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
“I was a nomad after losing my room, and I was a gnostic because I had to survive by my wits,” he told The Times.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
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
As I have used the term gnostic, both he and Zola are gnostics of the most pronounced sort.
From The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by James, William
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