I've often heard it: why should I delve into an ancient text or an old book? I have to live my life here and now, in the twenty-first century; that's where it has to happen. I follow a spiritual path with the possibilities of modern times; an old book can't help with that. Why would I put so much effort into understanding something as incomprehensible as the text we know as the Gospel of the Pistis Sophia?
On the other hand, we could say: I don't care how much effort it takes to find the deeper meaning of the mystery around life and death. I will do everything that can help me on my path to awareness.
Thus, there are usually multiple beliefs that enter our consciousness, and the remarkable thing is: that is precisely what the Gospel of the Pistis Sophia is about. Beliefs, truths, and generally accepted views enter our souls. All consequences of being human in a world subject to laws that have a long history of development.
The book magnifies them for us, showing how forces penetrate our souls, how they enchain us, how they cause our will to grow to cosmic proportions, into a god we can come to know as Authades. How we become arrogant, full of faith in our own convictions and predilections. It's not always a pleasant mirror that is held up to us, showing where this leads us during our life and especially after death, because all those fires of desire and mental superiority don't extinguish overnight after losing the physical body. Therefore, it's no unnecessary luxury to gain a better understanding of our relationship to the cosmos and its laws. In that "better understanding" lies the key to understanding why the Gospel of the Pistis Sophia can be of great help to us now.

We have become small cogs in a machine that could still be fully understood, like in the third and fourth centuries AD. Then began the "great forgetting," resulting in the machinery being used for personal gain, for power, fame, strategy, and success. Ancient Egyptian and Greek knowledge had to make way for the Roman way of life and perspective. Everything became more focused on the strategy of maintaining a large empire on earth, and everything had to be subordinated to that; the state religion was the same for everyone and aimed at the growth and maintenance of life within the Roman Empire. Redemption occurred outside of it, after death, as a harvest for a right life. That "right life" was prescribed.
The mystery school, which witnessed this in the fourth century, preserved its teachings about the cosmos and humanity's place within it in a mythical story. A myth always aims to describe an aspect of creation in such a way that the conscious listener will perceive that forgotten part of creation anew. It brings to the surface what has been forgotten. However, we need certain keys to understand the myths. It takes courage to seek out these keys and then use them again to open parts of one's own being to new realities, new perspectives, and heightened awareness.

The Gospel of the Pistis Sophia is especially helpful in this day and age because it is the only complete account from the time before human consciousness, as a mass, truly began to sink into matter. Previously, people beheld the shadow and darkness they themselves cast by standing with their backs to the light, but increasingly, darkness became reality for them, and light a vague belief, a phenomenon outside of themselves.

Modern humanity is awakening from this slumber of consciousness. This book has been compiled specifically for those who are becoming acutely aware that the great "forgetting" is coming to an end. Light is returning to once again take its place among and within humanity. It rekindles the dialogue that allows people to perceive from the realms beyond thought. The cause of will, thought, desire, and action is seen again. And beyond thought, higher realms of consciousness open up that humans can access.

In this way, a book like the Gospel of the Pistis Sophia can help groups of people activate their own inner potential, thus penetrating the reality behind all the chaotic phenomena of our time.

It is clear that the writing was composed in the form in which we can read it today. This is not arbitrary; it was done deliberately. The first three books are a dialogue between Jesus and his disciples on the Mount of Olives. From this location, Jerusalem is visible.
The significance of this setting is crucial for understanding the content of the dialogue. It also becomes clear why we need knowledge of the myths, for upon leaving Paradise, humanity covered its nakedness with a fig leaf. The fig is a fruit with many seeds, which signifies an aversion to the unity of real life and the desire to enter the multiplicity of the world of opposites. The olive has a single seed and therefore signifies a return to unity. The Mount of Olives is a place entirely dedicated to the return to unity. There, a group of people finds itself who desire to return to this consciousness of unity. In their midst resides the redeeming spiritual power called Jesus. From this shared field of life, the treasury of light, Jerusalem, can be perceived. This is an inner, luminous cloud above the human head, beyond thought, but it is also a realm of consciousness in shared revelation.
Thus begins the dialogue. It can begin now, in the twenty-first century, and the redeemer will reveal himself.