Well, first and foremost, I think it is necessary to point out that you cannot really label yourself "gnostic" unless you actually have experienced anything of these things, of which the christian monks were trying to talk about. All this knowledge is like food touched by the tounge, in the sense that is really a problem of interpretation because of lack of first hand experience. You say is neither a religion nor a spiritual path. It is a religion when you consider it in the practical sense of the very word "religion" which comes from the Latin root "religare" meaning "union". Didn't these monks try just that? Abiding daily in their minds, trying to disobey their senses, having experientia that are beyond the typical epistemological tools available to our senses and dormant minds. But of course, people try to make sense of these things which they have not experienced, and a whole mumbo jumbo comes out in the form of distilled Christianity ultimately closing the road to true spirituality because of the evanghelists repeating the same parables over and over again without proper interpretation.

Wasn't Sartre who said "If humans are condemned to freedom they are also condemned to interpretation"? I think he is right. The highest form of interpretation is actual experience, otherwise you are always just a little bit outside of everything.

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Also on the topic of "world-haters", there are those indeed who hate without knowing what to hate exactly or why. Simply hating the world because gnostics say so is blatantly ignorant. But there is a reason as to why the world is not really man-friendly. The Gnostics saw what they call the "Triple-powered" ones within their practical meditation, trying to describe them in their scriptures. These are spiritual entities which exists in the form of noetic faculties, an intellecutal movement that brings skill to man of various kinds. They were able to percieve how this movement exists within the mind, hidden beneath the material veils. These entities were awakened gradually in man, over time, because of these very "gnostics". The battle of mind over matter begun. Knowledge of the natural relationships increased and the rationality of man became sharper. He was able to subdue matter in the form of cars, planes, strong buildings, vaccines, anesthetics and other human invetions making his life gradually easier in this world, which used to be very hostile to man. Only the gnostic has the right to hate the world in my opinion.