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While not a page turner by any means, Jonas' investigation of the ancient religious phenomenon that is Gnosticism (specifically the Egyptian-Syrian or Valentinian type in which inadvertent divine 'oversight' sets in motion the whole drama of creation and redemption) culminates in an insightful historical thesis on the identity of Existentialism and Gnosticism. That is, Gnosticism is how the ancients responded to the dissolution of the Hellenic whole-parts relation between Man and World (cosmos). Students of Heidegger and existentialism will benefit from reading the epilogue. There are also brief remarks on 'Gnostic Libertinism' that would seem to corroborate Klossowski's thesis that the integral atheists of Sade's literary universe are actually closet Gnostics.