, who came from Syria, had a system that was a combination of Gnosticism on a scientific basis of the time and the idea that the world was created by a god who was an impersonal force. Christ had a human form. He was a man united by a spirit sent by impersonal power.
* Isidore fought against the followers of King. He said that Vassiliadis abolished human freedom. But because it overemphasized freedom, it ended in impunity. Moral life was indifferent to him.
* Practical immorality was the basis for Karpocrates, who developed his own system that was a patchwork of various elements. He received from Santornelos the hatred for the god of the Jews and against the law, from Basilides his theoretical principles and combined the theories of Platonism for the memory of the world of ideas. He said that Christ was a simple man, but because his soul was very pure, he kept the memory in him, which is why God the Father gave him the strength to escape from the evil angels.
* Valentine, in Egypt, borrowed from Platonism that the terrestrial world is a copy of the celestial world of ideas. From the pantheistic philosophy of the Indians he also got the idea that material existence must be due to the fall and degeneration of a higher world of existence. His followers were divided into two. On the one hand the eastern school and on the other the Italian school.
* Among all these, the Kainites, a branch of the branch. All these offshoots had weird names. Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon, mentions three such offshoots: the Cainites, the Barbelites and the Ofites.
A little magic, a little sex and a little bit of Plato…
ALL TEAMS
What are the main groups of knowledge presented?
"The first Gnostic is Cyrus from Egypt, who lived in the 2nd century.
He, the Bishop of Rome Hippolytus informs us, was an educated man and said that there is a higher and a lower power. It separated the world of matter and spirit. He denied the virgin birth of Christ, denied the divinity of Christ, and said that Christ had received grace from the higher god so that he could speak and preach. He accepted the Resurrection in his own way. It was also occupied by millennial views. After Cyrus, various groups of Gnostic and Judeo-Christian sects were created in the 2nd century. Christianity spread in the area from which it sprang. The first Christians were Jews who could not distinguish things. They had a long tradition behind them, they could not clear the pure message of Christianity
* Such groups were the Nazarenes, the Euboeans who accepted Christ as a man born of Joseph's union with Mary. When he was baptized, the Holy Spirit came and gave him some special powers. They paid attention to the Mosaic Law and considered the work of Christ to be the work of a prophet and a teacher. They believed that Christ was a reincarnation.
* Another group was the Elkesians, who took their name from Elkesaeus, who was their leader. They taught about God, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The son was identified with a male angel and the holy spirit with a female angel. The son was not identified with Jesus but with a man. The center of their teaching was the "new baptism" as they called it, in the name of the supreme god and the great king, the son, and during the baptism they had seven witnesses who were in a book written by Elkesaios. the leaders of these groups, he wrote something. According to St. Epiphanius, the teaching of heresy was occult, that is, they used astrology or magic. Characteristic of the time is comparability. In other words, these groups were mixing different ideas.
* Gnostics have emerged in Syria, such as Simon the Magician, according to the New Testament. He wanted to redeem the power of Christ from the Apostles. He was a cultured man, originally from Palestine, and he interpreted the texts allegorically.
* Menandros, in Syria, used magic. He believed that the world was a creation of angels. He also had a special baptism for the fans.
* Satorneilos, another Gnostic, came from Antioch in Syria. He mixed Eastern currents with Christianity. He was also talking about an unknown god who created angels. He said that man was created by angels and that the god of the Jews was very bad, that there was Satan and demons. He distinguished people into good or bad by nature and that Christ appeared as Savior. It forbade marriage and sex.
* In Egypt, Basil, who came from Syria, had a system that was a combination of Gnosticism on a scientific basis of the time and the idea that the world was created by a god who was an impersonal force. Christ had a human form. He was a man united by a spirit sent by impersonal power.
* Isidore fought against the followers of King. He said that Vassiliadis abolished human freedom. But because it overemphasized freedom, it ended in impunity. Moral life was indifferent to him.
* Practical immorality was the basis for Karpocrates, who developed his own system that was a patchwork of various elements. He received from Santornelos the hatred for the god of the Jews and against the law, from Basilides his theoretical principles and combined the theories of Platonism for the memory of the world of ideas. He said that Christ was a simple man, but because his soul was very pure, he kept the memory in him, which is why God the Father gave him the strength to escape from the evil angels.
* Valentine, in Egypt, borrowed from Platonism that the terrestrial world is a copy of the celestial world of ideas. From the pantheistic philosophy of the Indians he also got the idea that material existence must be due to the fall and degeneration of a higher world of existence. His followers were divided into two. On the one hand the eastern school and on the other the Italian school.
* Among all these, the Kainites, a branch of the branch. All these offshoots had weird names. Saint Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon, mentions three such offshoots: the Cainites, the Barbelites and the Ofites.
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