Gnosis (magazine)

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Gnosis was an American magazine published from 1985 to 1999 devoted to the study of Western esotericism.

Gnosis was published by the Lumen Foundation, a

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.[1] During its run, Gnosis published interviews with such significant thinkers and teachers as

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.[2]

Although it was written for a general readership,

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."[3]

The art director of issues 26 and 27 was Tony Lane.

In 1998 Gnosis won Utne Reader's Alternative Press Award for "best spiritual coverage". In 1999, largely for financial reasons, Gnosis ceased publication. In 2019, the Lumen Foundation was dissolved and remaining assets were donated to the Theosophical Society in America.[4]

References

  1. ^ Faith.com
  2. ^ Lumen Foundation website
  3. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press
    , 2011, p. 256.
  4. ^ "About the Lumen Foundation". www.gnosismagazine.com. Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021. In 2019, the Lumen Foundation was dissolved and its remaining assets turned over to the Theosophical Society in America, a kindred 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit organization.

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