The origins of the Gnostic world view have been sought by scholars in the dualism of Iranian religion, the allegorical Idealism of the Middle Platonic philosophers, and the apocalypticism of certain Jewish mystics.

• 诺斯替世界的起源可以从波斯宗教的二元论学者找到，寓言般的中期柏拉图哲学的理想主义和犹太宗教的启示论。