April 13, 2005
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www.wikipedia.com
The word ''gnosis'' (from the Greek word for knowledge, γνώσις) has several uses:
*Among the gnostics, ''gnosis'' was the privileged "knowledge of the
heart" or "insight" about the spiritual nature of the cosmos, that
brought about salvation to the ''pneumatics'' - people who believed
they could achieve this insight.*Among heresiologists ''gnosis'' denotes different Christian belief
systems of esoteric nature, such as, first and foremost, gnosticism and
other dualist systems from the 1st and 2nd centuries , but also
rosicrucianism, Christian kabbalah etc.*''Gnosis'' is the name of magazine [http://www.lumen.org/] published
between 1985 and 1999 in California as a "Journal of the Western Inner
Traditions" covering traditions of spirituality and mysticism. It was a
project of the Lumen Foundation.*Among certain modern occult movements, esp. chaos magic, ''gnosis''
refers to an altered state of awareness in which the will is
"magickally" effective.
Comments (1)
Interesting, though the kabbalah has its origin in the Jewish belief system where it represents the mystical side of Judaism.It started with themes from the prophet Ezechiel in re the devine throne-wagon then later turned into Merkaba Mystic (merkaba=wagon).In the modern day and age we can find it i.e. in the order of the Golden Dawn and other esoteric based belief systems.You probably already knew that.
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