Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Journey Through Faith's Descent and the Path of Return (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798185112151)

For seventeen centuries it lay hidden - a Coptic codex preserving one of the strangest and most luminous of the Gnostic scriptures. In its pages the risen Christ remains with his disciples not for forty days but for eleven years, unveiling the secret architecture of the heavens and the long story of Sophia: the divine Wisdom who fell from the light into chaos, and the path by which she is raised again.

Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Journey Through Faith's Descent and the Path of Return is a clear, faithful, and richly illuminating guide to that ancient text. It carries the modern reader from the manuscript's discovery and its place among the Gnostic gospels, through the cosmology of aeons, veils, archons, and mysteries, to the beating heart of the work - Sophia's repentances, her rescue, and what her story reveals about every soul's journey home.

• How a lost gospel resurfaced, and why it still speaks to seekers today


• Who the Gnostics were, and what set their vision of Christ apart


• The map of the heavens: the aeons, the Thirteenth Aeon, and the realms of Light


• Sophia's descent into chaos and her thirteen repentances


• Mary Magdalene's place as the apostle of wisdom


• The divine feminine in Gnostic thought, and the soul as Sophia


• The sins to renounce, the virtues to embrace, and the practice of the mysteries


• The enduring message: faith, fall, and the return to the Light

Part history, part cosmology, part contemplative guide, this is an invitation to read the Pistis Sophia not as a museum piece but as a living map of the soul - written for anyone drawn to esoteric Christianity, the divine feminine, the Nag Hammadi mysteries, and the timeless story of wisdom lost and found.

An illuminated passage into one of the most mysterious of the Gnostic gospels.