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My last share from this account and I'm giving you strong medicine. From the introduction:
Eighteen centuries separate us from the Gnostics. Eighteen centuries during the course of which
wars, persecutions and massacres, causing the deaths of thousands, have amply justified the total
suspicion in which they held this world and the creatures that inhabit it. In everything that
contemporary history sets before our eyes - the ever more blatant contempt for the individual
man, the fallacy of ideologies, the wars or military interventions openly carried on for the profit
of the combined interests of capitalism and socialism, the daily erosion of liberty and the
fascination of violence - in all this, a Gnostic of today would see nothing more than the magnified
image of the dramas which were familiar to him, and the inevitable outcome of that everlasting
outrage, the very existence of the world and of humanity as they are.
Who then were these people, lucid enough to look at creation with eyes stripped of all
consoling self-deceptions, sensitive enough to feel, in all its unbearable extremity, the anguish of
an eternity forever promised and forever denied, sincere enough to accept in their own lives all
the implications of this total rejection of the world, and to behave, everywhere and at all times, as
unsubjugated outsiders?
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