The Alien God
Beyond the edge of the known universe, the alien god sleeps, submerged in an endless, shimmering pool. A ripple echoes across the timeless waters, the goddess Barbelo emerges, and together they conceive two divine children : Sophia (Wisdom) and Immortal Man (Christ).
Those Nasty Nephilim
The idea that an omnipotent creator god could callously seek to exterminate an entire species for the sins of a…
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Naughty Norea
It was not Noah who was the hero of the flood story, but Eve’s daughter Norea – a fiery, rebellious…
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The Legend of Lillith
The role played by Norea in the gnostic version of the flood myth is in many ways reminiscent of the…
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The Tower of Bible
Gnostic retellings of Genesis typically wrestle with “problem” passages which seem to anthropomorphize God or assign limits to his omniscience…
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Jesus in Hell
A long-standing Christian tradition holds that Jesus spent the three days between the crucifixion and the resurrection rescuing Old Testament…
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Baptism of Laughter
Baptism was an important sacrament for many ancient gnostics, who found in the reflecting waters of the baptismal pool a…
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Cognitive frames of reference informing the design and purpose of this web site: Antinomianism – taboo-breaking as a means to…
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