Related to spiritual knowledge or mysticism, especially the Gnostic religions of early Christianity that emphasized secret knowledge for salvation; a person who practices Gnosticism.
From Greek gnostikos 'relating to knowledge,' from gnosis. Applied to early Christian sects emphasizing spiritual knowledge.
Gnosticism was so threatening to the early Church that they called Gnostics heretics and destroyed most of their writings—until the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in 1945 revealed the Gnostic perspective.
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