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"Gnostic" (Gnose) is a term used to refer to a general phenomenon that one can discover manifestations through different periods of history, dating back to the first century, AD, until modern times, and "enlightenment" (gnosticisme) is a special phenomenon of the second century.

Considering the general phenomenon, Gnosticism (the common Greek word meaning knowledge) is an illusion of perfect knowledge, revealed, possessed and communicated by those who are initiated, with the ambition of giving a thorough explanation of the world, of the mystery of existence, based on the basis of duality (the opposition between the world of good and the world of evil), and thereby opening the way of salvation For spirituality, Gnosticism is not only a movement of salvation by knowledge, but from the perspective of the history of religions, the nature of enlightenment is a concept of a dualistic universe (dualime anticosmique): Knowledge and salvation is intrinsically alien to this wicked world, and its secret characteristics should also be noted, this characteristic turns Gnostic into one. The religion of those who have been initiated, and the content is often myth.

This phenomenon, a phenomenon both worrisome and attractive, can be said to have exploded into the second century. But for a long time, people only knew about Gnosticism through the Fathers' writings, including Irénée's work.Today with new discoveries, research has made great progress, especially the discovery of a Gnostic sect's library in Nag-Hammadi (Egypt, 1947): About 50 other works each other, including some works written in the second century, and are being published.

The first Gnostic tendencies appeared in the first century in a geographic setting that stretched from Palestine to Asia Minor. These trends may have been present in the context of some New Testament writings. Then the sect formed and spread everywhere. In the second century, it spread to Alexandria to turn this place into the center of Gnosticism, especially of a "Christian" doctrine, claiming to be the true traditional depositor and master The most influential of this theory is Valantin. He spread his doctrine to the West. The main object that Irénée opposes is the Enlightenment of Valantin.Gnosticism sinks in the third century, and almost immediately, the Maniché faction rises to replace, this is the doctrine that the Fathers will have to fight back from the fourth century.

And a period of change in religion and culture, as in the early AD, the cause of successful propaganda sects could probably be attributed to the topics that Gnosticism developed in a way deep. The basic theme of Gnosticism is the insistence on the evil of the existence in this world. Gnosticism appears as an expression of unfortunate consciousness. This consciousness arose in the Gnostics' sense of a death, a exile, a deprivation against a lost heaven, compared to forgotten perfection. In this world, people feel lost, torn between good and evil, material and spiritual, soul and body, broken into two separate sexes, dispersed in time. People are nostalgic about being unique about the early childhood, a unique thing that only a new cosmic disaster can break down to produce this broken world. The salvation is at the exit of matter and all the dualities that it lays out, salvation is to escape and return to the perfect and united world of the spirit.

The way of salvation in "knowledge", this knowledge is both innate awareness of the status of this earthly spirit, and is the perfect enlightenment of knowledge, increasing the awareness above. Through knowledge, people are aware of their true nature as a spiritual being.Gnosticism is the spiritual return to yourself. Being self-aware, just like the proverb: "You know yourself". The initié is the one who attains this liberation knowledge and is thus saved. In others, the spirit is still sleeping, but the instruction can awaken it. In the end, the other "material people" are only made up of the elements of flesh, and will be destroyed without any cure.Thus, Gnostic Christians consider themselves as the Church of the perfect,

On the nature of this cosmic disaster, the future of this broken world, every strong denomination weaves on a completely mythical outline. It was from the hierarchy of beings that made up the world, a transformation happened that gave birth to a heterogeneous Creator, the author of this world. It is also from the world, a power has come to liberate the spiritual pieces by bringing knowledge. Here, like the Maniché doctrine, Gnosticism merges all the myths borrowed from very different religions, People have reasons to think that Gnostic Christians do not necessarily regain this myth. but it is not so that they avoid the radical destruction of the being and the role of Christ the Redeemer. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.1/6/2019.