
The beliefs we hold that were imparted to us as children, the doctrine taught to us by our religious and spiritual teachers are not gnosis because those are concepts and ideas or theories and gnosis is beyond them. Gnosis is conscious, empirical comprehension that encompasses the whole of the individual and because it is such it becomes a truth for that person, but as with all truths it is subjective, which makes it impossible to fully share with another individual and because it is so personal it cannot be translated to other in purely conceptual terms. Gnosis must be experienced.
As a Witch, gnosis is a large part of my own practice and when I practiced with other Witches we shared some understandings and beliefs, but Unverifiable Personal Gnosis was a large part of our personal practices and relationship with our gods.