Many scholars would reserve the term gnostic in the most proper sense to the sectarians who taught this myth.
The term clearly indicates that the traditional way is the way of the consolidated majority of the community as against peripheral or "wayward" positions of sectarians, who by definition must be erroneous.
Thus, the military character of Mongol rule paved the way for the success of Chinese rebels, some of whom came from the upper class, while others were messianic sectarians who found followers among the exploited peasantry.
One man is uniquely placed to save Momentum from the sectarians who would throttle the enthusiasm and excitement of the young people who have been inspired in the last 18 months.
It's plain that part of his own motivation is a genuine love of food and indignation at seeing a great common blessing made the sparring ground of officious sectarians who frequently don't know what they're talking about.
"If God is one and His Message is also one and fundamentally indivisible, surely mankind should be one community," wrote the University of Chicago scholar Fazlur Rahman, explaining that the Koran condemned Jews and Christians -- but particularly Jews -- as sectarians who betrayed the universal nature of monotheistic truth.
"a hashish-eater, one addicted to hashish," both forms in Arabic being applied to the Ismaili sectarians, who used to intoxicate themselves with hashish or hemp, when preparing to dispatch some king or public man.
No need to go mountain climbing here - Dilijan's streets are steep hills of endless labyrinths that only rise higher and are dotted with once quaint, now rundown houses with patched, tiled roofs accented with balconies with wood-carved railings - Dilijan's signature architectural design introduced in the 19th century by Molokans, sectarians who settled in Dilijan from Russia.
They hadn't returned the fugitives -a group ofugitives -akillers who had taken refugroup Afghanistan.
Entire neighborhoods were sealed off by concrete blast walls, to protect residents from the sectarian killers who roamed the city.
