| "There are two distinct, even contrary, ways of working out our inner needs: the gnostic and the fundamentalist. Gnostics are those who seek to know; fundamentalists are those who claim to know. the gnostic is the explorer, the experimentalist; the fundamentalist is the organizer, the administrator. The gnostic operates from within; the fundamentslist tends to be guided from without. The gnostic pursues a poetics of self: a fresh attemt at self-creation. The fundamentalist retreats to the letter, the tried, the known. The one seeks a new symbol; the other rallies around old flags." --- Michael Grosso, "Testing The Images of God" Gnosis Magazine Number Ten, Winter 1989, page 41. |
| "As a rule, the fundamentalist tames anxiety by cultivating the myth of being in the know. [....] Risk is essential to the gnostic enterprise. If you seek to know, you run the risk of not finding out. You may lose the illusion of thinking you know." --- Michael Grosso. (The gnostic also runs the risk of finding what she or he seeks, ready or not. --- WWW editor) |
