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...browse any of these e[[Books]] from Brill. Africa Yearbook, Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism, The Brill Dictionary of Religion, Encyclopaedia of I Africa Yearbook, Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism, The Brill Dictionary of Religion, Encyclopaedia of I

...rnals and collective volumes. He is the main editor of the ''Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism'' (Brill: Leiden 2005), editor of ''Aries: Journal * (ed.) ''Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism'', Brill, Leiden 2005. ISBN 978-90-04-15231-1

...human race and a [[transcendent]] God that could only be reached through [[gnosis]]. In this context they have the role of the [[angels]] and [[demons]] of t

...[knowledge]]. Early [[Christian]] church [[leaders]] used the Greek word ''gnosis'' (knowledge) to describe "[[spiritual]] [[knowledge]]." Agnosticism is not

...[system]] of Emanationism. In addition, agnosis, or the lack of Subjective gnosis, is a primordial privation which must be corrected before a metaphysical "O

...osis/ The Gnosis Archive] - Comprehensive content and links related to the Gnosis mythos and belief system that strive to understand the divine mysteries.

# R. Mcl. Wison, "Gnosis and the New Testament, (Philadelphia: frotress Press, 1968), 3-6. Also see * Wilson, R. Mcl. ''Gnosis and the New Testament''. Philadelphia: Fortress Press. 1968.

...an groups came to be suppressed as well. The terms "[[Gnosticism]]" and "[[Gnosis]]" have been challenged as coherent categories, but refer to a family of an ...Antoine Faivre, Roelof van den Broek & Jean-Pierre Brach, ''Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism'', 2 vols., Brill, Leiden 2005.

...utations they facilitate find their most crystalized form in the "logic of gnosis," through the sacred compressions of mantra, yantra, and mudra. These model

...F. Walch (Historie der Ketzereien, 1762–1785), F. C. Baur (Die christliche Gnosis, 1835; Lehrbuch der christlichen Dogmengeschichte, 1847, 1858; Das Christen ...its history, is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism Gnosticism], or Gnosis. By way of lay [[intellectuals]] it made its way into the Christian commun

...han Mani, who addressed social issues primarily in order to help promote [[gnosis]] (the salvific knowledge of ultimate things). Still, all of them considere ...History of Zoroastrianism, 2 vols. (Leiden, 1975–1982), and Kurt Rudolph's Gnosis (San Francisco, 1983) provide useful bibliographies and discussions of the

...ough [[intellectual]] knowledge but through [[mystical]] [[insight]], or [[gnosis]]. The Sūfīs identified this insight as the inward [[essence]] of islam, Believing that gnosis led one to attain the highest rank of human perfection, second only to the

...sm and psychonautics’ through a variety of ecstatic techniques such as gnosis, breathing, meditation, visualization, and the use of psycho-integratives ( ...gnosis falls into what Peter J. Carroll (1987) calls an excitatory mode of gnosis. ‘Inhibitory’ or ‘releasing’ techniques are utilized as a means to

...]. These systems typically recommend the pursuit of special knowledge (''[[gnosis]]'') as the central goal of life. They also commonly depict creation as a [