"D: Master, how could we define the Gnostic Anthropology?
M: Well, it is an anthropology which, by opposition, is different from the materialistic one. We all know that anthropos is man, and so, "anthropology" is the origin or the history of man. However, "Gnostic" means gnosis, knowledge. It is a more profound anthropological knowledge, which goes to the Gnostic root, to the knowing root [of man]; it reaches for the real Knowing Man ["knowing" as in sapiens in homo sapiens]. It seeks the Knowing Man by means of a very different system of study, which is precisely the Gnostic one. It is a different system, and we get to the Knowing Man by a very different path. We get to the Knowing Man by means of our own investigation. We are not searching outside; we search within ourselves, and within ourselves we find the true origin of man – not without, but within (...)" p.662