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

Joined by about a dozen longtime collaborators and close family members, he leads the ensemble in a few traditional songs and a handful of originals built on gnostic, historically grounded lyrics and drifting, driving rhythms.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2023

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

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