The Stratiotici were a gnostic sect, a subgroup of the Borborites. Little else is known about them besides what the Church Fathers wrote on them.
Description The sect were a sub-group of the Borborians,R. Bruce Elder - of which the Coddians, Stratiotici and the Phibiomites had together a family connection to Gnostics.review by Dr. Joseph S. Maresca of The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion by Jean Doresse New York : MJF Books, 1986. Retrieved 2011-October-21 Kurt Rudolph - GNOSIS: The Nature and History of Gnosticism - 412 pages, Continuum International Publishing Group, 1 Jun 1998 quoting Epiphanius of Salamis - ©T & T Clark Ltd 1983 Retrieved 2012-01-14 The name deriving from stratos which in the Greek language meant army,Douglas Harper - Behindthename.com Retrieved 21 October 2011 or soldierly (soldiers of (Walker 1983)) as a translation from the Latin.University of Notre Dame - Vita, Dulcedo, Spes - archive - stratioticus] & archive - soldierly (English to Latin)] RETRIEVED 2012-01-14 The names attributed to sects were possibly only those given by their enemies. Little is known of the sect as rituals were practised in secrecy, scriptures were unwritten by the practitioners, resulting on the necessary reliance of accounts of their practice in the writings of the holy church fathers.p.158 of Gnosticism - Its History and Influence - Benjamin Walker 1983 THE AQUARIAN PRESS RETRIEVED 2012-01-14
Insight The sect and other self defining gnostics were the subject of criticism by the Church Fathers, these finding evidence of heresy and blasphemy caused by a corruption of the truth of Christian doctrine. This the fathers may have attributed to the former weight of their ancestral sin or the result of persons with unclean spirits.
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