2000, 123). To arrive at the peak of ascension to the deity, one had to be in tune with his/her soul, psyche, and body, and one day, that soul will depart to its place of birth.
             In 1945, an Egyptian peasant found Gnostic writings near Nag Hammadi from the fourth and fifth centuries. These surviving Gnostic texts had been translated when Gnosticism spread to Egypt in the late second and third centuries. Such texts were the Gospel of Mary and the Gospel of Thomas. Gnosticism is an esoteric religious movement that flourished during the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD and presented a major challenge to orthodox Christianity. With varied beliefs, Gnostics were a group of Christians who were identified as contradictory and heretical by the orthodox groups. Most Gnostic sects professed Christianity, but their beliefs sharply diverged from those of the majority of Christians in the early church. Gnostics used terminology from existing religions to illustrate their great idea of the essential evil of this present existence and the duty to escape it by the help of magic spells and a superhuman Savior. Gnosticism promised a secret knowledge of t
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