gnostic
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Edgar Calel’s dimly lighted installation, in which stones and plant matter dangle over vessels that hold flickering, electronic flames, transports us to a contemplative gnostic ritual.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
They aren’t new stories so much as alternate ones — subversions of the official story, secret histories, gnostic texts.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2020
We can feel its gnostic effects on our everyday reality, but we rarely see it, and it’s quite inscrutable to non-initiates.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2019
Participants concoct their own interpretations of Q’s gnostic “bread crumbs,” or share those dreamed up by others.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 7, 2019
I confess that I myself have always had a great mistrust of the pretensions of the gnostic faith.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James
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