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

Or so say the Infancy Gospels, gnostic folk tales popular in their day but left out of the Scriptures for obvious reasons.

From New York Times • May 26, 2020

The novel finally ends up in a commune where Ana and her gnostic sisters discuss “a plethora of other ideas about women that turned traditionally held beliefs upside down.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 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

The idea of monotheism was represented in Arabia by the Jews, who were particularly numerous in the Ḥijáz, and by several gnostic sects of an ascetic character—e.g., the Ṣábians283 and the Rakúsians.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold