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Gnosis

noun
(pl. gnoses)
1.
Intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics.





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... Athanasius, were eminent teachers in that school. Its doctrines were[201] that God had revealed himself to all nations by his Logos, or Word. Christianity is its highest revelation. The common Christian lives by faith, but the more advanced believer has gnosis, or philosophic insight of Christianity as the eternal law of the soul. This doctrine soon substituted speculation in place of the simplicity of early Christianity. The influence of Alexandrian thought was increased by the high culture which prevailed there, and by the book-trade ...
— Ten Great Religions - An Essay in Comparative Theology • James Freeman Clarke


Words linked to "Gnosis" :   gnostic, intuition


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