This article is obsoleted for the following one: Gnosis according to the original Gnostics (my opinion))
(Imagine an ironic tone in this post)
At last the grand revelation of what Gnosis is, is finally here:
"Gnosis" is Greek for (experiental) knowledge. Or for experience.
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Again: at last the grand revelation of what Gnosis is, is finally here:
"Gnosis" in the original Gnostic contexts meant: "the recognition of the divine heritage of oneself", or "knowledge that saves you from (committing) evil (acts)." Or perhaps: "knowledge of the perfection of the platonic ideal highest heaven, and since we are instantiations of the ideal man in the highest heaven, we are ultimately of divine heritage."
And that's probably it. Nothing more.