The Role and Place of Gnosis in Culture

There has always been a firm relationship between culture and human being's daily life. The author of the present article intends to analyze the relation between culture and gnosis.
First of all a general view of the related fields with culture is developed and then the author reviews the semantics of the two basic words of gnosis and culture. At the end of the paper the relation between theoretical and practical mysticism and culture is shortly analyzed.
Results and The results of the article indicate that although there are some beliefs about the decadence role of mysticism in society but gnosis changes the views and behaviors. The author has also investigated the relation between culture and gnosis with a glance at the following items: the fundamental changes in gnosis, the objective of gnosis and it's relation with change, man's changeability, method, the relation between thinking pattern and Spiritual Path with culture, authenticity and finally the role of gnosis culture in facing with cultural attacks.