God’s Family Tree
“Seeing that everybody, gods of the world and mankind, says that nothing existed prior to…
God Above God : Before the Beginning
Before there was a God, a heaven or an earth, there was only the Alien…
The Alien God and Panentheism
The gnostic Christians acknowledged a supreme being, but their god was not the bumbling, all-too-human…
The Non-Existent God and the Multiverse
THE NON-EXISTENT GOD The main difference between the “Alien god” of gnosticism and the Biblical…
The Barbelo : Womb of the Universe
BIRTH OF THE BARBELO A convention common to many ancient philosophical speculations was the designation…
The Infinite Aeons
Before the material world existed, the divine world was created, erupting from the ecstatic union…
Immortal Man
The Gnostic trinity of Father, Mother and Child was made complete with the birth of…
The Fall of Sophia
“The power which overflowed from the Woman…fell from above [and] came down directly upon the…
The Demiurge and Disorder
The Biblical creator god’s greatest flaw is his ignorance – he literally does not understand…
The Creation of Chaos
At the beginning of time, Sophia (the world soul) broke away from Christ (the world…
Birth of the Demiurge
As Sophia looked down into the swirling void, a monstrous creature swam forth from the…
Blasphemy of Samael
The Demiurge looked at his surroundings, realized that he was alone, and declared himself “god”;…
This Footstool Earth
Cast down from the worlds of light, Yaldabaoth carved a new home for himself out…
Origin of the Seven Archons
Fleeing Sophia’s presence, Yaldabaoth/Yahweh used the divine energy he had stolen from her to create…
Many Heavens of the Hebdomad
In the gnostic view, Yaldabaoth built the universe as a sort of cosmic penal colony…
Archons of Eden
As the gnostic scriptures reveal, the Garden of Eden was not a paradise, but a…
Sophia Revealed
When he had finished creating the physical universe, Yaldabaoth boasted to the angels beneath him,…
Yaldabaoths Vision
When Yaldabaoth realized that his creation was threatened by Immortal Man, he began to preen…
Adam the Golem
Adam (the first man) was a misbegotten android, spawned when Yaldabaoth tried to duplicate and…
Eve and the Breath of Life
Eve was not produced from Adam’s rib; rather, Adam was created by fallen angels who…
Adam Awakens
When Adam came to life, the Rulers panicked as they realized that the creature they…
God and His Angels Rape Eve
The Rulers laid plans to impregnate Eve and create a slave race to worship them,…
Secrets of the Serpent Savior
Disgusted by the Rulers’ antics, Sophia sent a slithering spirit to help the hapless humans:…
The Forbidden Fruit
Hoping to keep mankind ignorant, the Archons warned Adam and Eve not to eat from…
Tempted by the Serpent
The serpent arose from inside Adam and Eve as a whispering voice which prompted them…
Eating from the Tree
Adam ate from the Tree of Knowledge and absorbed some of Eve’s divine force. The…
The Phony Fall
Adam and Eve awoke from the Rulers’ brainwashing and discovered that they had been experiments,…
The Tree of Laws
The “Tree of Knowledge” was not a positive symbol for all gnostics but instead underwent…
The Tree of Animals
Elsewhere the “Tree of Knowledge” becomes a symbol of humanity’s tragic, fallen status – talking…
Hidden History of the Flood
Almost every culture on Earth has some sort of flood myth – and the same…
Those Nasty Nephilim
The idea that an omnipotent creator god could callously seek to exterminate an entire species…
Naughty Norea
It was not Noah who was the hero of the flood story, but Eve’s daughter…
The Legend of Lillith
The role played by Norea in the gnostic version of the flood myth is in…
The Tower of Bible
Gnostic retellings of Genesis typically wrestle with “problem” passages which seem to anthropomorphize God or…
False Prophets
Jesus in Hell
A long-standing Christian tradition holds that Jesus spent the three days between the crucifixion and…