Gnosticism is a contested category both historically and philosophically, and yet, it remains a fertile entry point into the debate concerning the ontology of the world and its existential consequences. The present article seeks to highlight that the "Gnostic" conception of the tragic can be retained and its utility lies in the subjective disposition it cultivates in its followers: the existential estrangement from the world as a domain of contingent becoming. To overcome the spiritual practice of world-flight (Weltflucht) to an eternal realm purified of all becoming, some like Hans Blumenberg recommend a therapeutic reintegration within the world here-and-now, and in so doing deny the eternal altogether. I propose an alternative existential therapy which relies on Augustine's and Heidegger's subtler language of Incarnate being-in-the-world, in which the contingent and the eternal and held in tension, in a therapeutic liminal space, without implying the need for world-flight. Being at home in contingency need not necessitate the elimination of the eternal.