Gnosis was an American magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 published from 1985 to 1999, devoted to the western esoteric tradition.

Gnosis was published by the Lumen Foundation, a non-profit organization incorporated in California by Jay Kinney

Jay Kinney

Jay Kinney is an American author, editor, and former underground cartoonist. A member, along with Skip Williamson, Jay Lynch and R. Crumb, of the original Bijou Funnies crew, Kinney also edited Young Lust, a satire of romance comics, in the early 1970s with Bill Griffith...

 and Dixie Tracy-Kinney. It had offices in San Francisco. 5,000 copies were published of the first issue. In 1990, it counted a circulation of 11,000, and it went on to achieve a peak circulation of 16,000. Just before it published its final issue in 1999, it won the Utne Reader

Utne Reader

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Alternative Press Award for "best spiritual coverage."