Gnosis was a magazine published from 1985 to 1999, devoted to the western esoteric tradition. This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Gnosis was published by the Lumen Foundation, a non-profit organization incorporated in California by Jay Kinney 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. [1] Jay Kinney (born 1950) is an American underground cartoonist. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...
Just before it published its final issue in 1999, it won the Utne Reader Alternative Press Award for "best spiritual coverage." The Utne Reader is a periodical founded in 1984 by Eric Utne. ...