Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Intuitive apprehension of spiritual truths, an esoteric form of knowledge sought by the Gnostics.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Science; knowledge; knowledge of the highest kind; specifically, mystical knowledge. See
Gnostic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Metaph.) The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.
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- noun Gnosticism An
immanent form ofknowledge ortranscendent insight , such as sought by theGnostics . - noun Act or process of knowing.
- noun occult An altered state of awareness in which the
will ismagically effective.
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- noun intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics
Etymologies
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Examples
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Along with Gnostics (from the Greek word "gnosis" meaning knowledge) they were persecuted, anathematised and systematically and progressively oppressed.
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Gnosticism—derived from gnosis, the Greek word for knowledge—grew alongside early Christianity.
Goddess Inspiration Oracle: Sophia | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr 2007
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Gnosticism—derived from gnosis, the Greek word for knowledge—grew alongside early Christianity.
2007 August | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr 2007
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Others, he noted, were quite sure they had attained a certain 'gnosis' - had, more or less successfully, solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble.
The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006
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They were quite sure they had attained a certain "gnosis" -- had, more or less successfully, solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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However, it can also be perverted to serve destructive ambitions - primarily by interlaced sanctions and votive misdirections that amplify the role of nationalistic religious bureaucracies - or substitute a placebo myth of lazy boy redemption that reduces the opportunity for acquired "gnosis" - a psycho active process that in fact rests upon placing everything in the balance of personal observation and allowing Occam to function within various self-reflective realms of personal consciousness.
Propeller Most Popular Stories Dionys 2009
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However, it can also be perverted to serve destructive ambitions - primarily by interlaced sanctions and votive misdirections that amplify the role of nationalistic religious bureaucracies - or substitute a placebo myth of lazy boy redemption that reduces the opportunity for acquired "gnosis" - a psycho active process that in fact rests upon placing everything in the balance of personal observation and allowing Occam to function within various self-reflective realms of personal consciousness.
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However, it can also be perverted to serve destructive ambitions - primarily by interlaced sanctions and votive misdirections that amplify the role of nationalistic religious bureaucracies - or substitute a placebo myth of lazy boy redemption that reduces the opportunity for acquired "gnosis" - a psycho active process that in fact rests upon placing everything in the balance of personal observation and allowing Occam to function within various self-reflective realms of personal consciousness.
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The objective trail commonly reflects the same imprint - or "blueprint" and therefore becomes religiously valid through actual praxis or applied "gnosis" - with the actual encounter typically amounting to the dissolution of personal ego states into a unitary sense of at-one-ment commonly described as harmonious alignment with a more expansive "meta reality".
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The objective trail commonly reflects the same imprint - or "blueprint" and therefore becomes religiously valid through actual praxis or applied "gnosis" - with the actual encounter typically amounting to the dissolution of personal ego states into a unitary sense of at-one-ment commonly described as harmonious alignment with a more expansive "meta reality".
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