What Are The Five Pillars? The Architecture of ZenithEye
The Five Pillars are the major organising gateways of ZenithEye–the five interlocking…
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What is a Tractate? The Individual Text and The Nag Hammadi
A tractate is an individual text or treatise–a self-contained literary work bound…
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What Is a Codex? The Ancient Book and the Gnostic Library
A codex is an ancient book-form manuscript composed of individual pages–called leaves–fastened…
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What Is Pneuma? Spirit, Breath, and the Divine Spark in Gnosticism
There is a breath that is more than biology. The Greeks called…
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Who Is Yaldabaoth? The Blind God and Chief Archon
In the shadowed borderlands of Gnostic cosmology, between the radiant Fullness above…
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What Is an Aeon? Divine Emanation and the Gnostic Fullness
The Gnostic cosmos is not empty. Above the material world of stars…
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What Is the Kenoma? Emptiness, Deficiency, and the Gnostic Void
Every spiritual tradition has a word for the sense that something is…
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What Is the Pleroma? Divine Fullness in Gnostic Cosmology
At the centre of Gnostic cosmology stands a word that sounds like…
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What Is Sophia? Wisdom, Fall, and Redemption in Gnostic Myth
Long before she became a name in Gnostic cosmology, Sophia was simply…
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What is The Demiurge? The Craftsman Of Matter and The Architect Of Form
At the heart of Gnostic cosmology stands a figure both familiar and…
