# The Gnostic Escape

The enclosure story becomes useful when it moves from cosmic explanation toward discernment, agency, and liberation.

- Type: curated historical and symbolic lineage
- Inquiry Domain: liberation-transcendence

## Path

1. **Gnostic Cosmos** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-cosmologies-gnostic-cosmos--sfoc-beings-watcher`
2. **Watcher** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-beings-watcher--sfoc-cosmologies-reincarnation-cycle`
3. **Reincarnation Cycle** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-cosmologies-reincarnation-cycle--sfoc-cosmologies-reincarnation-trap`
4. **Reincarnation Trap** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-cosmologies-reincarnation-trap--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet`
5. **Prison Planet** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-cosmologies-prison-planet--sfoc-systems-loosh-farm`
6. **Loosh Farm** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-systems-loosh-farm--sfoc-forces-liberation`
7. **Liberation** — `edge--develops-into--sfoc-forces-liberation--sfoc-events-return-to-source`
8. **Return to Source**

## Reading

- Forward: Read as an unfolding sequence in which each threshold creates the problem addressed by the next.
- Reverse: Read as an integration path that traces a present condition back toward its enabling assumptions.
- Diagnostic: Stop where the sequence first feels implausible; that seam names the contested transition.
