Gnosis Definition

nōsĭs
noun
Knowledge of spiritual things, esp. a secret and superior knowledge limited to an elite few, such as the Gnostics claimed to have.
Webster's New World
Act or process of knowing.
Wiktionary

(occult) An altered state of awareness in which the will is magically effective.

Wiktionary
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Knowledge, recognition.
Diagnosis.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Gnosis

Noun

Singular:
gnosis
Plural:
gnoses

Origin of Gnosis

  • Greek gnōsis knowledge from gignōskein gnō- to know gnō- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek γνῶσις (gnō̃sis, “knowledge”).

    From Wiktionary

Gnosis Sentence Examples

  • More popular in style is his Gnosis oder prof.-evang.

  • Perhaps we may find a third and better possibility by ceasing to aim at a scientific gnosis of God, either limited or unlimited.

  • He belongs to the heathen Gnosis, and is in his essence the same as the Babylonian Marduk.

  • The genesis of Mandaeis.m and the older gnosis from the old and elaborate BabylonioChaldaean religion is clearly seen also in the fact that the names of the old pantheon (as for example those of the planetary divinities) are retained, but their holders degraded to the position of demons - a conclusion confirmed by the fact that the Mandaeans, like the allied Ophites, Peratae and Manichaeans, certainly have their original seat in Mesopotamia and Babylonia.

  • The works of the pseudoDionysius contain a gnosis in which, by means of the teaching of Iamblichus and Proclus, the church's theology is turned into a scholastic mysticism with directions on matters of practice and ritual.

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