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

“I was a nomad after losing my room, and I was a gnostic because I had to survive by my wits,” he told The Times.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022

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

Participants concoct their own interpretations of Q’s gnostic “bread crumbs,” or share those dreamed up by others.

From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2019

It feared the excesses of the imagination which was supplanting faith and creating gnostic extravagances.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)