"As I said. You know nothing of Gnostic Christian beliefs.” Not sure who posted that as the quotation software appears to have confused sources but not to worry.
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It may be true someone knows nothing of Gnostic Christian beliefs but it's very difficult to know anything about then with total certainty.
We can detect some minimal doctrine but the writings we have are so opaque they often make The Book of Revelations read like a recipe book in comparison. To add to the difficulty we have the added problem of the eternal argument of which texts actually constitute a valid part of the ‘Gnostic gospels’ ( if we can even call them that.)
On the other hand a reading of the avialable texts, and significantly Rome’s reasons for rejecting them, shines a very dark light on the Roman Church and it’s struggle for political power.
Below I’ve copies a small excerpt from The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit ( Translated Marvin Meyer .Publ’ Folio Society London MMVIII) 52.3-54.11
The two Coptic versions of the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit are copies of independent translations of basically the same Greek text, both copies are heavily damaged, the one in CodexIV more than the one in Codex III, but enough survives in them to reconstruct about 90 percent of the text.
Partners and Attendants for the Luminaries
Partners for the attendants appeared by the will and good pleasure of the Father.
Memory, for the first, great Gamaliel,
love, for the second, great Gabriel,
peace, for the third, great Samblo,
life eternal for the fourth, great Abrasax.
Thus were the five realms of Eight completed, forty in all, as inexplicable power.
Thus great Self-Generated Word and the expression of the fullness of the Four Luminaries offered praise to
the Great invisible Unameable Virgin Spirit
the male virgin,
the great realm of Doxomedon,
the thrones in them,
the powers around them,
glories, authorities, and powers,
the triple-male Child,
the male virgin Youel,
Esphech, [54] master of glory and [child] of the child,
the crown of its glory,
all the Fullness,
all the glories that are there,
the infinite fullnesses and the unnameable realms
that they may call upon the Father of the fourth, along with the incorruptible generation, and call the seed of the Father the seed of great Seth.
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The punctuation and structure alone may appear stange but I’ve carefully copied it from Meyer’s translation as published by the Folio Society.