'''Gnostic Noahites''', '''Sabian Hanifs''' or '''Hanif Sabians''' or '''Paulicians''' or '''proto-Maronites''' in the Roman Province of Tachkastan followed the Essene Jews from whom the Manicheans had seceded from them under the influence of Marcionism and Mandaeism. William St. Clair Tisdall prove that they preserved many Gnostic folktales about Jesus Christ such as for example::the History of the Nativity of Mary and the Saviour's Infancy.
=The Gentile Gnostic Question=
Gentile Gnosticism ([[Christian Gnosticism]]) like that of the Marcionites,, Mandaeans, and Manicheans presents a complex problem. A certain amount of Jewish Kabbalah found its way into 2nd century Christianity which completed what it didn't know in the most anti-Semitic ways because they lacked understanding concerning the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil and dumbed it down into the Tree of Gnosis. Everything else followed on from that one simple mistake.
