gnostic
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Edgar Calel’s dimly lighted installation, in which stones and plant matter dangle over vessels that hold flickering, electronic flames, transports us to a contemplative gnostic ritual.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
The room was silent — no beating hearts, ticking clocks or gnostic ravens — except for the creak of a chair and the soft flutter of a turning page.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
They aren’t new stories so much as alternate ones — subversions of the official story, secret histories, gnostic texts.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2020
We can feel its gnostic effects on our everyday reality, but we rarely see it, and it’s quite inscrutable to non-initiates.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2019
The idea of monotheism was represented in Arabia by the Jews, who were particularly numerous in the Ḥijáz, and by several gnostic sects of an ascetic character—e.g., the Ṣábians283 and the Rakúsians.
From A Literary History of the Arabs by Nicholson, Reynold
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