Gnostics remain outsiders because they emphasize change by inner consciousness rather than external rules/law.
Obviously this threatens authority governed by society.
So they are persecuted. And find themselves in perennial exile.
Sightings from a hamlet in Oxfordshire, England. Everything done here is an experiment in the movement of thought and trying to observe that happening. Nothing here is a judgement call. I'm asking you simply to look at what is happening and to confess to it.