Doing so required the guidance of a teacher, and that, according to the Gnostics, was Christ's role.

要达到这一步，需要导师的指引，在诺斯替主义者眼里，基督便是这样的一位导师。

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The Gnostics “believed that there is an ultimate source of goodness, which they thought of as the divine mind, outside the physical universe.

诺斯替主义者相信“善有一种终极的源头，他们认为是一种神圣的思想，它处在物质世界之外。

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Now the word "acquainted" here means the Greek word here is gnosis,where we get the term Gnostics.

这里的“认识“这个词意思是,希腊语的“真知“，也就是“诺斯替“的来源。

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Like the Gnostics, the Mormons thought that the conventional texts had too much atonement and too little attainment.

NEWYORKER: I, Nephi

Soon enough, scholars came in and said that the Gnostics may indeed have thought those things but that such views could not serve as the foundation of the Church.

NEWYORKER: Rich Man, Poor Man

Like modern Gnostics relishing in some secret knowledge that surpasses the received wisdom of the ages, intellectuals proclaim the way forward.

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