ABSTRACT

Christianity arose from the Jewish religion, the stoa, the Greek philosophy developed by hellenism, the gnosis and the mystery cult of those days, and with that development, Christianity became an essential factor in the evolution of the noetic system. When they became Christians, the pagans found a way appropriate to their nature, to guarantee their spirit a freedom in relation to the animal systems, made possible by European culture and science. In the eyes of the pious, the people lived in sin. Such pious people founded societies in which they would conduct a pure life closer to God. They developed new ways of inner adaptation to guarantee the dominance of the noetic system, ways which became more obvious to Jesus' disciples and became later on the foundation for Christianity. The dominance of the noetic system gained a different character as a result of the denial of the previous systems, a feature more prominent in the Paulinian foundation of Christianity.