Up: [[Spirituality]] Created: 2022-05-31 Updated: 2026-02-07 Gnosis is personal knowledge, personal experience of what is divine, sacred, or numinous. It contrasts to dogma, which is received wisdom that comes from the top down. You can’t do personal gnosis “wrong” because our experiences of the sacred differ. This contrasts to a religious leader directing and mediating our experience, usually within a building intended for that purpose.