JESSENIC VIEW ON GNOSIS (THIRTEEN POINTS OF ...

Jessenic View on Gnosis
nature to the one of material, and pure Light, while the other is pure Darkness. Thence, it is
necessary to investigate a little of the Gnostic idea about what God is.
3 – WHAT JESSENES, AS GNOSTICS, UNDERSTAND AND CONCEIVE
REGARDING DEITY.
To Gnosticism, God is hardly to be defined, for existing outside and separated from
human and Creation reality.
To Gnosis, The knowledge of God is that of the Unknowable, i.e. the one outside
Creation and that of nothing is substantial, whereas intellectual knowledge can reach nothing
but the substantial and tangible.
We see Gnosticism as a negative 6 philosophical elevated conception of Deity, which
reconciles monotheism and polytheism, theism and deism, dualism and monism.
Thereat, every noteworthy anti-Gnostic religious and philosophers, ignorantly and
wrathfully, could not acknowledge Gnosis as a great synthesis of all ‘collections of
knowledge on God, His relationship with Universe, Man, universic creatures, and that of the
later ones with God’.
Anti-Gnostics has always seen in this resolution of vastly conciliating Gnostic
concepts on God as a chaotic and stupid, insane and perilous way of religious syncretism.
They had been telling Gnostics have mingled in a very chaotic manner Neoplatonism,
Astrology and Eastern Mystery Religions, adding elements from Christian doctrine to that
already perplexing mixture, and attempted to offer this to First to Fourth century A. D. people
as saving and initiatory wisdom.
They have claimed ‘Christian Church’ has magnificently triumphed over them, even in
first great council, named Council of Nicaea, extraordinarily repeating the feat in many other
councils, until exterminating the Gnostic plague from the ranks of ‘church’.
However, we should face the problem of Gnosticism emergence in the bosom of first
Christian communities in a philosophically sensible and righteous way, then we will be
realizing the issue wherefrom the Gnostic doctrine was raised has revolved around the term ‘it
was created’.
The circle of Egyptian Jews connected, on the one hand to Essenism, and to Platonism
and Pythagoreanism from Greek philosophy on the other hand, has started a deep appreciation
of the Greek version of Hebrew Bible or Biblical Old Testament.
Such group has discerned in Greek rendition of Genesis two words different from each
other for God’s creative act; the first means ‘to create’ strictly speaking; the second is closer
6 Negative Conception on Deity: a philosophical method to define God by only saying everything He is not and
refusing to say what He is. Acting so, we will find God in a real situation which is not separated from and thus
transcendental to that of our mind, even though the mind being enlightened.
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