Gnosticism

Cluster of 1st–4th century mystical movements teaching that the material world was made by a flawed creator (the Demiurge), that humans contain a spark of the true God, and that salvation comes through gnosis — recognizing this captivity and waking from it.

From gnōsis — knowledge.

• Gnosis
• Demiurge
• Pleroma
• Sophia
• Sufism