"It is highly significant that the first Christian heresy was Gnosticism, and in a certain way the whole history of the West was changed by this fact. For heretical Gnosticism, although it disappeared almost entirely in the fifth or sixth century, at least succeeded in one thing: it discredited definitively the New Testament term “gnosis” and, in so doing, well-nigh completely obscured the simple idea of a sacred intellectuality. And we believe that if the work of René Guénon has a meaning, it is not only to rehabilitate the notion of gnosis, but, more profoundly, to give us back the living and luminous intuition of it."

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