La Luce di Filippo Goti

«What, then, does He want man to think? This: 'They are like the shadows and ghosts of the Night'. When the light of dawn appears, then man realizes that the Terror that has invested him, was nothing ... As long as the Ignorance inspired their terror and confusion, and left them uncertain, tormented and divided, there were many illusions from which they were molested, and empty fictions, as if they had fallen into sleep and found themselves prey to laborious dreams. Either they flee somewhere, or are uselessly dragged to chase others; or find themselves involved in fights, giving or receiving blows; or they fall from great heights ... [etcetera, etcetera]: until the moment when those who are going through all these things wake up. Then those who had experienced all these confusions suddenly see nothing. Because they are nothing, that is, a phantasmagoria "(E. V. 28, 24 - 29, 32).

The Light of knowledge as the only dynamic element capable of dissolving the shadows of ignorance and transience; a dystopian labyrinth where man is immersed in the will and demiurgic creation.
We must remember how in the prevalence of Gnostic systems the demiurgic world is a mixture of light and dark. This admixture, the fruit of the struggle between two coeval opposing principles or of the fall of the Sophia, determines the difficulty of the individual intellect to perceive the True which is beyond the forms. At the same time, since the Darkness is not a complete absence of Light, it is precisely by glimpsing the forms, their individual and overall absurdity, that the Gnostic man will first be able to doubt and then question himself about the nature and origin of things.
Thus proceeding in a phenomenology of Being, which unwinds, backwards, from an examination of forms and their relationship with the Gnostic himself.
The irruption of the individual Light, of this intuition born of the Individual Intellect and fertilized by the Nous del Pleroma, involves not only an individual transmutation (gnosis is a form and vehicle of redemption) (the ascension beyond the power of the 7 regents of the system cosmic demiurgic), but a progressive collapse of the private creation of the individual element.
Hence the fate of the Gnostic man coincides with the fate of the manifestation itself.

(rif: La Luce . Filippo Goti)