Gnostic vs. Hylic

Gnosticadjective

knowing; wise; shrewd

Gnosticadjective

Knowing; wise; shrewd.

Gnosticadjective

Of or pertaining to Gnosticism or its adherents; as, the Gnostic heresy.

Gnosticnoun

One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are derived from the Deity by successive emanations, which they called Eons.

Gnosticnoun

an advocate of gnosticism

Gnosticadjective

of or relating to Gnosticism;

Gnosticadjective

possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things

Hylicadjective

Having to do with, or of the nature of, matter.

Hylicnoun

(gnosticism) The basest type of man in the gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping; a person focused on neither intellectual (psychic) nor spiritual (pneumatic) reality.

Hylicadjective

Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.