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Alchemy vs Gnosticism - What's the difference?

alchemy | gnosticism |

As nouns the difference between alchemy and gnosticism

is that alchemy is (label) the ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry while gnosticism is gnosticism.

alchemy

English

(wikipedia alchemy)

Noun

  • (label) The ancient search for a universal panacea, and of the philosopher's stone, that eventually developed into chemistry.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy .}}
  • (label) The causing of any sort of mysterious sudden transmutation.
  • Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.

    • Derived terms

    * alchemical * alchemise and alchemize * alchemist * alchemistic * alchemistical

    See also

    * elixir of life * philosophers' stone

    References

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    gnosticism

    English

    (wikipedia Gnosticism)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A wide variety of Jewish and early Christian sects having an interest in gnosis, or divine knowledge and generally holding the belief that there is a god greater than the Demiurge, or the creator of the world.