Number 10 Can of Worms open again: got your spoon?
The Gnostics of early Christian times painted a picture of a deeply stratified, hierarchical, patriarchal Reality of the Divine, with the Great Invisible Spirit at the apex, and a beatific beaurocracy beneath it, and well above the world of physical matter. God and angels, lords and civil servants, and finally, the governed, who are not expected to understand. Consider that time of the world when this was first being put into words and images that a human being could make sense of: Humankind... Sign in to see full entry.