The gospel of the Pistis Sophia is one of the few gnostic writings that were already available in the eighteenth century. An English translation appeared at the beginning of the twentieth century, so Carl Jung, for example, already had it in his bookcase. In the Sixties of the last century a Dutch translation appeared thanks to the Rosicrucian press. The collected Nag Hammadi writings that have become available in our time give a new image of the Pistis Sophia. She is the mythical...

We are all born with our own unique destiny, and we cannot help but follow the path that destiny directs. Great powers guide our destiny because we are born from the Heimarmene. Here the archons rule. These Archons follow the laws of planets, which follow their orbits relative to the fixed stars. They bind these forces to humanity through what the Gospel of Pistis Sophia calls: the false spirit.

The false spirit thus keeps us bound to the fate we received at birth. It propels our lives along...

What is our true intention regarding life? Are we focused on the light that has descended into our hearts, to surrender itself within our being, to give our lives a turn toward a different realm of life?

We may struggle with that question. We may experience the light from the depths of our being, but we may get distracted and forget about it from time to time. Perhaps we sometimes become impatient, wanting to know exactly how we are doing and whether liberation is imminent. Or we may want to...

Mysteries of the Pistis Sophia, reflection 3, approaching the mysteries

There is a luminous reality in the pleroma where the creator, the Ineffable, can directly reveal himself to Adam of light, as the ancients called this humanity. They also spoke of the pre-existent Christ, who is eternally existent, in contrast to our reality, which is defined by the experience of space and time.

Humanity that turns away from the pleroma loses its garments of light, as many of the Nag Hammadi scriptures...