Once the seeker of the path has successfully gone past the phase of self-exploration and knows their reality and spiritual status God has written in their fate - once they know their optimum and how far in the way of love they are allowed by God to travel - they have completed the first step in spirituality. 

Now it is time to switch the mode of exploration to God-exploration and claim what has been written by God in their book of fate. They now need the Gnosis of God. 

Gnosticism is the knowledge which deals in knowledge regarding God. It is the knowledge about the person of God. One does not read books about God or study God by looking at his facial features,