The Great Rebellion: Gnostic Psychology and the Path to Liberation from the Ego

An essential book for beginning Gnostic students, The Great Rebellion expresses in powerful strokes the essence of the Gnostic teaching. A quote from the text: All in all, in this cruel world in which we live there are no happy people... All the unfortunate human beings are unhappy. In life we have met many individuals who are loaded with money and full of problems: they are involved in lawsuits, overtaxed, etc. They are not happy. Everything passes in this life: things, people, ideas, etc. Those who have money and those who have none also pass away. Nobody experiences genuine happiness! Happiness is not achieved by running away from the Me, Myself, the Ego. Instead it would be interesting to grab the bull by the horns, to observe the "I," to study the "I" in order to discover the causes of suffering. If we manage to eliminate our Me, Myself, our "I" of drinking sprees, our "I" of vices and our "I" of attachments that cause so much heartfelt sorrow in us; if we manage to eliminate thos