Desire, love, ambition, envy, tenderness, all of these human motives respond to the existential conditions of transience, fragility, thrownness and so to contain a veiled knowledge of being. In so far as this is recognised as a pseudo-being you express gnostic rejection and in so far as even in the pursuit of pseudo-being you are driven by a response to the withdrawal of being itself you express the affirmative rejection of gnosticism. This duality is inextricable from the turbulence engendered by the erratic and endless ways of the culture.