Gnosticism Mythology
Gnosticism: The Complete Guide to the Demiurge, Sophia, the Archons, and the Secret Knowledge
The Demiurge, Sophia, and the Archons
The forbidden cosmology of the Gnostics: a false creator god, a fallen wisdom, prison-world rulers called archons, and the divine spark trapped inside you, waiting to wake. Recovered from the buried codices of Nag Hammadi.
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Inside this book
What you will read
- 11 chapters, primary sources
- Instant PDF download
- Original ink illustrations
- Inline citations to the Nag Hammadi codices
- Designed for print quality
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- 01The Gnostic Revolution
- 02The Pleroma and the Fullness of Light
- 03Sophia's Fall and the Birth of the Demiurge
- 04The Demiurge: The Blind God Who Thought He Was Alone
- 05The Archons and the Prison of the Spheres
- 06The Making of Adam and the Divine Spark
- 07The Serpent, the Tree, and the First Knowledge
- 08Christ as the Revealer of Gnosis
- 09The Sethians, the Valentinians, and the Schools
- 10The Gospels They Buried: Thomas, Judas, Mary, Philip
- 11The War with Orthodoxy and the Survival of Gnosis
Written by
Guillaume Henry
Founder of Mythologis
Guillaume Henry founded Mythologis to make the world's mythologies readable without losing what makes them strange. Every book draws on the primary sources first.
- Primary sources first
- No invented quotations
- Cross-referenced across translations
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