Origins of Evil
A cross-text reading path through cosmologies that ask where disorder comes from, who rules the world, and how human beings become free.
One question.
Multiple witnesses.
The records in this collection do not all say the same thing, and they do not all come from the same community or period. The value is in reading them beside one another while keeping those differences visible.
Start here.
Read in sequence for the clearest introduction, or open any record independently.
The Hypostasis of the Archons
The Rulers said there was no truth above them. They were wrong.
On the Origin of the World
They could not refute it. So they buried it.
The Secret Book of John
A source-first guide to one of the most influential surviving works associated with Sethian Gnostic tradition: four witnesses, two recensions, one difficult cosmology made readable.
The Book of Jubilees
Moses received two accounts on Sinai. You were only given one.
The Apocalypse of Abraham
Abraham’s journey to the throne of God. Lost in the West. Here recovered.
5 texts.
One edition set.
As each record receives a verified Codex ISO edition, this reading path will become available as one secure digital collection.