The workshop vocabulary: a short definition and a practical note for each term.
A definition
Gnosis
A narrowed, non-discursive state used to launch a working: drumming, breath, dance, exhaustion, sexual excitation or a long still sit.
What it is
A narrowed, non-discursive state used to launch a working: drumming, breath, dance, exhaustion, sexual excitation or a long still sit.
In practice
Choose a method you can enter and leave safely. The state is a tool; if it takes hours to come down, it is the wrong tool for a Tuesday.
Related entries
Related
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
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Every entry that names Gnosis, grouped by section.
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- Charge Related
More in Glossary
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Charge The moment a symbol is loaded with intention and attention, usually in an altered state.
- Forgetting The deliberate dropping of a sigil's wording after it is charged, so the conscious mind stops editing the result.
- Sigil A condensed glyph made from a statement of intent and charged in a state of gnosis.
- Servitor A purpose-built construct with one task, a name, a sigil, a feeding method and a kill condition.
- Technomancy Magic made with technical systems: a working that uses a machine, a network or a program as its medium or its instrument.
- Feeding The attention, offering or repetition that keeps a construct active.
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Occasional notes when a section of the grimoire is added or revised. No account, no tracking across sites, and one line to leave.