When1: 120
When2: 200
Who: Gnostic
What: philosophic school
Where: Near East
Detail: School included Marcion, Apelles, Saturninus, Basilides, Carpocrates, Valentinus, and Bardesanes. Fallen angels create matter and physical world. Matter or Void is against God. Material world is battleground for good and evil spirits. Matter will evolve from incomplete and imperfect states to the perfect state of God {system of evolution, Gnostic}. Indefinite states can divide into opposites, for example material and spiritual, and then reorder themselves.
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