Believing that certain mystical wisdom was the key to salvation, FTP, what was this early heresy whose names comes from the Greek for "knowing?"
Among the important writings of this religious group was the Letter to Flora  A large number of their writings were discovered in 1945 near Naj' Hammadi and include the Gospel of Truth which was attributed to one of their most important leaders, Valentinus, and the Gospel of Thomas.  Their cosmogony included a hierarchy of thirty Aeons one of whom, Sophia, formed the material world through her transgressions which was then shaped by the Demiurge.  Believing that certain mystical wisdom was the key to salvation, FTP, what was this early heresy whose names comes from the Greek for "knowing?"
Among the important writings of this religious group was the Letter to Flora  
Gnosticism