Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing

Cioran is great. Pessimism by Dienstag was not bad, but academic: https://www.amazon.com/Pessimism-Philosophy-Joshua-Foa-Dienstag/dp/0691141126 Gnosticism by Stephan Hoeller is an easy read: https://www.amazon.com/Gnosticism-Light-Ancient-Tradition-Knowing/dp/0835608166 You may appreciate this: https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-the-all-good-god