Status Updates From The Gnostic Scriptures

The Tripartite Trachate took a lifetime to read and required replacing my ebook reader. But we move forward.

The book is moving forwards chronologically and getting more aligned to canonical Christianity (therefore less interesting).

In which Sophia and Ialdaboath become Achamōth and The Demiurge, and the material world is made exclusively out of misery.

“The following passage (not translated here) is a polemic by St Irenaeus” appears quite a lot, I think the saint might have been quite rude.

The book was becoming quite repetitive with scarcely preserved fragments of variants of the same (confusing and opaque) myths. Into Valentinus now.

Looks like we might be moving past the Nag Hammadi Library, at least for a while, which is good because it was getting to the point where the documents (already hard to follow even when completely preserved) were so damaged that the meaning was incomprehensible.

‘The Hypostatis of the Archons’ and ‘First Thought in Three Forms’ (great name for a debut EP with three tracks), plus the ‘Egyptian Gospel’.

Gnostic cosmogony is really interesting but also really hard to follow; even the three-in-one God of canonical Christianity is less obscure than this space opera.

Coming out of the gate hot with the Secret Book According To John (an alternative Genesis with some wild cosmology) and the Gospel Of Judas. Not yet at the Hypostatis of the Archons which is why I came here.

(Some of the text, having been written on scrolls hidden in a desert for millennia, is so dilapidated that when one bit says that the disciples are “lost for words” this also applies to the text itself)