Gnosis
Gnosis is undoubtedly a
psychological knowledge whose contents derive from the
unconscious.
… It reached its insights
by concentrating on the “subjective factor,” which consists empirically in the
demonstrable influence that the collective unconscious exerts on the conscious
mind. This would explain the astonishing parallelism between Gnostic symbolism
and the findings of the psychology of the
unconscious.
Of equal significance is the idea, also common among the Gnostics, of the (GW) or spark. It corresponds to the scintilla vitae, the “little spark of the soul” in Meister Eckhart, …