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The Oxford English Dictionary defines gnosis as, "A knowledge of spiritual mysteries." From the word gnosis is derived Gnostic and Gnosticism, the latter a modern construct referring to one of various eastern sectarians flourishing during the early Christian era, which claimed to have supernatural knowledge or more precisely religio-philosophical knowledge.

The term being Koine Greek has, nonetheless, a much broader application than being exclusive to any sectarian group. The term gnosis is used by Byzantine and Hellenic cultures as a word to mean a special knowledge or insight of the supernatural,[2] in some sense mature understanding or knowledge. It refers to the knowledge that comes from experience rather than from rational or reasoned thinking. Knowledge as in revelation and or intuitive knowledge (see gnosiology).

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