Psychic (ancient)

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According to the doctrine of Gnosis - especially the Valentinians - a member of the middle class of people who is capable of faith and moral insight, but not of the knowledge of God, is called a psychic .

The name is derived from ancient Greek ψυχικὀς psychikos . In late Greek (ie in Aristotle and writers after 320 BC) this adjective had the meaning "belonging to the soul", "soul", "spiritual". In Late Greek and in the New Testament psychikos means "belonging to earthly life", "earthly", "sensual"; the term psychic corresponds to this latter meaning .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Eduard Benseler et al .: Greek-German school dictionary . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1911, p. 1000
  2. ↑ Brockhaus: The great foreign dictionary. Leipzig 2001, p. 1105
  3. ↑ Irenaeus , Against Heresies 1,7,5