The result of such transitions — which are in fact leaps — is that the meanings of words are changed. The gnostic program that Hegel successfully carries out retains for itself the name “philosophy,” and the speculative system in which the gnostic unfolds his will to make himself master of being insists on calling itself “science.”
Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man’s loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.
– Science, Politics, and Gnosticism (2004), pp. 29-30