Lived Gnosticism

Why did the paragrads always want to live in the ruins?

Because the world was ruined – spiritually, at least. They wanted to live in truth. They wanted to be departing – like, perpetually departing. They obeyed a call – Moses’s call. Abraham’s call. They were a people on the move – spiritually, not actually. Which calls for ruination. Which means slash and burn. They didn’t want the world to have a hold over them. They didn’t want to be crushed by the world.

They were tramps, in other words. They were just more disgustings in a disgusting world. More filth in a world of filth.

They knew the present form of the world was ending. They had no investment of the world as it was. They knew it was passing, that everything is passing. They lived in the end – at the brink of the end. As the end ended. But the end was always ending.

There’s a way of living in the endtimes. There’s a way of being in the endless endtimes.

Lived Gnosticism – just what Livia was looking for.

Maybe Livia joined them. Maybe she went underground.