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
The room was silent — no beating hearts, ticking clocks or gnostic ravens — except for the creak of a chair and the soft flutter of a turning page.
From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 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
Just as his characters plunge through constructed realities in quest of truer selves, so do we, as DeLillo’s readers, find in his pages something akin to insight of a gnostic order.
From New York Times • May 2, 2016
Basing itself probably on a union of certain gnostic and ascetic doctrines, this sect pretended that its members were re-established in Adam's state of original innocency.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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