Along with Gnostics (from the Greek word "gnosis" meaning knowledge) they were persecuted, anathematised and systematically and progressively oppressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al-Ahram Weekly Online] Reference

Gnosticism—derived from gnosis, the Greek word for knowledge—grew alongside early Christianity.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 August | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr] Reference

"gnosis" -- had, more or less successfully, solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch] Reference

Huxley did not say he had no knowledge of the topics he said that some people had reached a certain 'gnosis' whereas he hadn't.    From Wordnik.com.  [About.com Agnosticism / Atheism] Reference

The theological "gnosis" would have us believe that the world is a conjurer's house; the anti-theological "gnosis" talks as if it were a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3] Reference

But this is not called gnosis by St Paul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. I.] Reference

Islamic gnosis and the authority par excellence on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Knowledge or gnosis on this is not possible in this life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey, "Evolution News": correct this! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

Christ's mission was to reveal the gnosis, the secret wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Ahl al Marifa: Ahl al Marifa have been the people of devout gnosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

I have to believe that the right tunes are the pathway to douche-gnosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardcore Luxury: It Ain't Easy Being Douchey] Reference

But then again the new chavista man is generally unable to access this gnosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Venezuelan autocracy: building it up (part 1: rulers and ruling methods)] Reference

A study of gnosis, praxis, and language following section of the corpus callosum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture] Reference

We, as Gnostics, would say that gnosis is in and of itself holiness and redemption.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas and the gnostics] Reference

Still, this does not prevent people from making premature pronouncements of cycling gnosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

He is equated with Prometheus and the Genesis Serpent, the giver of knowledge (gnosis) to mankind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #5] Reference

It's not an experience that can be explained to someone who hasn't experienced it - a genuine gnosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posthuman Blues] Reference

This work, which is an encyclopedia of gnosis, philosophy, and mysticism, incorporates much of what Ibn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy] Reference

Saturn is the Guardian of the Threshold between man and godhead which the aspirant achieves through gnosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #5] Reference

Philosophy offers that wisdom or gnosis which can free the soul from its prison and return it to its heaven.    From Wordnik.com.  [SENSE OF THE TRAGIC] Reference

Illumination (ishrāq) of Suhrawardī and the intellec - tual and doctrinal Sufism of gnosis (` irfān) of Ibn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Clement of Alexandria wrote that faith points beyond itself to a higher and more perfect stage, that is, gnosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [FAITH, HOPE, AND CHARITY] Reference

Shi ` ite theology, however, took the opposite direction from Ash ` arism and became more and more sympathetic to gnosis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The earliest Sufis had presented the pearls of gnosis through the silence of their spiritual presence or through allusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The greatest proponents of gnosis and philosophical mysticism in this period came to be known as the “School of Tehran.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mysticism in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy] Reference

Only those with the occult knowledge (gnosis) of the true state of affairs can transcend this prison and enter a higher reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference