# Gnosticism Dualist movements that developed across Eurasia during the Axial Age in opposition to [[The Two-Headed Phallus]]. Classic Gnosticism severs Man at the neck and worships the head at the expense of the body, a movement represented by *the pillar-saint* as an immature priest without a chieftain. Inverted Gnosticism worships the body at the expense of the head, a movement represented by *the boy-pharaoh* as an immature chieftain without a priest. All totalitarian and authoritarian ideologies henceforth have Gnostic origins, since they oppose both Man's and the World's monist entirety and thereby dialectical diversity.