If you haven't figured out by now that you can't get the truth from Wikipedia for anything controversial, then you are both way out of your league and in the wrong forum.
Be a real researcher and read primary and best scholarly resources:
Voices of Gnosticism, Miguel Conner
The Gnostic Religion - The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity, Hans Jonas
The Secret History of the Gnostics, Andrew Phillip Smith
While some gnostic labelled sects indeed have features of neoplatonism, or parallel with myths of buddhism or hermeticism, that does NOT mean rhey are hermeTIC, neoplatoNIST or BuddhIST.
Or with that same logic Judaism and its bastard offshoots Christianity and Islam are just ripped-off Babylonian mystery control religions all worshipping the same false god moloch aka Jahweh aka Allah...
If you haven't figured out by now that you can't get the truth from Wikipedia for anything controversial, then you are both way out of your league and in the wrong forum.
Be a real researcher and read primary and best scholarly resources:
While some gnostic labelled sects indeed have features of neoplatonism, or parallel with myths of buddhism or hermeticism, that does NOT mean rhey are hermeTIC, neoplatoNIST or BuddhIST.
Or with that same logic Judaism and its bastard offshoots Christianity and Islam are just ripped-off Babylonian mystery control religions all worshipping the same false god moloch aka Jahweh aka Allah...