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Gnosticism
The features which most gnostic systems share are 1) spirit-matter dualism, with matter regarded as evil; 2) a creation understood as botched, not effected by the supreme God but by a lower "demiurge"; and 3) the existence of an elite group, the "spirituals" (pneumatikoi), who possess a divine spark which longs to be released from the body and return to heaven. This deliverance was to be accomplished through the gnosis offered by the sect.
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Glossary definitions provided courtesy of Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY,(All Rights reserved) from "An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, A User Friendly Reference for Episcopalians," Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum, editors.
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