Another thing that gnostics worried about was the relationship between the divine element and the human element in Jesus, and in some cases they seem to have made a similar sort of distinction ...

But some of the gnostics who wrote these gospels contradict this: self-knowledge is knowledge of God; the self and the divine are identical. Second, the "living Jesus" of these texts speaks of ...

In the case of Christian Gnosticism, this savior is Jesus, but not in the way that mainstream Christianity views him. Gnostics view Jesus as a figure who is a direct emanation of the Supreme Being ...