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gnostic

[nos-tik] / ˈnɒs tɪk /




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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

The vision of the true gnostic The Christian religion, according to Clement, begins in faith and goes on to knowledge.

From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover




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