"I and the Father are One. If you have seen me, you have seen the Father."
Illusory or not, it's efficacy is incumbent on the observer, and the observation creates reality.
Very good. That completes our Bible reading for today.
Tomorrow we look at the Prayer in the Garden,
"Father, I pray that they may be One, even as we are One, thou in me, I in them, they in Us."
I agree Gnosticism isn't Christianity. But Christianity IS Gnostic, without a doubt. While Christianity is a religious tradition, Gnosticism is a psyop term used by Ireneus to chastise heretics.
All good. There's plenty of bread. These are the fun ones. It gets much worse, if you didn't know already….