Don't immanentize the eschaton!

The experience of a cosmos existing in precarious balance on the edge of emergence from nothing and returning to nothing must be acknowledged, therefore, as lying at the center of the primary experience of the cosmos.

Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

The course of history as a whole is no object of experience; history has no eidos, because the course of history extends into the unknown future.

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

Christ is the head of the corpus mysticum, which includes all men from the beginning of the world to its end. He is not the president of a special-interest club.