Secular and Spiritual Knowledge
The word knowledge means to understand and comprehend something and to be able to do something. It is the ability to solve a certain problem. In Greek terms the word Gnostic represents Knowledge. Gnosticism it a thought that has a tendency of considering knowledge as the key to everything and in Gnosticism, even eternal life would be attained through knowledge. On the other hand, those who were considered uneducated were called ignorant, or unenlightened one.