The Devil's Dictionary: Gnostics

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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GNOSTICS

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A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

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