Gnosticism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Other concepts=== Other Gnostic concepts are:{{sfn|Pagels|1975}} * [[sarkic]] β earthly, hidebound, ignorant, uninitiated. The lowest level of human thought; the fleshly, instinctive level of thinking. * hylic β lowest order of the three types of human. Unable to be saved since their thinking is entirely material, incapable of understanding the gnosis. * psychic β "soulful", partially initiated. Matter-dwelling spirits * [[Pneumatic (Gnosticism)|pneumatic]] β "spiritual", fully initiated, immaterial souls escaping the doom of the material world via gnosis. * [[kenoma]] β the visible or manifest cosmos, "lower" than the pleroma * [[charisma]] β gift, or energy, bestowed by pneumatics through oral teaching and personal encounters * [[logos]] β the divine ordering principle of the cosmos; personified as Christ. See also [[Odic force]]. * [[Hypostasis (religion)|hypostasis]] β literally "that which stands beneath" the inner reality, emanation (appearance) of God, known to psychics * [[ousia]] β essence of God, known to [[Pneumatic (Gnosticism)|pneumatics]]. Specific individual things or being. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page