Gnostic cosmos & myth
Divine Spark
Also: inner light, spark of light
The hidden spiritual principle within the human being: the part that remembers, recognises and seeks return.
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Gnostic cosmos & myth
The basic grammar of Gnostic language: powers, worlds, divine depth, false creation, awakening and return.
Gnostic cosmos & myth
Hylic
Also: material person, hylikos
A term used in some Gnostic systems for a person identified primarily with matter, appetite, surface perception or the lower conditions of existence.
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Pneumatic, Hylic and Psychic
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Pneuma
Also: spirit, breath, divine breath
Spirit, breath or divine spark. In Gnostic anthropology, pneuma often names the deepest spiritual principle within the human being.
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Pneumatic
Also: spiritual person, pneumatikos
The spiritual person, or the aspect of the human being rooted in pneuma. The pneumatic is oriented toward recognition, return and direct knowledge of source.
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Pneumatic, Hylic and Psychic
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Gnostic cosmos & myth
Psychic
Also: soul-level, psychikos
In some Gnostic classifications, the psychic person lives at the level of soul, belief, moral struggle and inner division between the merely material and the fully spiritual.
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Pneumatic, Hylic and Psychic
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Gnostic cosmos & myth
Three Natures
Also: three races, three kinds
The Gnostic typology of hylic, psychic and pneumatic humanity. It describes modes of orientation rather than a simple social ranking.
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Pneumatic, Hylic and Psychic
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Death, rebirth & liberation
Terms for reincarnation, memory, post-mortem passage, soul-trap theory, ascent and freedom from the wheel of return.
Death, rebirth & liberation
Pneumatic Recycling
Also: soul recycling
A ZenithEye phrase for the feared recycling of the spiritual spark through bodies, roles, traumas and forgetting.
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Soul Trap Machinery
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