Gnosticism is the belief that human beings contain a piece of God (the highest good or a divine spark) within themselves, which has fallen from the immaterial world into the bodies of humans. All physical matter is subject to decay, rotting, and death.Those bodies and the material world, created by an inferior being, are therefore evil. More @Wikipedia
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