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  • However, it gets up my nose to see a mode of thought, any mode of thought, even gnosis, misrepresented and that’s why I took particular care not to misrepresent Gnosis but quoted from its sources.

    [gnosis] gnosticism, gnostics 2009

  • With one click from the menu, a webpage you view via Gnosis is filled with various types of annotations.

    Internet News: Semantic Apps 2007

  • The name Gnosis, Gnostics, describes excellently the aims of Gnosticism, in so far as its adherents boasted of the absolute knowledge, and faith in the Gospel was transformed into a knowledge of God, nature and history.

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • After bringing the company's websites to a standstill Sunday, one or more hackers operating under the name Gnosis released a 500 MB file apparently containing Gawker's source code, commenter and staff passwords, and internal conversations between the company's employees.

    Wired Top Stories Sam Gustin 2010

  • To further drive the moral of this story home, the group, which goes by the name Gnosis, pulled a dictionary attack and unencrypted about 188K of the easiest ones like "password" or "qwerty" releasing the whole database and source code package in a torrent on Pirate Bay.

    TechCrunch Alexia Tsotsis 2010

  • A group called Gnosis has claimed the attack, and Gawker has said it is "deeply embarrassed" by the breach.

    The Circuit: An introduction and this morning's tech news Hayley Tsukayama 2010

  • Following the same story of Dur Wille Zur Macht, Xenosaga: The Animation revolves around a conflict between mankind a race of inter-dimensional creatures known as Gnosis who have been attracted to our time-space fabric due to an artifact called the Zohar.

    Anime Review of Xenosaga: The Animation 2007

  • In the nineteenth century, Carl Hase in a book entitled Gnosis, published in 1827, regarded the reality of spiritual creatures as highly problematical; and David F. Strauss a little later, in 1840, maintained that when humanity “freed itself from the Middle Ages,” and adopted a quite different set of principles “the notion of angels which had flourished on very different soil was bound to wither away on this alien territory.”

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

  • Gnosticism, which is described as "Profane novelties of words and oppositions of knowledge falsely so called [antitheseis tes pseudonomou gnoseos -- the antitheses of so-called Gnosis] which some professing have erred concerning the faith".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • The Gnosis was to be the revealed exegesis of the Old Testament.

    The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II. 1872-1939 1904

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