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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Gnosis

Gnosis:
Intuitive apprehension of spiritual truths, an esoteric form of knowledge

esoteric knowledge of spiritual truth held by the ancient Gnostics to be essential to salvation

Among the gnostics, gnosis was the privileged "knowledge of the heart" or "insight" about the spiritual nature of the cosmos,