Hylic
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Hylic ( ancient Greek ὑλικός hylikós "materially, physically," by ὕλη Hyle "wood, [construction] Substance") and or Sarkiker (of σάρξ sarx "flesh body"), such as with Paul in 1 Cor 3.3 EU called one in some Gnostic schools of early Christianity , especially in the teachings of Valentinus , those people who were completely addicted to matter and earthly existence and thus lived in eternal ignorance of the salvation of the soul , they had no sense of the spiritual.
The world model of the Valentian-Gnostic myth and that of its followers divided people into groups. For this he used a three-part anthropological structure. Depending on the predominant essential component in humans, a distinction was made between "hylics", "psychics" and "pneumatics". With modern ideas one could interpret the hylic as a material human being. Psychics, people of the soul, were in their opinion people who are capable of faith and moral insight, but not of knowledge of God (the “spiritual principle” ). For hylics there could be no redemption , which the pneumatics (the “spiritual”) were directly involved and for the psychics (the “spiritual”) was at least promised by appropriate instruction. The Valentinians ascribed access to the highest knowledge and direct knowledge of God exclusively to the pneumatics (spirit people).
Irenaeus of Lyon ( church father and bishop, † around 200) reports:
“So there are three kinds of people: spiritual, material and spiritual, like Cain, Abel and Seth; from these they no longer demonstrate the three natures for the individual but for the whole species. The material species simply perishes; The soul, if it chooses the better part, will rest in the middle, but if it chooses the worse, it will be done according to its wishes; But the spiritual, which the Achamoth implanted into the souls of the righteous from former times until now, is brought up and nourished here below because it was released under age, but later honored to be perfected by being handed over as a bride to the angels of the Savior while their souls will necessarily rest forever in the center place with the demiurge. But the souls of the soul also fall into two divisions: some are naturally good, the others evil. Only the good are able to receive the seed, the naturally evil will never receive it. "
Not all people, as spiritual pneumatics, are ripe for gnosis and its liberation. Some remain earthbound, materialistic hylics who only know their physical and material reality. Others lived largely from their psyche as psychics who have developed a sense for the spiritual and spiritual, but are not yet on the last level. The latter usually confuse the Demiurge with the True God and so they lack the feeling and idea of a spiritual world beyond their existence.
References and comments
- ↑ Christof W. Strüder: Paulus and the mind of Christ: Identity and decision-making from the middle of 1 Cor 1-4. Peeters Publishers, Leiden & Leuven 2006, ISBN 978-9-04291-653-1 , p. 319.
- ↑ Eugen Heinrich Schmitt : The Gnosis. Foundations of the worldview of a nobler culture. BAND I., The Gnosis of Antiquity. Eugen Diederichs, Leipzig 1903, p. 230 PDF; 29.6 MB, 650 pages accessed from odysseetheater.org
- ↑ Claudia Losekam: The sin of the angels: the angel fall tradition in early Jewish and Gnostic texts. Narr Franke Attempto, Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-7720-8001-2 , p. 350.
- ↑ ancient Greek πνευμα pneuma "breath, wind, breath"
- ↑ Kurt Rudolph : The Gnosis. Essence and history of a religion of late antiquity , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2005 ISBN 3-525-52110-3 , p. 100 f.
- ↑ Johanna Brankaer: The Gnosis. Texts and commentary , Marix Verlag, Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8653-9954-0 , p. 68.
- ↑ Quoted from the translation by E. Klebba, in the Library of the Church Fathers , 1st row, Volume 3. Munich 1912 (digitized edition)