I see the image of God being twofold: the natural image and the moral image. The natural image includes the characteristics of spirituality, knowledge, and immortality and these "powers" can be summed in the word "personality." The moral image of God has to do with holiness, i.e., how we use the natural image....whether rightly or wrongly.
The quote from Dr.E's source
"The essential prerequisite for Gnosis, its fundamental postulate, is the recognition of "divine spark" with, ie, an individual "immortal entity" that is not of "this world," nor a part of empirical psyche. This "spark" has many names: the inner man, the best and oldest self, the deepest self, the true "I," divine spirit within, angel, the ancient being, the immortal self, daemon...in sum, it is the "authentic self," while the empirical, existential, temporal psyche is a "false I."
I'm not trying to "getya", but can you see how when I compare the quote from Dr. E's source and your quote I see a distinct similarity in how the gnostics view man and the dualism you present?