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The following is a list of sects involved in
Gnosticism :
Ancient
Proto-Gnosticism
Judean-Israelite Gnosticism
Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism
Persian Gnosticism
Unclassified Christian Gnosticism
Others
Middle Ages
Modern era
Neo-Gnostic
^ van Bladel, Kevin (2017).
From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes . Leiden: Brill.
doi :
10.1163/9789004339460 .
ISBN
978-90-04-33943-9 .
^ Gündüz, Şinasi (1994). "The Knowledge of Life: The Origins and Early History of the Mandaeans and Their Relation to the Sabians of the Qur'ān and to the Harranians". Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement . 3 . Oxford University Press: 5.
ISBN
0-19-922193-6 .
ISSN
0022-4480 .
^ The followers of the gnostic
Satornilus . See
Against Satornilus by Epiphanius
^ See
Against the Heracleonites by Epiphanius
^ See
Against the Ptolemaeans by Epiphanius
^ See
Against the Lucianists by Epiphanius
^ The followers of
Menander , who led a schism in Simonianism. See
Against Menander by Epiphanius
^ See
Abelites - Jewish Encyclopedia
^ See
Against the Angelics by Epiphanius for a more detailed description.
^ Apparently another name for the Borborites. Epiphanius also references them as a different sect in the Panarion. He mentions them three times in the book. See here
[1] .
^ A gnostic sect mentioned in the Panarion,
Against the Nicolaitans, 2,1 They be identified as the Borborites.
^ Another name for the Gnostics according to Epiphanius. It may be a different Gnostic sect altogether. See
Proem I, 5,4
^ Blunt. Pg. 109. "Cleobians"
^ See
Against the Secundians by Epiphanius
^ Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (2013). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press.
ISBN
9780199659623 .
^ Wakefield, Walter L.; Evans, Austin P. (1991). Heresies of the High Middle Ages . New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 159–173.
^ Conybeare, Frederick. The Key of Truth. A Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia .
^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people . New York: Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-515385-5 .
OCLC
65198443 .
^ See
Churchsmsj.org for more information
^ See
[2] for more information
^ See
Essenes.com for more information
References
Blunt, John Henry . Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Rivingtons. 1874.