REMOVED from Church History: Mystics who SHAPED Christianity

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Most Christians don’t learn anything about the earliest Christian history.
Those who do, typically learn a canned narrative telling you how the church of popes and martyrs won out against external enemies (called “pagans”) and internal enemies (called “heretics”).

It’s time to stop ignoring the creators of early Christianity. It’s time to stop
marginalizing figures whose life and thought is so helpful for developing an authentic and philosophically-informed spirituality today. It’s time to embrace the heretics as the true fathers and mothers of a spiritual assembly. If Jesus spoke to the poor and the outcast, he spoke to heretics.

What united these figures? One simple thing: gnosis. Gnosis is not
information, it is deep knowledge, redeeming knowledge, transformative
learning. Christians who preached secret knowledge were called gnostics. In some cases, they called themselves gnostics. In others, they were called gnostics by their enemies.

A gnostic is a knower—a person who takes faith and transmutes it into spiritual knowledge. They stated reasons for their faith, and spoke in terms that transcended normal rationality. They were not afraid to speak against the majority, or to be countercultural. In being disruptive and radical, they followed the pattern set by Jesus himself.

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Borborites Gospel of Mary Intro
00:02:52 - Epiphanius of Salamis Against the Nicolaitans
00:08:00 - Gnostics & Heretics
00:10:59 - Marcion of Sinope
00:13:00 - Marcion's Validity
00:16:39 - Marcionite Ditheism
00:20:43 - Marcion's Heresy
00:23:50 - Marcion in Context
00:29:38 - Marcion goes to Rome
00:33:15 - Simon Magus: Ultimate Heretic
00:37:17 - Great Declaration
00:39:16 - Simon the Universalist
00:41:42 - Simon the Samaritan
00:45:00 - Carpocrates & Carpocrations
00:47:05 - Epiphanes
00:48:05 - On Justice
00:50:10 - Carpocration Jesus
00:52:19 - Marcellina
00:57:52 - Epiphanes' Apotheosis
00:58:55 - Secret Mark
01:00:31 - Naassenes
01:01:26 - Naassene Preacher Sermon
01:06:44 - Phyrgian Great Mother
01:09:08 - Who are the Naassenes?
01:14:18 - Mystery Cults
01:16:23 - Nag Hammadi Codices





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