| 41. | According to gnostic tradition the demiurge created the world.
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| 42. | Gnostic gems with Abraxas also featured the seven rays.
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| 43. | Not a movement, but a " registered corporation " distributing gnostic information.
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| 44. | Valentinian Gnostics believe that Christ and Jesus were two separate beings temporarily united.
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| 45. | Some others are Gnostic, and some were what is called Jewish Christianity.
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| 46. | In particular, some gnostic systems feature a demiurge that abandoned the earth.
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| 47. | Gnostics thought the God of the Old Testament was not the true God.
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| 48. | This is more of an ancient gnostic teaching than a modern ethical one.
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| 49. | Subsequently, its use spread beyond the Gnostics.
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| 50. | On the whole, it would seem that Gnostic behaviour tended towards the ascetic.
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