List of Gnostic sects

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The following is a list of sects involved in Gnosticism:

Ancient

Unclassified Christian Gnosticism

Cerdonians
- Marcionism
  - Apelliacos
  - Lucianists^[6]
Colorbasians
Dositheans (could be offshoot of Simonianism or proto-Gnostic)
Justinians
Simonians
- Menandrians^[7]

Others

Abelonians^[8]
Agapetae
Alogians
Angelici^[9]
Antitactae
Aquarii
Archontics
Ascodroutes
Barbeliotae
Borborites
- Coddians (also called Koddians) ^[10]
- Levitics (also called Levitici)^[11]
- Phibionites^[12]
- Stratiotici
Cainites
Carpocratians
Cerinthians
- Adamites (also called Adamians)
- Marcellianas
Cleobians^[13]
Docetae
Elcesaites
Encratites
- Apotactics (also called Apostolics)
- Severians
Marcosians
Messalians
Nicolaism
Ophites
- Naassenes
- Perates
Priscillianism
Quintillians, Montanist sect that may have come under Gnostic influence
Secundians^[14]
Seleucians

Middle Ages

Athinganoi
Bagnolians
Bogomils^[15]
Bosnian Church
Cathars^[16]
Novgorodians - the owners of the Novgorod Codex; it is likely that the owners of the codex were dualistic like the Bogomils
Paulicianism (However the dualism of Paulicianism is not certain)^[17]
Picards (Neo-Adamites)
Tondrakians

Modern era

Mandaeism^[18]

Neo-Gnostic

Anthroposophy^{[citation needed]}
The Church of St Mary & St John^[19]
Ecclesia Gnostica
Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
Ecclesia Gnostica Mysteriorum
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia
Eglise Gnostique
Gnostic Society
Holy Order of Mans (Quasi-Gnostic)^{[citation needed]}
Johannite Church^{[citation needed]}
Liberal Catholic Union^[20]
Martinism
Muckers^{[citation needed]}
Neo-Luciferian Church
Order of the Nazorean Essenes (influenced by Gnosticism)^[21]
Rosicrucianism
Samael Aun Weor
Society of Novus Spiritus
Theosophy
Angelici Christian Church

Footnotes

^ 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