In the first century AD, the Vatican was established.
Around the second century AD, Gnosticism appeared in the Mediterranean world. It initially stemmed from the Vatican but fundamentally differed in its perceptions.
The Vatican believed that the Saint Heir was God.
The Gnostics believed God was spirit, and the Saint Heir was nothing more than a fleshly tool for the spirit to reside in when descending to earth. Their faith was a dualistic worldview: the spiritual world and the material world.
This contradiction put the two sides in intense conflict from the start. The Gnostics despised the human body and the world they lived in. Their theories were influential, but there were few traces of their actual activities, mostly legends passed among the people.
