Christian Gnosis
Bogomilism is a form of Christian
Gnosis and not a form of Gnostic Christianity. You have to be aware that
Gnosis is much older than Christianity.
Christianity is only a form
of Gnosis and not the opposite. It isn't Gnostic teaching that deviates
from Christianity but it is the actual modern Christianity the stream that
deviated (see the Councils of Nicea (325) and Constantinople (381)) from
the original teaching of Jesus (original Gnosis)! All big world religions
had Gnostic roots (inspired by God) in their beginning.
True Christians were persecuted
during the medieval history (the first Christian
heretic - Jesus - is older than the official Christianity) and
it would also be the same today.
In the history of mankind
Gnosis appeared in a few forms:
-Christian
Gnosis (Essenes, Manihees, Cathares, Brotherhoods of Saint Grail, Templar's
and Rosy Cross ...)
-Chines
Gnosis (Taoism ...)
-Islam
Gnosis (Sufis ...)
-Hindu,
Buddhistic, Jewish, Egyptian Gnosis, etc.