List of Gnostic sects

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Syrian-Egyptian

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* Marcionism
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* Perates
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Abrahamic

* Druze
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Codices

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Influenced by

* Merkabah mysticism
* Apocalyptic literature
* Messiah
* Philo
* Middle Platonism
* John the Baptist
* Early Christianity
* Paul
* Paul and Gnosticism
* Christology
* Docetism
* Wisdom (personification)

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* Neoplatonism and Gnosticism
* Western esotericism
* Perennial philosophy
* Esoteric Christianity
* Theosophy
* Carl Jung
* Gnosticism in modern times

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The following is a list of sects involved in Gnosticism:

## Contents

* 1 Ancient
* 1.1 Proto-Gnosticism
* 1.2 Judean-Israelite Gnosticism
* 1.3 Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
* 1.4 Persian Gnosticism
* 1.5 Unclassified Christian Gnosticism
* 1.6 Others
* 2 Middle Ages
* 3 Modern era
* 3.1 Neo-Gnostic
* 4 Footnotes
* 5 References

## Ancient

### Proto-Gnosticism

* Thomasines

### Judean-Israelite Gnosticism

* Elkesaites
* Kentaeans[1]
* Mandaeism[2]
* Samaritan Baptist sects

### Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism

* Bardesanites
* Basilidians
* Hermeticism
* Satornilians[3]
* Sethians
* Valesians
* Valentinianism
* Heracleonites[4]
* Ptolemaeans[5]

### Persian Gnosticism

* Manichaeism
* Al-Dayhuri's Sect
* Albanenses
* Astati
* Audianism
* Shinang's Sect

### Unclassified Christian Gnosticism

* Cerdonians
* Marcionism
* Apelliacos
* Lucianists[6]
* Colorbasians
* Dositheans (could be offshoot of Simonianism or proto-Gnostic)
* Justinians
* Simonians
* Menandrians[7]

### Others

* Abelonians[8]
* Agapetae
* Alogians
* Angelici[9]
* Antitactae
* Aquarii
* Archontics
* Ascodroutes
* Barbeliotae
* Borborites
* Coddians (also called Koddians) [10]
* Levitics (also called Levitici)[11]
* Phibionites[12]
* Stratiotici
* Cainites
* Carpocratians
* Cerinthians
* Adamites (also called Adamians)
* Marcellianas
* Cleobians[13]
* Docetae
* Elcesaites
* Encratites
* Apotactics (also called Apostolics)
* Severians
* Marcosians
* Messalians
* Nicolaism
* Ophites
* Naassenes
* Perates
* Priscillianism
* Quintillians, Montanist sect that may have come under Gnostic influence
* Secundians[14]
* Seleucians

## Middle Ages

* Athinganoi
* Bagnolians
* Bogomils[15]
* Bosnian Church
* Cathars[16]
* Black Brotherhood
* Credentes
* Pasagians
* Pataria
* Novgorodians - the owners of the Novgorod Codex; it is likely that the owners of the codex were dualistic like the Bogomils
* Paulicianism (However the dualism of Paulicianism is not certain)[17]
* Picards (Neo-Adamites)
* Tondrakians

## Modern era

* Mandaeism[18]

### Neo-Gnostic

Main article: Religion:Gnosticism in modern times

* The Church of St Mary & St John[19]
* Ecclesia Gnostica
* Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
* Ecclesia Gnostica Mysteriorum
* Ecclesia Pistis Sophia
* Eglise Gnostique
* Gnostic Society
* Holy Order of Mans (Quasi-Gnostic)[citation needed]
* Johannite Church[citation needed]
* Liberal Catholic Union[20]
* Martinism
* Neo-Luciferian Church
* Order of the Nazorean Essenes (influenced by Gnosticism)[21]
* Rosicrucianism
* Samael Aun Weor
* Society of Novus Spiritus
* Theosophy
* Angelici Christian Church

## Footnotes

1. ↑ van Bladel, Kevin (2017). From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes. Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004339460. ISBN 978-90-04-33943-9. https://brill.com/view/title/34389.
2. ↑ GÜNDÜZ, ŞINASI. The Knowledge of Life. The Origins and Early History of the Mandaeans and Their Relation to the Sabians of the Qurʾān and to the Harranians. Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press on behalf of the University of Manchester, 1999. P.5
3. ↑ The followers of the gnostic Satornilus. See Against Satornilus by Epiphanius
4. ↑ See Against the Heracleonites by Epiphanius
5. ↑ See Against the Ptolemaeans by Epiphanius
6. ↑ See Against the Lucianists by Epiphanius
7. ↑ The followers of Menander, who led a schism in Simonianism. See Against Menander by Epiphanius
8. ↑ See Abelites - Jewish Encyclopedia
9. ↑ See Against the Angelics by Epiphanius for a more detailed description.
10. ↑ Apparently another name for the Borborites. Epiphanius also references them as a different sect in the Panarion. He mentions them three times in the book. See here [1].
11. ↑ A gnostic sect mentioned in the Panarion, Against the Nicolaitans, 2,1 They be identified as the Borborites.
12. ↑ Another name for the Gnostics according to Epiphanius. It may be a different Gnostic sect altogether. See Proem I, 5,4
13. ↑ Blunt. Pg. 109. "Cleobians"
14. ↑ See Against the Secundians by Epiphanius
15. ↑ Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (2013) (in en). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199659623.
16. ↑ Wakefield, Walter L.; Evans, Austin P. (1991) (in en). Heresies of the High Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 159–173.
17. ↑ Conybeare, Frederick. The Key of Truth. A Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia.
18. ↑ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.
19. ↑ See Churchsmsj.org for more information
20. ↑ See [2] for more information
21. ↑ See Essenes.com for more information

## References

* Blunt, John Henry. Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Rivingtons. 1874.

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