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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gnosis \Gno"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. gnw^sis.] (Metaph.) The deeper wisdom; knowledge of spiritual truth, such as was claimed by the Gnostics.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"special knowledge of spiritual mysteries," 1703, from Greek gnosis "investigation, knowledge," in Christian writers, "higher knowledge of spiritual things" (see gnostic (adj.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context gnosticism English) An immanent form of knowledge or transcendent insight, such as sought by the Gnostics. 2 Act or process of knowing. 3 (context occult English) An altered state of awareness in which the will is magically effective.
WordNet
n. intuitive knowledge of spiritual truths; said to have been possessed by ancient Gnostics
[also: gnoses (pl)]
Wikipedia
GNOSIS (Great New Operating System In the Sky) is a capability-based operating system that was researched during the 1970s at Tymshare, Inc. It was based on the research of Norman Hardy, Dale E. Jordan, Bill Frantz, Charlie Landau, Jay Jonekait, et al. It provided a foundation for the development of future operating systems such as KeyKOS, EROS, CapROS and Coyotos. After the acquisition of Tymshare, Inc. by McDonnell Douglas in 1984 GNOSIS was sold to Key Logic.
Gnosis was an American magazine published from 1985 to 1999 devoted to the Western esoteric tradition.
Gnosis was published by the Lumen Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization incorporated in California by Jay Kinney and Dixie Tracy-Kinney to produce educational material, including a print magazine, on the Western esoteric tradition. Initial fund-raising resulted in a 5,000-copy print run of the first issue. The first issues were produced on a volunteer basis from a home office, but within three years the Lumen Foundation and Gnosis established permanent headquarters near Mission Dolores in San Francisco. In 1986, the writer Richard Smoley began contributing to the magazine and went on to become its managing editor (briefly) and then, beginning in 1990, its editor for eight years.
By 1990, Gnosis counted a circulation of 11,000 and went on to achieve a peak circulation of 16,000. During its run, Gnosis published interviews with such significant thinkers and teachers as Huston Smith, Karen Armstrong, Graham Hancock, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Colin Wilson, Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Kathleen Raine, David Steindl-Rast, Claudio Naranjo, R. J. Stewart, and June Singer. Its writers and reviewers included many notable authors in the field, such as Peter Lamborn Wilson, Stephan A. Hoeller, Kabir Helminski, Roger Walsh, Jacob Needleman, Carl W. Ernst, Charles A. Coulombe, David Fideler (founder of Phanes Press), Chas S. Clifton, Erik Davis, Robert Hand, and John and Caitlin Matthews. Each issue usually included reviews of a dozen current books on topics of interest to Gnosis readers.
Although it was written for a general readership, Wouter Hanegraaff, professor of history of hermetic philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam, has observed that it "contributed considerably to the setting of academic standards in a field where university chairs or curricula devoted to Western esotericism were still absent, and which at the time [in the 1980s and 1990s] was still dominated by sensationalism and plain ignorance."
The art director of issues 26 and 27 was Tony Lane.
In 1998 Gnosis won Utne Reader Alternative Press Award for "best spiritual coverage". In 1999, largely for financial reasons, Gnosis ceased publication.
Gnosis most often refers to a mystical or esoteric concept. The term may also refer to the following:
- Gnosis magazine
- Gnosis, an alien race in the video game franchise Xenosaga
- A novel by American novelist Adam Fawer, formerly published under the name "Empathy"
- Gnosis, an album by UK Groove Metal band Monuments
- A class of spaceship in the MMO Eve Online
- The Great Operating System In The Sky ( GNOSIS) a capability based operating system developed in the 1970s
Gnosis is a 2008 science fiction thriller novel by Adam Fawer, about different people who suffer from synesthesia but have power of seeing and manipulating the emotions of others.
Gnosis is the debut studio album by British progressive metal band Monuments. It was released on August 27, 2012 through Century Media Records. The album was produced by founding member and guitarist John Browne.
Music videos for the songs "97% Static" and "Regenerate" were released in support of the album.
A vinyl pressing of the album was released on October 16, 2015, including a bonus CD of the album's instrumentals.
Gnosis ( Greek: Γνῶσις), active c. 300 BC, is the name of the artist signed upon the famous ' deer hunt mosaic' from the 'House of the Abduction of Helen' in Pella, capital of the Macedonian Kingdom. It is the first known signature ("Gnosis epoesen", i.e. Gnosis created) of a mosaicist and the only artist name surviving on a pebble floor. It is not known whether Gnosis was the mosaic-setter or the painter of the picture which the floor composition probably reproduces. It is also not known if he was a local or an immigrant artist to the Macedonian court. In the Pella mosaics for the first time use is made of the size of the pebbles and new materials such as semi-precious stones or glass tesserae.
Gnosis is the fourth album of the British progressive rock band, Gnidrolog. The album's title, Gnosis, means divine or spiritual knowledge and understanding. It is their third studio album and the first to be recorded in 27 years. The album was mostly recorded at Select Sound Studios, Cairns, Australia, where it was engineered and produced by Nigel Pegrum. "Repent Harlequin", "Two Helens" and the title track were all recorded at Music City Studios, London, engineered by Joe Suarez and produced by Nessa Glen, in courtesy of Sarastro Music. The album was mostly published by Kempyre Music, except "Two Helens", which was published by Sarastro Music. Chris Copping of Procol Harum played his Hammond B3 Organ for a couple of tracks, which were recorded in Woodstock Studios, Melbourne and engineered by Tim Dudfield. Post production is credited to David J Burrows and Stewart Goldring. The album was mastered by David J Burrows at Disques rue Bis. The album is noted to be eclectic not only for its transcontinental recording but also for the use of traditional instruments such as the Australian aboriginal, didgeridoos. The album marks the band's comeback which has also prompted the release of the Live 1972 album. The album was essentially a cooperation between the 1970s old Gnidrolog members to release the Goldring brothers' original material with the addition of Rick Kemp of Steeleye Span and Nessa Glen.
Usage examples of "gnosis".
Though the mighty and the learned consider them fools, their possession of the Gnosis, the sorcery of the Ancient North, commands respect and mortal envy.
Over the centuries, the Scarlet Spires had abducted dozens of Mandate Schoolmen, hoping to wrest from them the secrets of the Gnosis, the sorcery of the Ancient North.
And there was sorcery, the Gnosis, and the prospect of near limitless power.
Thankfully, the Gnosis was a language for which the Prince possessed no tongue.
When Xinemus had told him that certain books pertaining to the Gnosis had been found in the Sareotic Library, he could read the subtext well enough.
To his gut he balked at the notionthe mere thought of surrendering the Gnosis to someone outside his School made him blanch.
His knowledge of the Gnosis was the one thing he shared with Seswatha, whose imprint owned every movement of his slumbering soul.
The Gnosis gave them a power far out of proportion to the size of their School.
He found nothing that even hinted at the Gnosis, but he did, nevertheless, find several things of peculiar interest.
The Gnosis would be such a lovely thing to wrest from this quivering dog, but it would be an unexpected gift.
And then we shall see if he values the Gnosis over his closest friend.
Not only would the Mandate never dare such an act, but there was no way, even with the glittering Abstractions of the Gnosis, they could succeed.
As much as they were envied their possession of the Gnosis, the sorcery of the Ancient North, they were a laughingstock, the charlatan in the courts of all the Great Factions.
The other Schools could never forgive the Mandate their heritage, their possession of the Gnosis, the knowledge of the Ancient North.
The Gnosis of the Nonmen Magi, the Quya, refined through another thousand years of human cunning.