“I love Christianity, but hate Churchianity” said Vivekananda. Gnostic Christianity is the true Christianity. The Official Christianity is Churchianity. Dante, Bacon et al were Gnostics. Says Gen Pyke ” The Gnostics derived their ideas from Plato and Philo, from the Zend Avesta, the Kabalah and the Sacred Books of India and Egypt and thus introduced to the bosom of Christianity all sorts of cosmological and philosophic speculations, derived as they were from the Orient and which the Neo-Platonists adopted in the Occident ” !