HIPPOLYTUS - ORIGINS OF GNOSTICISM
HIPPOLYTUS
GNOSTIC ORIGINS
THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHERS
Thales
Pythagoras
Empedokles
Herakelietos
Anixamandros
Anaximenes
Anaxagoras
Archielasos
Parmenides
Leukippos
Demokritos
Xenophanes
Exphantos
Hippon
ETHICAL PHILOSOPHERS
Sokrates
Plato
THE DIALECTICAL PHILOSOPHERS
Aristotle
Chrysippos
Zenon
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Epikouros
Pyronnon the academic
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the Brahmans
Indians
Druids
Egyptians
Persians
and Hesiod
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THE ORIGINAL STARTING POINT WAS a mixture of
doctrines from Greek wisdom
dogmas of the Greek philosophers
manufactured mysteries
doctrines of wandering astrologers
Thales the Milesian
and Pythagoras, who mixed together
Astronomy, Geometry, and Music
and who traveled to meet with and learn from Zaratas the Chaldean,
as well as Egyptian priests