We must renounce ready-made teachings and pre-digested knowledge that promises to provide all the answers. For what is most important is not taught; it is lived through blood and tears, even stolen from life itself. It must be acquired through an act of individual disobedience and personal will.
Gnosis, revealed inner and divine knowledge, the understanding, cannot be read in a book, nor can it be bought with money. It is alive, life-giving, and uncontrollable. Any knowledge frozen on paper becomes dead. Any knowledge easily given is of little value. The most significant knowledge, therefore, remains alive and is transmitted only through theft, through disobedience. Only through an act of thirst.
Two examples:
In Genesis: the Garden of Eden, Eve and Adam taste the forbidden fruit, the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. To taste this knowledge, they must disobey. What matters is not what Adam and Eve eat, but the act of disobedience, the desire to access knowledge reserved for God. They then attain Gnosis.
In Greek mythology: Prometheus steals the sacred fire from Olympus to give it to humankind. A fire thief defies the supreme God. This fire symbolizes divine knowledge, control over nature, and by extension, control over destiny and free will.
Religious power discourages its followers from pursuing knowledge, clearly preferring faith. Acquiring Gnosis is the result of an individual, voluntary, and determined choice. We must first disobey ourselves and steal this knowledge from life. It then opens a path to individual liberation, with its corollaries of responsibility and solitude.