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, …showed first 75 words of 274 total…

…showed last 75 words of 274 total…beliefs in Christianity. One of the declarations that came about was that Christ was fully human, a cosmological trait, and divine as well. In addition, they developed a collection of written scriptures from which to follow and a priest caste to interpret the scriptures. Gnostics didn't have written scripture and although they had priests of a sort, they all taught what they themselves believed to be true and were not in agreement in their teachings.