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  • Pertaining to the physical or material world; in Gnostic philosophy, describing the lowest order of humanity, understood as being wholly consumed by worldly existence and incapable of spiritual salvation.

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The Valentinians, and probably many other Gnostics also, distinguished between pneumatic, psychic and hylic.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Neil Buchanan

The first stage is that of the hylic or material intellect, a state of mere potentiality, like that of a child for writing, before he has ever put pen to paper.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various

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