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What is a gnosis?

What is a gnosis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Gnosticism) An immanent form of knowledge or transcendent insight, such as sought by the Gnostics.
  2. Act or process of knowing.
  3. (occult) An altered state of awareness in which the will is magically effective.
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While we see gnosis and fulfilment of will, they see the blessings of God.
Gnosticism is the false gnosis that Paul and John both addressed in their letters to the early churches.
We are in the midst of salvific gnosis where, thanks to illumination, man is at one and the same time saved and savior.
I think it induces a state of gnosis in me, probably through some sort of synaesthesic experience.
It matters little whether a person is able to list herself as a believer or unbeliever, an atheist or a theist, a being of gnosis or of a-gnosis.
Submitting to the Lord's will, the mortal is blessed with all virtues and gnosis and he obtains honor in the Lord's court.

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