The Gospel of the Egyptians

The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit

The Gospel of the Egyptians — also called the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit — is the central sacred text of Sethian Gnosticism. Seth, the third son of Adam, is here not a minor biblical figure but a cosmic saviour, a heavenly being who descends through the ages in different forms — as the earthly Seth, as Jesus, as the Great Light — to rescue the spiritual seed of humanity from the Archo