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Gnosis in Greek Orthodox thought is the spiritual knowledge of a saint ( one who has obtained theosis ) or mystically enlightened human being.

Within the cultures of the term's provenance ( Byzantine and Hellenic ) Gnosis was a knowledge or insight into the infinite, divine and uncreated in all and above all, rather than knowledge strictly into the finite, natural or material world.

It indicates direct spiritual experiential knowledge and intuitive knowledge, mystic rather than that from rational or reasoned thinking.

Gnosis itself is obtained through understanding at which one can arrive via inner experience or contemplation such as an internal epiphany of intuition and external epiphany such as the Theophany.