Skepticism does that. It says that the past is the same as the present and the future will be like the past. That is no changes, the same things continuing forward.
It does not recognise nor accept the changes already made and because of that it can't see those changes working ahead of itself in the future.
This is skepticism related to our esoteric work.
Our first step to overcome skepticism is to see it in action. See how we see a future of nothing happening and how we project that onto the future of ourselves and others and how we don't accept the progress of others and ourselves as real.
Once we see it in action, we can know that it is plain old skepticism, and then we can begin counteracting it by accepting and recognising our own work. When we do that we can begin to modify that skepticism and replace it bit by bit with conscious faith.
We will then naturally become encouraging and optimistic about the work of others. This is very important for the Gnostic person to be happy, because the skeptical attitude is to see those in Gnosis as trying to change but mostly pretending, and because of that the skeptical gnostic is very distrusting and bitter. This is not a very good way to be and really is worth making the effort to change.
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