I couldn't get any more Gnostic if I tried
Philip K. Dick, na Exegesis, em 1977 (três anos depois do Apocalipse de Valis):
- A searingly important realization:
The view (revelation) that a wise, benign, powerful true God from "outside" has invaded our spurious reality & is transforming it ontologically into the good and real - this is [a] fundamental Gnostic view: the bad or stupid demiurge constructs a "counterfeit" reality that couldn't come to (full) life, & the real, distant "stranger" God took pity re all this & entered this counterfeit creation - as Christ - to begin his task of transmuting (saving) this whole cosmos.
My writing is dead-on Gnosticism - to view our world as spurious. My 3-74 experience added the further Gnostic gnosis of the penetration (Zebra) by the true God (what I saw as zebra's modulating processes & his mimickry). In other words, my writing presents one part of the Gnostic world view, entering over into the completing of the vision by the 3-74 revelation. I deduced the first premise & then by divine revelation received confirmation of the completing part.
The Gnostic reproach about our world is not just that it is evil but spurious: imperfect, as a mere copy of the true pleroma.
I couldn't get more Gnostic, once I saw Zebra as invading & mimicking as he modulates, if I tried.
With the (vision of the) entrance into our spurious world of a transmuting benign deity (Zebra) my Gnostic cosmology is complete. But already, before my vision in 2 or 3/74, I had written about it; I mean UBIK. I need not get Zebra & his transubstantiating activity down on paper to have succeeded in writing out the full picture. It's there, in those 3 or 4 novels. The collective totality of the message in those 3 or 4 novels (or 5, if TEARS is included) as absolutely & indubitably Gnosticism - which I knew nothing about, when I wrote them.




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