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No, its about achieving salvation through knowledge, and the belief that the Material World is inherently evil in its creation and is the product of a malign deity who wants to enslave men. That alone is bad enough considering it makes the Creator the villain, but there are even worse forms of it running around than the vanilla version, culminating in Kabbala. Around the time of the Early Church, there was a bizarre offshoot of Gnosticism that grew out of Antinomianism (the belief that Christ abolished the Moral Law in addition to the Levitical practices, and therefore following the Moral Law is no longer required for Salvation, which sadly re-emerged in Protestantism despite Luther himself condemning it), which misinterprets scripture by claiming the God of the OT is evil and the God of the NT is good, and therefore salvation can only be obtained by transgressing the Law of the OT. Its overtly Satanic and replaces the Repentance taught by Christ with the Libertinism taught by Lucifer. Sabbatean-Frankism, which has basically replaced all jewish mysticism, is essentially extreme Antinomian Gnosticism in everything except name. Its also rather interesting that Talmudic Judaism basically appeared on the stage in the same time frame all forms of Gnosticism were seemingly in decline, so I cant help but wonder if the Gnostics shape-shifted into what we call jews today in order to escape rightful persecution from Christians for their abject degeneracy.