It is she who knows all things, and she will instruct those who seek her in those principles which lead to gnosis. One scholar who has researched gnosis in depth says of it, Gnosis is not primarily rational knowledge. Another scholar explains it this way. Essentially, the Gnostic way is not to teach you a lot of answers to your questions, but to help you rechannel your brain so that it will be able to perceive Truth, which is already hidden within you. Then I will be able to show you all things, for there is nothing hidden which will not be manifested when you have put on the mind of Truth.
Gnostics seek Truth in three different ways.
The first is through studying the written word, especially that which the Body of gnostics has accepted as illuminating the principles revealed by the Eloheim, but also all other good books which they personally feel enhance their perception of Truth. Those books that Gnostics accept as scripture come through the Holy Spirit. When we say that a gnostic master has translated a book of ancient scripture, we mean that he has translated it from a spiritual record written on the Holy Spirit into a physical form that can be written in a book. Irenaeus, a second century orthodox opponent of gnosticism, criticized the gnostic concept of scripture because its authenticity is not claimed on the basis of its being handed down in unbroken succession from some authority figure, but on the basis of its having been revealed through the Holy Spirit. They would suggest that the value of a book lies not in its age, but in its Light.