“ ‘Hypatia eclipsed in argument every proponent of the Christian doctrines in Northern Egypt.‘ Her expertise in theology typified the Pagan intellectual class of Gnostics, gnostikoi, ‘those who understand divine matters, knowing as the gods know,‘ ………….
The word philosophy means ‘love (philo) and wisdom (sophia). To Gnostics, Sophia was a revered divinity, the goddess……….To the people of her time and setting, Hypatia would have been wisdom incarnate.â€
I was, I was getting all Terence Mckenna on you.
Well, as serious as I can be in this thread. In fairness, I only watched the first 5 mins of those videos because it m at work, I'll give them a look later and give you a more serious take on it.