[Knitting A Conundrum]

There are always those who want very much for the gnostic promise to be reality. You find this expressed in groups like the UFO group that did themselves in to go off with the comet, in mainstream hindu thought that sees reality made up much like the ancient gnostic sects, and in those who are always in pursuit of "hidden" knowledges.

It really doesn't matter to them what the original apostles taught...they're always cooking up some idea how the true teaching was lost, repressed, only passed down to enlightened masters or some such.

[eyezofthestorm]

"There are always those who want very much for the gnostic promise to be reality."

The gnostic promise IS reality and IS verifiable. The promise is actually more of an acknowledgment that people have the ability to influence themselves and their surroundings. Literal Christianity is unverifiable and therefore a matter of blind wishful thinking. Sometimes people are just able to penetrate the chains of ignorance. Christianity today is the horde of sheep chased by the Pope's rotweiler.