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Gnôsis in Hellenistic and early Christian theology. For a fuller exposition I would refer the reader to the admirable essay upon the subject by Mr G. R. S. Mead in his volume _Quests Old and New_. Gnôsis was not
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in the generally accepted sense of the term, or even religio-philosophy.
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It was immediate knowledge of God's mysteries received from direct intercourse with the Deity--mysteries which must remain hidden from the natural man, a knowledge at the same time which exercises decided reaction on our relationship to God and also on our nature or disposition (Reitzenstein). It was the power or gift of receiving and understanding revelation, which finally culminated in the direct unveiled vision of God and the transformation of the whole man into spiritual being by contact with Him. The ground of the idea of Gnôsis does not seem to be very different from that of the later
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Mystical Theology,
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(Dom John Chapman). The revelation sought for was not so much a dogmatic revelation as a revelation of the processes of
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of Rebirth, of Apotheosis or
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Deification.