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a mid-sentence shift of 34 chapters backwards through the cited text
She should be disciplined for this.
There are modern gnostics -- people who claim to be true believers.
Here is the bottom line of gnosticism: God is evil and has withheld "secret knowledge" from us that we need to find. That "secret knowledge" is often self-serving. Like when Allah told Mohammed how many wives he could have. In the ancient world it was a lot of stuff about permiscuous sex. Today it's often infused with politics.
Gnosticism is a conspiracy theory religion and "gnostic Christianity" is even worse in that it adds the church as an evil entity for "supressing" the "secret knowledge" of the gnostics. Gnosticism existed before Christianity without any trace of Judeo-Christian values or scripture. It is a parasitic religion, feeding off of the host body and it fed off of every religion, from Christianity to Zoroastrianism.
The only reason we know about it now is that it attached itself to Christianity and everyone who wants to believe that the Catholic Church has a basement full of secrets that it's hiding from the public (a Vatican Area 51) or just hates Catholics or Christians in general can point to some sort of "supression".
Here's the facts: The church fathers, part of a small group only a few generations removed from Paul and Peter, knew exactly what the second-century gnostic "Christians" were all about and none of the gnostic texts were ever under serious consideration at Nicea or elsewhere.