Gnosis · knowledge as rescue

Not information, and not faith. Knowledge of the kind that changes what you are by being known — recognition rather than instruction. Its classic definition survives in Theodotus: who we were, what we have become; where we were, whereinto we have been thrown; whither we hasten, from what we are redeemed. Six questions, and the answers are the salvation.

The word the whole category is named for, and the one place where the Jewish parallel is exact: da'at, the joining kind of knowing, never abstract, on the middle pillar, half-hidden.