It's sort of interesting, because the Gnostic ideas and motifs are clearly there. But Hussie isn't... I don't know... Hussie doesn't seem to have the temperament or attitude of a scholar, but moreso a dilettante who just sort of gleans things for aesthetic purposes, the way Neon Genesis Evangelion aestheticizes Christianity. So we have to take Gnostic imagery used in Homestuck with a grain of salt.

But, at the same time, I don't think this means we need to reject Gnosticism as a means of analysis just because it is being used in a sort of bastardized form. In fact, as a practitioner of syncretic religion myself, Gnosticism might even work BEST when denuded of its historical baggage and boiled down to its most basic structural essence. I think that the parameters of the Gnostic universe, as applied to Homestuck, make Homestuck's setting, at least for acts 1-7, deeply relevant to our world experience.

After all, does the tyrant not sit on the throne of the cosmos, as he sits on his worldly throne too? Does the fundamental cruelty of the Alpha Timeline and the red red stare of Lord English not mirror the arbitrary, brutal cruelty baked into the natural laws of our own dog-eat-dog Hobbesian nightmare world, presided over by a vain, arrogant, sadistic god? Is American imperialism any different from Alternian imperialism, is the Condesce any different from our corporate tyranny, are the clown rulers any different from our Nazi president? Do we not all yearn for the light of a wisdom that is strong enough to dethrone even the proudest of pretenders to rule?

This is the Story--the Story of all Stories, the Story of Homestuck, the Story of all worlds. The struggle of generations, eons, kalpas, towards the dethroning of the Existing Rule so that the Light of Wisdom may preside, breaking all illusions that a truer, wholer, kinder world might come into existence.

Well, at least, that was how I conceptualized it in the leadup and aftermath of Homestuck Acts 1-7, since there seemed to be so much about "cosmic tyranny" and "using the power of ideas and the light of pure inspiration to create a better world." Now I'm not really sure if any of those themes are relevant to postcanon Homestuck.