We normally take Gnosis to be a promise for a better life. A promise to feel better, a promise be able to enjoy life, to become smarter and healthier, a promise to develop magical abilities and yet it seems to promise the opposite: bitterness, difficulties, trials and tribulations etc.
When we take Gnosis as a promise we fall into disappointment and resentment and end up going against Gnosis. Blaming Gnosis for not providing us with all that we wanted from life. Gnosis isn't there to do that. It may help us with that but it is something on its own much more transcendental.
Gnosis is knowledge of a way, of a path. A path that according to the way we walk it, we are going to work for the freedom of our soul.
If we take Gnosis as such, as a path we are not going to be disappointed. All the difficulties are taken as part of that path as occupational hazards and things we need to go through and deserve to go through.
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Really interesting perspective! thanks for sharing that.
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