1. Gnosticism: Divergent Christianity
... and the fragment of divine essence derived from the True God, ignorance is cultivated, preventing countless humans from realizing gnosis. Although death releases the divine "spark" from a human, if sufficient gnosis has not been previously undertaken, the "spark" will be returned to the physical world. Gnostics did not seek salvation from sin, but rather from the ignorance of which sin is a consequence ... ...
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