... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.
It is interesting to see that Mary Magdalene is in line with these Gnostic principles, where she focuses on the Divine Consciousness and the internal Divine Spark, in everyone, as well as in nature.