2 “Aim then at what is above,”12 says Paul. The Gnostics would have said this too. They were intensely interested in living on a higher plane. But Paul has in mind a higher plane than theirs. Go in for the higher things (he says)—higher things than the principalities and powers which dominate the planetary spheres, for Christ has ascended far above these.13 Don’t let your ambitions be earth-bound, set on transitory and inferior objects. Don’t look at life and the universe from the standpoint of these