The restoration of the entire creation to a state of perfect holiness. Like the alchemists who came after, the gnostics were concerned with much more than merely personal salvation or self-realization.

Meaning salvation and restoration through the reception of the Holy Spirit, Jesus. The term is used by Heracleon in reference to "fruit of eternal life or because it (Gnosis), is itself eternal life". It was used by Origen differently, as if he meant the term to connote a communal Anastasis. "Origen teaches the "apokatastasis", the final restoration of all intelligent creatures to friendship with God". (New Advent. See also; Anastasis.)