Where Nothing seems to be

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Hermann Kunh

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docility, restriction and formalism because of their own petty personal interests, - and telling them to get lost.
And these are only a few examples of distortions.
Gnosticism ? Some people might say that what the ancient text contains is Gnosticism. - But I utterly disagree with this opinion.
Originally a 'Gnostic' ('knower' in Greek language) was someone in command of a very special knowledge, who directly perceived the Grand Awareness underlying all physical experience, and who knew such insight to be accessible to everyone at all times.
Yet during the second century AD 'Gnosticism' became an artificial classification, became a label the orthodox fraction used to first categorize the expansive, ecstatic community of people inspired by the original message of Jesus - to then destroy it.
Gnosticism - as it is defined today, - is merely a hazy image of what it originally was. This is because the only information about it - apart from the Nag Hammadi scrolls - stems exclusively from documentation written by those who actually eradicated it (Irenaeus, Tertullian etc.). How reliable would you consider information about the resistance movement against a dictator, if it relied only on documents written by the police that actually annihilated this rising.
No, this text is not about lifeless, scholarly, footnoteridden Gnosticism, this text carries a long forgotten,