Talk:Gnosis/Archive 3

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Researching a lot about antique and modern Gnosticism, I have the uncanny feeling that most of the content in this article is a modern construct – a modern invention to make something profound and mystical of a common Greek word used in daily discourse in the antiquity, inequating it with knowledge ignoring its original meaning of rather 'knowledge by experience' than just 'knowledge' – but this doesn't make the Gnosis of the Platonic equal to the Gnosis of the mystery cults, of Gnosticism nor of non-Gnostic Christianity. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 17:29, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

It appears that the sex-magical groups, thelemites, gurdieffians/samaelians/belzebuubians, and the chaos magickians equate "gnosis" with a certain altered state of consciousness. Instead of having badly motivated links in the see-also section, it would be better to have a short paragraph about this different definition. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 09:53, 1 January 2018 (UTC)