Mandaeism; The Last Gnostic Religion? Posted: April 29, 2025 | Last updated: April 29, 2025 The Mandaeans are one of the world’s oldest surviving religious groups, with roots in ancient Gnostic ...

We’re actually heading back to Mondstadt this patch, seeing what’s up with Albedo and the Knights of Favonius, allowing us to take a break from the Natlan exploration that dropped last patch.

This Gnostic emphasis on hidden knowledge resonated deeply with Kabbalistic thought. Kabbalah, like Gnosticism, teaches that the true nature of God and the universe is hidden beneath layers of ...

However, the Alawite faith’s roots go further back, incorporating Christian Gnostic, Neoplatonic and Graeco-Roman influences. The Alawites often trace their ancestry to the Mardaites, a group of ...

Nor, given the oppressive concreteness of the previous metaphysical regime, was it surprising that the countervailing temptation would be toward an all-spiritualizing Gnosticism.

Like with all of the other commandments, Sefirat HaOmer is loaded with Kabbalistic significance. Without the Kabbalah, we would not know what we were doing when we wave the lulav or blow the ...

Rabbi Levi Yitzchok’s writings reveal deep Kabbalistic insights that simultaneously touch all four layers of Torah interpretation: Peshat, Remez, Drush, and Sod. A particularly striking example ...

An examination of the contested category known as 'gnosticism,' the texts found at Nag Hammadi, and the challenges posed by this material to our expectations as we attempt to understand developments ...

This collection includes a number of “Gospel”-type documents written for Gnostic Christian communities. The Gospel of Philip, for example, states that “the companion (koinōnos) of the ...

An ancient depiction of a naked woman hung on the wall of my father’s study. Skeletal, stupefied, and wildly bedheaded, she contemplated distances across time and space, as saints and mystics do.

“First of all, the others were much more specific. They were either about the Gnostic Gospels or Christian antisemitism or sex and politics. This one came after I was teaching about how ...

"Over the years, with the discovery of the gospel of Mary in the late 19th century and the gnostic gospels in the middle of the 20th century — as well as painstaking biblical scholarship — a ...