gnosticism
Personal spiritual insight
Gnosticism refers to any approach that emphasizes special or esoteric knowledge as the path to understanding or salvation.
In religious contexts, it describes various ancient belief systems holding that spiritual knowledge—gnosis—liberates the soul from the material world, which they viewed as flawed or evil.
More loosely, gnosticism describes any worldview privileging hidden insight over faith or reason: His gnosticism about the markets made him insufferable. (Capitalized Gnosticism refers specifically to the ancient religious movements.)
Concealed information
- hiddenKept out of sight
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
arcane · occult · hermetic · theosophy · kabbalah · hermeticism · anthroposophy · allegory
secret
Concealed information
- hiddenKept out of sight
- mysterySomething unexplained or unknown
- initiationFormal admission ceremony
revelation · arcane · occult · hermetic · theosophy · kabbalah · hermeticism · anthroposophy · allegory · symbolism
- religionChristianity, Islam, beliefs, Judaism, Hinduism
- occultwitchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, black magic, tarot
- Religious Beliefsmonotheism, polytheism, pantheism, trinity, original sin
- occult textsgrimoires, grimoire, Kabbalah, Book of Shadows, Necronomicon
- metaphysicsessence, being, reality, existence, substance theory
- theologyecclesiology, eschatology, Christology, God, dogmatics
gnosticismorthodoxy
Adherence to accepted beliefs
dogmatism · blind faith · fundamentalism · legalism · ritualism
gnosticismmaterialism
Prioritizing goods over spirit
physicalism · pantheism · naturalism · Judaism · embodiment
gnosticismagnosticism
Doubt about divine existence
skepticism · negative theology · unknowability · via negativa · unknowing