Gnosis, in Greek, means ‘knowledge’, but not the knowledge that comes from study; rather, a knowledge of the ultimate essence of Self and World. We know the word in English from agnostic, and Albert Einstein called himself agnostic – someone who doesn’t ‘know’ rather than someone who doesn’t believe in the existence of God, in whatever shape or form. Gnosis isn’t science; science depends on objective measurement and repeatable demonstrations, and how do you measure a deep sense of what is known – that can’t, at least at the time, be proved by any available method or metric?
