ABSTRACT
As Scholasticism from its nature as the philosophy of the Church corresponded to the conditions under which the world had to fulfil the aims of the Church, and repeated the individual phases of that condition. Now that one of the elements in scholasticism succeeds in again freeing itself from the other, the antagonism between Gnosticism and Neo-Platonism, in the adjustment of which the patristic philosophy had consisted, will again to a certain extent repeat itself. The anti-scholastic character is common to Gnostics and Neo-Platonists, the followers of divine wisdom or Theosophists on the one hand, and the followers of secular wisdom or Cosmosophists on the other. It announces its points of contact especially among the earliest exhibitors of these tendencies, while among those who belong to the period of their culmination, how forgotten of the world are the followers of divine wisdom, and how nearly do the followers of secular wisdom verge on being forgotten of God!.
