Struggling with belief in gnosticism
My path started very simply with new age spirituality, eastern religions lead to more and more experienced based deeper esoteric beliefs and also some Christian interest and now since some time I started gaining interest in mystic texts such as Kabbalah, Hermeticism, Gnosticism, Theosophy and Anthroposophy.
I come a place of strong belief in belief itself, in belief in trust and love. Believing that good and evil exist as a necessary separation for us to be free and have a choice.
Now that I get to these alternative teachings and mystic views I am afraid that in basic terms said the devil is tempting me. Or that it is the personal egoisms desire of knowing everything that will lead me on the wrong path.
I see how luciferian or satanic people do much evil. Sacrifices and so on. I hope it becomes clear why I make that separation of good and evil and how I make it. Then I see how Allister Crowley related to Gnosticism. I see the world turning more and more into a place of lust and earthly desires.
And I‘m afraid that this will lead me to the wrong path. I know these things are all nuanced and different but from a Christian perspective they mostly are satanic or evil. They exist to deceive. Technically also esoteric practices would fall into that category but in that regard I have seen both good and evil in the costume of spirituality.
How do you guys see Gnosticism. To what path or what kind of life would that lead?