The Gnostic Valentinus had said, “Perfect redemption is the cognition itself of the ineffable greatness: for since through ignoranceQuote rsie above the flesh came about the defect . . . the whole system springing from ignorance is dissolved in Gnosis.

Therefore Gnosis is the redemption of the inner man; and it is not of the body, for the body is corruptible; nor is it psychical, for even the soul is a product of the defect and it is a lodging to the spirit: pneumatic (spiritual) therefore also must be redemption itself.

Through Gnosis, then, is redeemed the inner, spiritual man: so that to us suffices the Gnosis of universal being: and this is the true redemption. (Adv. Haer. I. 21,4)

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