Gabriel 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! ===Gnosticism=== The [[heresy|heretical]] Christian movement of [[Gnosticism]] paid special attention to angels as beings belonging to a pantheon of spiritual forces involved in the creation of the world. According to one ancient [[Gnostic texts|Gnostic manuscript]], the [[Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit]], Gabriel is a divine being and inhabitant of the [[Pleroma#Gnosticism|Pleroma]] who existed prior to the [[Demiurge#Gnosticism|Demiurge]].<ref>{{cite book |author=James M. Robinson |author-link=James M. Robinson |title=The Nag Hammadi Scriptures |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ebxHP6RPNTUC |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |year=2007 |orig-year=First published 1978 |chapter=The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit|isbn=9780060523787 }}</ref> 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