Pistis Sophia

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Pistis Sophia opens a rare window into Gnostic Christianity, a secretive world that reworked Christian teaching through older pagan, Egyptian, and magical traditions. Its Coptic manuscript, likely translated from earlier Greek originals, survives as a composite of six documents, with the first two forming the main work. In these pages, Jesus unveils a vast cosmology of layered heavens, the First Mystery, the treasury of Light, and the transcendent "Spaces" beyond the visible world, then reveals his heavenly vesture and ascends through the realms. The second document turns to the tragedy of Pistis Sophia, a fallen spiritual being who longs for the Light, is drawn into deception and suffering, and pleads through penitential hymns for rescue from Chaos. Line-by-line interpretations of her song unfold the text's symbolic method, where tombs, poison, bondage, and death signify the soul's passage toward restoration. Maria and Martha, despite fear and opposition, offer inspired readings that the First Mystery approves, highlighting the work's reverence for revelation, spiritual courage, and the liberating power of hidden knowledge.