Knowledge
idea · 5 works · 16 mentions · 33 anchored passages
knowledge · gnosis · epistēmē · gnostic knowledge · know · discern · gnostic mystery · gnostic theorems · gnostic tradition · ignorance
in the texts
Stromata
Knowledge (gnosis), the higher, esoteric understanding Clement's work is designed to gradually disclose.
that the seal of knowledge is sovereign, composed of nature, learning, and exercise.
And so the Lord did not forbid us to "keep sabbath" from the good, but allowed us to share the divine mysteries and that holy light with those able to receive them.
The Miscellanies will contain the truth mingled with the doctrines of philosophy, or rather veiled and hidden within them, as the edible kernel within the shell of the nut;
Memorabilia
Understanding that enables discernment of useful, harmful, just, beautiful, and good things.
To ignorance, obviously.
Ignorance of carpentry perhaps?
To ignorance of the smiths’ trade, shall we say?
Cratylus
The capacity to know things truly, examined first through the etymology of the Greek word for knowledge and then through the argument that constant change would make knowledge impossible.
and surely there is no knowledge which knows that which is in no state.
For if it is ever in the same state, then obviously at that time it is not changing;
But we cannot even say that there is any knowledge, if all things are changing and nothing remains fixed;
Theaetetus
The overarching object of the dialogue's search: what it means to know something, pursued through the wax, aviary, true-opinion, and true-opinion-with-account proposals.
That knowledge is true opinion;
They say it is having knowledge.
Let us make a slight change and say possessing knowledge.
Manusmṛti
Sacred knowledge personified as a treasure that speaks, demanding careful and worthy transmission.
Knowledge, approaching a Brāhmaṇa, said:
"But impart me to that Brāhmaṇa whom you know to be pure, a steadfast *brahmachari*, and a watchful guardian of the treasure." // Mn_2.115 //