Gnosis vs. Information: The Knowledge That Saves
You can search every scripture ever written before breakfast. Every commentary, every mystic’s diary, every sermon from every century sits one query away. No generation has ever held this much spiritual information, and no generation has seemed less changed by it. The ancient Gnostics would not have been surprised. Their whole tradition rests on a distinction between two kinds of knowing, and that distinction explains why the archive never saves anyone. ...