Gnosticism

Gnosticism was an extreme transcendental form of religion whose beginnings is not quite known but is usually tied to the Christianity era. Gnostics were "people who knew", and their knowledge at once constituted them as a superior class of beings. They believed salvation would come through knowledge and they were the chosen few that would ascend to God and fuse with him.
Gnosticism was more transcendental than Orthodox Christianity in several ways. First of all, Gnostics believed God was not of this earth; a supernatural being not made of matter. The Orthodox view considered Jesus as c…