To ignore physical reality is hardly a facet of Gnosticism. It is necessary to note that there are two truths as described within esotericism and Mahayana Buddhism: conventional and ultimate. The ultimate is spiritual, the conventional is material. Those who ignore the realities of their daily life will not realize the internal spiritual factors that vivify them, because Malkuth is the spring board to initiate spiritual life, and is the alchemical amalgamation of all the forces of the cosmos.

Therefore, there must be a negotiation between the internal states of man and the external events of life if there is to be any development of wisdom. This is well documented in Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology and Endocrinology and Criminology.

In terms of other martyrs, see "The Passion of Mansur Al-Hallaj" in The Doomed Aryan Race.