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
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
From which great triad, as from a gnostic Trinity, emanates an endless procession of other logical shadows and all the Fata Morgana of philosophical dreamland.
From Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Thomas Henry Huxley
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