The Ancient War Between Gnostics and Neoplatonists

The Gnostics were seen as a widely dangerous faith to the Abrahamic and Asian faiths. Yet their subversive ideas also brought the ire of Pagan dispensations, including Neoplatonism. Their conflict was rather symbiotic, and ultimately shaped not only modern Esoterica but modern orthodox religions. We explore what exactly made Plotinus and other philosophers so irate at the Sethian cosmic anarchy; as well as some of the latest scholarship on the usefulness of the term Gnosticism, the pre-Christian origins of