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Plain-language guides to the world behind the texts — the myth, the schools, the discoveries. Every article opens with a direct answer, names its manuscripts and scholars, and links to the primary sources so you can check us.
What Is Gnosticism?
The ancient movement that taught salvation through knowledge — its beliefs, its schools, its condemnation, and its recovered scriptures.
The Nag Hammadi Discovery
A farmer, a sealed jar, thirteen codices, and the thirty-year fight to publish the largest find of lost Christian scripture ever made.
The Demiurge
Yaldabaoth, Saklas, Samael: the blind craftsman who made the world and mistook himself for the only God.
Sophia: the Fall of Wisdom
The divine Wisdom whose solitary act set the myth in motion — and whose restoration is the hidden plot of history.
Sethian vs. Valentinian
The two great currents of ancient Gnosticism compared — and how to tell which voice you're hearing in any text.
More on the way
This hub grows every week. Coming next: the aeons and the Pleroma, Yaldabaoth in depth, the Apocryphon of John explained, Pistis Sophia explained, Hermeticism and the gnostic current, and profiles of the manuscripts themselves — the Berlin Codex, Codex Tchacos, and the thirteen books from the jar. Have a question you want answered? Browse the Questions hub or write to us.