Gnosis

The word gnosis (from the Greek word for knowledge, γνώσις) has several uses.

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• Among the gnostics, gnosis was first and foremost a matter of self acquaintance which was the goal of enlightenment. Later, Valentinius, more usually called Valentinus, taught that 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 A.D., but also Rosicrucianism, Christian Kabbalah etc.

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