You guys wanna know what the original, classic Gnostics actually thought gnosis was? It was understanding that the Archons were the planets and Zodiac signs, therefore astrology is no good. 1/3

This allowed the practicing gnostic to ascend through the planetary spheres and escape determinism. There’s a whole section in a Gnostic work about how Jesus came around to mess up the ‘rotation of the spheres’ so the planets wouldn’t be able to determine fate any longer. 2/3

Once you were initiated into this knowledge, you had gnosis and weren’t subject to the plans the Archons and Demiurge had for you. And this is the elevator pitch version of the story. 3/3