Who were the Gnostics?

People don’t realise that, 2,000 years ago, there was a religion on this planet called Gnosticism, which was the biggest religion/ spirituality on earth at the time, was vying with Hinduism. You could go take a university course on the history of religions now and wouldn’t even find a mention of Gnosticism. The Nag Hammadi texts provide a description for what the Gnostics believed. Gnostic is a Greek word meaning knowledge – gnosis.
The Gnostics believe that liberation can only be achieved by knowledge, by the consumption and evaluation of reality through knowledge. The library at Alexandria was run by Gnostics and they were the first people to collect scrolls and books and assemble this information. Their culture spread throughout Europe and the Middle East. This was long before the advent of the Western religions outside of Judaism which was mostly concentrated in Israel. Gnostics preached that there was an invasion that occurred about 3,600 BC and, about 1,600 years before the Nag Hammadi texts were buried, they wrote that this invasion was like a virus and, in fact, they were hard pressed to describe it.
The beings that were invading were called Archons. These Archons had the ability to duplicate reality, to fool us. They were jealous of us because we have an essence of some kind, a soul, that they don’t possess, and the Nag Hammadi texts describe the Archons. One looks like a reptile and the other looks like an unformed baby or a foetus. It is partially living and partially non-living and has grey skin and dark, unmoving eyes.

They say Archons are duplicating reality so that when we buy into it, when we come to believe that the duplicated, false state reality is the real reality – mankind won't even realize they have been enslaved due to their own ignorance and lack of knowledge.
You can thank Rome for stealing the gnostic knowledge when they stole and burned the library of Alexandria.

Who are we to know what's behind the veil.

What are your thoughts on this?😉