# Gnosticism · The Canon · The Atlas · The Congregation of Tomorrow

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Gnosticism
The knowers
c.1st – c.5th c. CE (revivals later) · Esoteric / Occult · Extinct · Egypt, Syria, Rome, Gaul
IV. THE CLASSICAL & IMPERIAL WORLD — c.200 BCE – 500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.50–100 CE Proto-gnostic currents; some New Testament letters appear to argue against them.
- c.140 CE Valentinus teaches at Rome.
- c.144 CE Marcion expelled from the Roman church for rejecting the Old Testament and its God; he assembles the first Christian canon, which forces the orthodox to assemble theirs.
- c.180 CE Irenaeus writes Against Heresies.
- c.250–400 CE Gnostic groups decline under imperial Christian pressure.
- 1945 CE Nag Hammadi discovery, which allowed Gnostics to be read in their own words for the first time in sixteen centuries.
- 1979 Elaine Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels brings the material to a mass audience.
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