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It had a speculative monotheism, and taught under various names a mediator and saviour who was to come and enlighten men. This mediator was "Reason, " and in Jewish Gnosticism figures as "Wisdom, " or, in the Hellenistic Gnosticism, as "Sophia, " or the "Logos. " Thus men like Philo tried to reinterpret the ethical monotheism of Judaism into the language of this poetical mixture of religion and cosmic speculation. It sought to make real to men the fact that God was not the author of all man's m...isery and of the world's great darkness. It was an at- tempted defense of God against those who saw in man's misery an evidence that God 92 HISTORICAL SETTING was evil and not good, was darkness and not light. It tried to gather up into itself all the wild longings of human hearts baffled and perplexed and to still them by the promise of deliverance at last through mystic entrance into the cosmic process and by revelation of its most secret and hidden significance. Alas, we know Gnosticism, in most part, only from the works of its critics and often far from impartial antag- onists.
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It had a speculative monotheism, and taught under various names a mediator and saviour who was to come and enlighten men. This mediator was "Reason, " and in Jewish Gnosticism figures as "Wisdom, " or, in the Hellenistic Gnosticism, as "Sophia, " or the "Logos. " Thus men like Philo tried to reinterpret the ethical monotheism of Judaism into the language of this poetical mixture of religion and cosmic speculation. It sought to make real to men the fact that God was not the author of all man's m...isery and of the world's great darkness. It was an at- tempted defense of God against those who saw in man's misery an evidence that God 92 HISTORICAL SETTING was evil and not good, was darkness and not light. It tried to gather up into itself all the wild longings of human hearts baffled and perplexed and to still them by the promise of deliverance at last through mystic entrance into the cosmic process and by revelation of its most secret and hidden significance. Alas, we know Gnosticism, in most part, only from the works of its critics and often far from impartial antag- onists.
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