If we follow the trail of dualism, we perpetuate the skewed perspective of Christian heresiologists... If we instead trace the aspects of Gnosticism that were most important not to Christian heresy-hunters but to the history of religion in the West, we may ignore the rejection of matter as an occasional extravagance.
(Gnosis: an esoteric tradition of mystical visions and unions, Merkur 1993, 114)
