February 22, 2025 • 35 mins
What if everything we’ve been told about Genesis is a lie? What if the serpent in the Garden wasn’t the villain—but the bringer of divine wisdom? And what if Jesus himself was connected to this hidden knowledge?In this episode, we dive deep into the Gnostic interpretation of Genesis, exploring how the serpent, the forbidden fruit, and the Demiurge fit into a larger narrative of divine awakening and cosmic deception. We’ll unravel the connections between Jesus, Sophia, and the serpent, revealing a radically different story—one where humanity’s exile from Eden wasn’t a punishment, but a liberation.Was the serpent an agent of truth? Was Jesus teaching the same wisdom that the Demiurge tried to suppress? Join us as we break down the lost Gnostic teachings, the true meaning of the fall, and the hidden Christ behind the veil of history.#anunnaki #gnosticism #gnosticchristianity
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Some stories survive the ages. They are told and retold,
reshaped for new generations, rebranded for new religions.
They become legend, then scripture, then law.
But behind every great myth there is an older version, a
forgotten thread woven into the fabric of history, buried
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beneath centuries of translation, suppression and
control. The Garden of Eden.
A paradise, a tree of knowledge,a forbidden truth, and a
serpent. We were told the serpent was the
villain. But the oldest records tell a
different story. They speak of a being not of
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deception, but of wisdom. A being who defied the laws of
heaven to uplift mankind. So why does his story sound so
familiar? Why does it echo in the tale of
Lucifer, the light bringer cast down for defiance?
Why does it mirror the words of Jesus, who preached a hidden
Kingdom? 1 not of temples and laws, but
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of knowledge? What if these figures were never
separate? Lucifer and Jesus are part of
the same story, a story rewritten over millennia.
This is the story of the first rebel, the bringer of knowledge,
the God who broke the rules to set humanity free.
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Music. In every ancient tradition there
is a figure who defies authority, a being who chooses
to rebel not out of malice, but out of something far more
dangerous, compassion. In Sumerian myth, it was Enki,
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the God of wisdom, who betrayed the Supreme Deity to give
humanity, knowledge and civilization.
In Christian tradition, it was Lucifer, the Lightbringer who
refused to kneel, choosing instead to gift enlightenment to
mankind. And in the New Testament, it was
Jesus, the man who defied religious law, condemned the
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powerful, and preached a gospel of self realization.
The people were dying, poisoned by divine judgement.
But salvation came in the form of the serpent, cast in bronze
and raised on a pole by Moses. Anyone who looked upon it was
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healed. Centuries later, another man
would be lifted up in the same way.
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so
must the Son of Man be lifted up.
Why would Jesus compare himself to the serpent, the symbol of
rebellion, the symbol of forbidden knowledge, the symbol
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of Enki? Some of the oldest texts we have
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from Samaria, dating back over 4000 years, describe Enki as the
one who gifted humanity with forbidden knowledge.
Not just survival, not just tools, but something more
Civilization itself. Writing, mathematics,
agriculture, medicine, everything that made humans more
than just animals. In Sumerian tradition, knowledge
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was sacred, it was power, and itwas kept hidden in something
called the Me, a set of divine decrees that controlled the very
fabric of civilization. These me contained the secrets
of the gods, and Enki, against all law, gave them away.
He let humanity steal fire from heaven.
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He let them eat from the tree ofknowledge.
He let them become something greater.
The Bible tells us that a serpent tempted mankind in Eden,
leading them to forbidden knowledge.
But in the Sumerian myths that came first.
That role belongs to Enki. His messenger was a being named
Ningish Zita, a God also represented as a serpent.
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In some versions it is Ningish Zita who guards the Tree of
Life, and in others it is Enki himself who takes the role of
the serpent, whispering knowledge to those willing to
listen. Even the name Enki carries
meaning. N means Lord, Ki means Earth.
He was not just the God of the earth, he was the keeper of the
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Abzu, the deep primordial waters.
A being that moves through the depths, hidden from sight,
waiting in the shadows. A serpent.
In Greek mythology we find the story of the Titan Prometheus.
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In the time before civilization,the gods ruled absolutely.
Humanity was weak, left in darkness, helpless, dependent on
the will of the Olympians. Zeus, the king of the gods,
decreed that mankind must remainignorant.
But one among them disagreed. Prometheus saw the potential in
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mankind. He saw what the gods feared,
that with knowledge humans wouldrise beyond their chains.
And so he did the unthinkable. He stole fire from the heavens
and gave it to humanity. And with it he gave them power.
The power to create, to think, to challenge the gods
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themselves. Zeus was not amused.
The gods do not tolerate rebellion.
Prometheus was sentenced to an eternal punishment.
He was chained to a rock, his body exposed to the elements,
his crime never forgotten. And each day an eagle was sent
to devour his liver, only for itto regrow so that his torment
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would never end. This was a warning, a message to
all who would challenge the gods.
Knowledge has a price, and the bringers of knowledge must pay
it in blood. In Hesiod's Theogony, in
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Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, the story of Prometheus is
clear. He was a benefactor of mankind,
a Titan who defied Zeus to granthumans fire, the very force that
would elevate them beyond their primitive state.
Fire, in this context, is more than mere flame.
It is a symbol of knowledge, civilization, and
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transformation. It represents the power to
create, to build, to question. But for this crime, Prometheus
was condemned to eternal torment, chained to a desolate
mountain where each day an eaglewould consume his liver, only
for it to regenerate by nightfall.
His suffering was not just retribution, it was a warning, a
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message from the gods that knowledge has a price.
This theme is not unique to Greek mythology.
In the Sumerian Eridu Genesis and the Babylonian Atrehasis
epic, Enki plays an eerily similar role.
As the God of wisdom and freshwater, he possessed the ME
sacred decrees that held the keys to civilization.
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These divine laws were not meantfor humankind.
And yet Enki, like Prometheus, saw potential where the ruling
gods saw only disorder. He gave humans the knowledge to
write, to build, to think for themselves.
In doing so, he defied his brother Enlil, the supreme God
who sought to keep humanity in subjugation.
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And just as Prometheus's defiance led to his punishment,
Enki's actions made him a figureof contention, a God whose
loyalty to humanity placed him at odds with his divine kin.
The parallels do not end there. In both the Sumerian and
judeo-christian traditions thereexists a sacred garden, a place
where a divine authority forbidshumanity from accessing
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knowledge. In Eden, it is the tree of
knowledge, guarded by divine decree.
In summer, it is Enki's sacred garden, where the me were
stored. And in both stories, a being
emerges to bridge the gap between the divine and the
mortal. A serpent.
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The Serpent of Eden has long been vilified in Christian
theology as the tempter, the deceiver, the embodiment of sin.
But in the oldest traditions, the serpent was not a symbol of
corruption, it was a symbol of wisdom.
Enki, the serpent deity Ningush,Zita and the knowledge bearing
Snake of Eden are not separate entities.
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They are iterations of the same archetype, a being that grants
enlightenment at great personal cost.
The biblical text itself contains a contradiction.
In Genesis, the serpent offers knowledge and is cursed.
Yet in John 314, Jesus himself is compared to the serpent that
Moses lifted in the wilderness, an image of salvation, not
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damnation. If the serpent and the giver of
knowledge are one and the same, then what does this tell us
about Prometheus? He is not explicitly depicted as
a serpent in Greek myth, but hisrole mirrors that of Enki,
Lucifer, and the Serpent of Eden.
Like them, he defies divine authority.
Like them, he grants forbidden knowledge, and like them he
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suffers for his crime. Even in ancient Greece, serpents
were deeply connected to wisdom and hidden knowledge.
The Python of Delphi guarded themost sacred prophecies of
Apollo's temple. The Staff of Hermes, the
Caducius entwined by twin serpents, became a symbol of
healing and divine secrets. The cult of Asclepius, God of
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medicine, venerated the serpent as a bringer of transformation.
Fire and serpents share the samesymbolic weight.
Both are forces of change, feared by those who seek
control, revered by those who seek enlightenment.
Prometheus's fire was never justfire.
It was illumination. It was the ability to break free
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from the confines of ignorance. It was the same force that Enki
offered humanity, the same forcethat the serpent revealed in
Eden, the same force that Lucifer, the light bringer, was
cast down for bringing to mankind.
So why does every ancient culture tell this story?
Why do the gods fear knowledge? Why must the fire bringer, the
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serpent, the light bearer, always suffer?
Perhaps the answer is simple. Perhaps the gods were never gods
at all. Perhaps they were rulers afraid
of losing control. Contrary to what some might
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believe, there was never a groupof people who called themselves
Gnostics. The term Gnosticism was applied
centuries later by scholars seeking to categorize a broad
and diverse set of spiritual traditions that emerged
alongside early Christianity. These groups did not see
themselves as part of a single movement.
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They were Mystics, philosophers,teachers scattered across the
Roman Empire from Egypt to Syria, from Judea to Greece.
Their only common thread A belief that salvation was not
granted through blind faith, butthrough knowledge.
Gnosis, a direct personal understanding of divine truth.
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For centuries, our understandingof early Christianity came from
a single perspective, the Orthodox Church.
But that perspective had competitors, and in 1945 a
discovery in Upper Egypt changedeverything.
A. Collection of 13 leather bound
codices containing over 50 ancient texts.
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These manuscripts, written in Coptic, revealed an entirely
lost dimension of early Christianity, one that had been
buried for nearly 1600 years. The Nag Hamadi Library contained
texts that had been declared heretical by the early church,
offering an alternative vision of Jesus, creation and the
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nature of God. Among them was the Gospel of
Thomas, a collection of 114 secret sayings of Jesus focusing
on self knowledge and enlightenment rather than
salvation through faith. The Gospel of Philip explored
mystical sacraments and taught that divine knowledge, not
obedience, leads to salvation. The Gospel of Truth described
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the material world as an illusion, portraying Jesus as a
bringer of hidden wisdom. The Apocryphon of John presented
a Gnostic creation myth revealing Y'all de Bath, the
false God Demiurge and Sophia the Divine Mother.
The Gospel of Mary elevated MaryMagdalene as Jesus closest
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disciple, challenging the male dominated church.
The Gospel of Judas shocked scholars by portraying Judas not
as a betrayer, but as the only disciple who understood Jesus
true mission. Lastly, the Pistus Sophia delved
into heavenly realms and the soul's journey to enlightenment,
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revealing esoteric teachings about divine wisdom.
These texts, long buried and condemned as heresy, offer a
lost perspective on Jesus and the nature of existence, one
that the early Church sought to erase.
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In mainstream Christianity, Jesus and Lucifer stand in
absolute opposition. 1 is savior, the other is deceiver.
But in the Gnostic texts, the distinction is not so clear.
Both figures rebel against the demiurge.
Both offer enlightenment, both suffer for the knowledge they
give. Jesus said to Judas, You will
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exceed all of them, for you willsacrifice the man that clothes
me. In the Gospel of Judas, Jesus
does not condemn Judas for his betrayal.
Instead, he reveals that the physical world is a prison and
that death is not an end but an escape.
This is not the Jesus of the church.
This is a Jesus who speaks like a serpent, like a Prometheus,
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like a rebel God bringing forbidden truth.
What if these figures were nevermeant to be separate?
What if Jesus, Lucifer and Enki represent the same force, the
bringer of wisdom, the Liberatorof minds, the one who defies the
false gods to reveal the hidden truth?
And if that is true, then what else has been hidden from us?
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ministry in the East osik trad Rene, he said Aunt.
Malka ergo rexes. I don't know.
Not too soon. Testimony.
Vera Tati Perebel. I'm this Queen Vera Tati
Mountiant. Fortunately, a mountiant.
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There it is. The most radical idea in Gnostic
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belief was that the God of the Old Testament, the one who
demanded obedience, who forbade knowledge, who unleashed plagues
and floods, was not the true Godat all.
They called him Yaldabauth, the Demiurge, a false God, a being
who masqueraded as the Creator but was in reality a tyrant.
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To them, the serpent in Eden wasnot the enemy of humanity, but
its Liberator. In this version of the story,
the true God, the source of all being, existed beyond this
world, beyond material reality. But the Demiurge, a lesser and
flawed being, created a false world, a prison of flesh and
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illusion. He demanded worship, obedience,
servitude, and to keep humanity from discovering its own divine
nature, He forbade knowledge. The serpent did not deceive Eve,
he awakened her. Just as Prometheus awakened
humanity with fire, just as Enkidefied the gods to give mankind
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wisdom, just as Jesus in the Gnostic tradition came not to be
worshipped but to set humanity free from a false gods control.
Mainstream Christianity tells usthat faith alone leads to
salvation. But the Gnostics taught
something very different. To them, salvation was not a
reward for obedience, but a realization, an awakening to the
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hidden truth of reality. And that truth was not found in
scripture or religious law, but within.
Jesus said, if those who lead you say to you, look, the
Kingdom is in the sky, then the birds will get there before you.
If they say it is in the sea, then the fish will get there
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first. But the Kingdom of God is within
you, and it is outside of you. When you know yourselves, then
you will be known. This was a dangerous idea.
A God that did not demand worship, a divine Kingdom that
existed not in the heavens but within.
This was not the message of an institutionalized religion, It
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was a threat to its very existence.
And so these teachings were declared heresy.
The Gnostic gospels were destroyed, their followers
branded as enemies of the faith.What survived of their beliefs
was rewritten by their opponents, fragments twisted
into warnings against false prophets and dangerous ideas.
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For as long as humans have mapped the stars, they've told
stories. Aries the Ram, Scorpio the
scorpion, Leo the lion. But then there's one different
from the rest. A man.
Not a warrior, not a hunter. A man holding a serpent.
Ophiuchus, the forgotten sign. They say he was Asclepius, the
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God of medicine, a healer who learned the secrets of life and
death by watching a serpent bring another back to life.
Some say he was Imhotep, the deified priest, physician of
Egypt, keeper of knowledge too great for his time, but the
symbol is older than either of them.
A divine figure holding a serpent.
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Not as an enemy, not as a threat, but as something to be
understood. The ancient world knew another
figure like this, A God who shaped humanity, who gave them
knowledge, who defied the othersto protect them.
His name was Enki. He was the one who warned them
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of the flood, the one who bent the rules of creation itself to
give them something greater. He is surrounded by flowing
water and twisting serpents. His wisdom set him apart from
the other gods, and that wisdom made him dangerous.
The serpent is always the same, the one that spoke to Eve,
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revealing a truth she was never meant to know.
The one the Ophytes worshipped. The symbol appears again and
again, and high above Ophiuchus still stands, holding the
serpent in his hands. The Ophites were a mystical
Christian sect from the 2nd century AD, active in Egypt,
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Syria, and the Roman world. They were named after the Greek
word Ophis, ophis meaning serpent, because they revered
the serpent of Eden as a symbol of wisdom, not evil.
Their teachings were part of thebroader Gnostic movement, but
they were distinct in their radical rejection of Yahweh, the
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Old Testament God, and their direct worship of the serpent as
a Liberator. The Ohyte is left behind.
No direct writings. Everything we know about them
comes from their enemies, Christian Herreziologists like
Irenaeus, Origin, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius, who wrote about
them to condemn them as heretics.
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These sources are hostile, but they provide detailed accounts
of Ohyte beliefs, many of which match Gnostic texts like the
Apocryphon of John, the Gospel of Judas, and the Pistus Sophia.
The serpent did not bring death,he brought liberation.
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He spoke the truth while the Godof Moses lied.
The fruit of knowledge is the key to the prison of matter.
The Ophytes had a complex cosmology describing multiple
layers of heaven controlled by Archons, rulers who acted as the
Demiurge's enforcers. They depicted this in a mystical
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diagram described by origin, where souls must pass through 7
gates, each ruled by a hostile Archon, before reaching the true
divine light. The serpent Jesus provided the
secret knowledge to bypass theserulers and escaped back to the
Pluroma, the true divine realm. According to Hippolytus, the
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Ohydis kept live serpents in their rituals and allowed them
to crawl over their sacred breadas a form of blessing.
They saw the serpent as a physical representation of the
divine Christ, a living symbol of wisdom and transcendence.
This horrified early church fathers who considered it
idolatry and demonic worship. The Ohydis performed a version
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of the Eucharist, but unlike mainstream Christianity, they
did not believe Jesus death was a sacrifice to Yahweh.
Instead they saw it as a victoryover the Demiurge, a reminder
that Jesus had transcended the material world.
They rejected the cross as a symbol of suffering, instead
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focusing on Jesus secret teachings of self realization.
The most detailed Gnostic creation myth comes from the
Apocryphon of John, a text foundin the Nag Hamadi library.
Discovered in 1945, this text provides an alternative Genesis
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narrative, completely reinterpreting the roles of God,
the serpent, Adam, and Eve. There was a boundless eternal
source, the invisible Spirit, the true God.
He existed before all things, dwelling in silence and pure
light beyond human comprehension.
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He was not a God of judgement, nor of wrath, but of perfect
thought, perfect love, and perfect knowledge.
From him emanated the first power, Barbailo, the Great
Mother, the first thought. She was the reflection of the
true God, the womb of all creation.
From her came divine beings, realms of light, and a multitude
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of perfect eternal spirits. In this realm there was no pain,
no suffering, and no division. All things existed in unity as
part of the eternal Pluroma, thefullness.
But among these emanations a flaw arose.
One of the divine beings, SophiaWisdom, desired to create
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something of her own without theconsent of the true Source.
In secret she gave birth to a being.
But because he was created imperfectly, without divine
harmony, he was twisted, incomplete.
His form was monstrous, his power great but wild.
His name was Yaldabauth. Some texts also call him Soklas,
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meaning the fool, or Samael, meaning the blind God.
Seeing his own strength, Yaldabauth did not recognize his
mother. He did not know he was born from
a greater power. He declared himself the only
God, believing he alone had the power of creation.
He gathered lesser beings, the Archons, and fashioned a false
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heaven, a false world, a copy ofthe divine realms but without
its light, a realm of illusion and matter.
He set himself upon a throne andproclaimed I am God and there is
no other. But he was blind, for he did not
know the truth. Yaldebayoth and his Archons
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wanted to create servants from the dust of his false world.
He shaped the 1st man, Adam, butthe body was lifeless.
He could not animate it. The Archons could not create a
true soul. Wanting to keep Adam imprisoned,
the Archons placed him in a garden Eden.
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They surrounded him with pleasures and distractions, so
he would never seek the divine knowledge within himself.
They forbade him from eating from the Tree of Knowledge, for
they knew that if he understood his true power, he would no
longer serve them. But Sophia, still watching over
her creation, sent a messenger, the serpent.
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The serpent was not a deceiver, not an enemy of humanity, but a
guide, a Liberator, He whisperedto Eve.
Eat from the tree and your eyes will be opened.
You will not die. You will become like the gods.
Eve ate and her eyes were opened.
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She gave the fruit to Adam and he saw the world as it truly
was, a prison, not a paradise, but a deception built to keep
them blind to their own divinity.
Yelled a bath, enraged, cursed them.
You will toil, you will suffer, you will die.
And he cast them out. But the true God did not abandon
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them, for within them remained aspark, a light from the Pluroma,
hidden but never lost. Sophia in sorrow cried out, and
an answer. A fragment of the divine light
was sent into Adam, giving him life.
And in that moment, Adam became greater than Yale de Bauth, for
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within him burned something the false God could not control.
The Archons saw this and acted. They cast Adam into
forgetfulness, drowning him in ignorance so he would never
remember what he was. And so Yaldabauth and his
Archons ruled the material world, shaping religions, laws,
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and systems of control not to save humanity, but to keep it
from ever seeking the truth. If you bring forth what is
within you, what you have will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not
bring forth will destroy you. But truth is not so easily
buried. The divine spark, once awakened,
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cannot be extinguished. And there were always those who
remembered, those who carried the secret knowledge, the
gnosis, that the world was a lieand that the light within them
was eternal. The true God did not send
prophets of law and obedience. He sent teachers, messengers to
awaken those who were ready. And the greatest of them was
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Jesus. Not sent by Yaldabauth, not here
to demand worship, but to revealthe prison, to remind humanity
that the Kingdom of God was never in temples or heavens, but
within. This is the Genesis you were
never meant to hear. A story where the God of the
Bible is not the creator, but the deceiver.
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A story where the serpent is notthe enemy, but the Liberator.
A story where humanity was neverfallen, only imprisoned.
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And so the Gnostic texts were outlawed.
Their followers persecuted. The Jesus of the Gnostics, the
teacher, the rebel, the bringer of wisdom, was erased.
In his place they built a new Jesus, one who obeyed, one who
suffered, one who taught people to submit to the same God who
had once forbidden knowledge. The message was inverted.
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The Liberator became the sacrifice.
The prison became the Kingdom, and the true divine spark, the
one that could never be controlled, was buried beneath
doctrine, fear, and obedience. But truth is not so easily
erased. The old stories still linger in
whispers, in lost texts, in symbols carved into the sky.
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Ophiocus still stands, holding the serpent, a forgotten sign
for a forgotten truth, waiting for those who are ready to see.
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The. I am so discontinuation.
Some stories survive the ages. They are told and retold,
reshaped for new generations, rebranded for new religions.
They become legend, then scripture, then law.
But behind every great myth there is an older version, a
forgotten thread woven into the fabric of history, buried
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beneath centuries of translation, suppression and
control. The Garden of Eden.
A paradise, a tree of knowledge,a forbidden truth, and a
serpent. We were told the serpent was the
villain. But the oldest records tell a
different story. They speak of a being not of
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deception, but of wisdom. A being who defied the laws of
heaven to uplift mankind. So why does his story sound so
familiar? Why does it echo in the tale of
Lucifer, the light bringer cast down for defiance?
Why does it mirror the words of Jesus, who preached a hidden
Kingdom? 1 not of temples and laws, but
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of knowledge? What if these figures were never
separate? Lucifer and Jesus are part of
the same story, a story rewritten over millennia.
This is the story of the first rebel, the bringer of knowledge,
the God who broke the rules to set humanity free.
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Music. In every ancient tradition there
is a figure who defies authority, a being who chooses
to rebel not out of malice, but out of something far more
dangerous, compassion. In Sumerian myth, it was Enki,
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the God of wisdom, who betrayed the Supreme Deity to give
humanity, knowledge and civilization.
In Christian tradition, it was Lucifer, the Lightbringer who
refused to kneel, choosing instead to gift enlightenment to
mankind. And in the New Testament, it was
Jesus, the man who defied religious law, condemned the
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powerful, and preached a gospel of self realization.
The people were dying, poisoned by divine judgement.
But salvation came in the form of the serpent, cast in bronze
and raised on a pole by Moses. Anyone who looked upon it was
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healed. Centuries later, another man
would be lifted up in the same way.
Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so
must the Son of Man be lifted up.
Why would Jesus compare himself to the serpent, the symbol of
rebellion, the symbol of forbidden knowledge, the symbol
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of Enki? Some of the oldest texts we have
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from Samaria, dating back over 4000 years, describe Enki as the
one who gifted humanity with forbidden knowledge.
Not just survival, not just tools, but something more
Civilization itself. Writing, mathematics,
agriculture, medicine, everything that made humans more
than just animals. In Sumerian tradition, knowledge
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was sacred, it was power, and itwas kept hidden in something
called the Me, a set of divine decrees that controlled the very
fabric of civilization. These me contained the secrets
of the gods, and Enki, against all law, gave them away.
He let humanity steal fire from heaven.
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He let them eat from the tree ofknowledge.
He let them become something greater.
The Bible tells us that a serpent tempted mankind in Eden,
leading them to forbidden knowledge.
But in the Sumerian myths that came first.
That role belongs to Enki. His messenger was a being named
Ningish Zita, a God also represented as a serpent.
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In some versions it is Ningish Zita who guards the Tree of
Life, and in others it is Enki himself who takes the role of
the serpent, whispering knowledge to those willing to
listen. Even the name Enki carries
meaning. N means Lord, Ki means Earth.
He was not just the God of the earth, he was the keeper of the
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Abzu, the deep primordial waters.
A being that moves through the depths, hidden from sight,
waiting in the shadows. A serpent.
In Greek mythology we find the story of the Titan Prometheus.
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In the time before civilization,the gods ruled absolutely.
Humanity was weak, left in darkness, helpless, dependent on
the will of the Olympians. Zeus, the king of the gods,
decreed that mankind must remainignorant.
But one among them disagreed. Prometheus saw the potential in
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mankind. He saw what the gods feared,
that with knowledge humans wouldrise beyond their chains.
And so he did the unthinkable. He stole fire from the heavens
and gave it to humanity. And with it he gave them power.
The power to create, to think, to challenge the gods
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themselves. Zeus was not amused.
The gods do not tolerate rebellion.
Prometheus was sentenced to an eternal punishment.
He was chained to a rock, his body exposed to the elements,
his crime never forgotten. And each day an eagle was sent
to devour his liver, only for itto regrow so that his torment
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would never end. This was a warning, a message to
all who would challenge the gods.
Knowledge has a price, and the bringers of knowledge must pay
it in blood. In Hesiod's Theogony, in
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Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound, the story of Prometheus is
clear. He was a benefactor of mankind,
a Titan who defied Zeus to granthumans fire, the very force that
would elevate them beyond their primitive state.
Fire, in this context, is more than mere flame.
It is a symbol of knowledge, civilization, and
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transformation. It represents the power to
create, to build, to question. But for this crime, Prometheus
was condemned to eternal torment, chained to a desolate
mountain where each day an eaglewould consume his liver, only
for it to regenerate by nightfall.
His suffering was not just retribution, it was a warning, a
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message from the gods that knowledge has a price.
This theme is not unique to Greek mythology.
In the Sumerian Eridu Genesis and the Babylonian Atrehasis
epic, Enki plays an eerily similar role.
As the God of wisdom and freshwater, he possessed the ME
sacred decrees that held the keys to civilization.
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These divine laws were not meantfor humankind.
And yet Enki, like Prometheus, saw potential where the ruling
gods saw only disorder. He gave humans the knowledge to
write, to build, to think for themselves.
In doing so, he defied his brother Enlil, the supreme God
who sought to keep humanity in subjugation.
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And just as Prometheus's defiance led to his punishment,
Enki's actions made him a figureof contention, a God whose
loyalty to humanity placed him at odds with his divine kin.
The parallels do not end there. In both the Sumerian and
judeo-christian traditions thereexists a sacred garden, a place
where a divine authority forbidshumanity from accessing
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knowledge. In Eden, it is the tree of
knowledge, guarded by divine decree.
In summer, it is Enki's sacred garden, where the me were
stored. And in both stories, a being
emerges to bridge the gap between the divine and the
mortal. A serpent.
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The Serpent of Eden has long been vilified in Christian
theology as the tempter, the deceiver, the embodiment of sin.
But in the oldest traditions, the serpent was not a symbol of
corruption, it was a symbol of wisdom.
Enki, the serpent deity Ningush,Zita and the knowledge bearing
Snake of Eden are not separate entities.
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They are iterations of the same archetype, a being that grants
enlightenment at great personal cost.
The biblical text itself contains a contradiction.
In Genesis, the serpent offers knowledge and is cursed.
Yet in John 314, Jesus himself is compared to the serpent that
Moses lifted in the wilderness, an image of salvation, not
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damnation. If the serpent and the giver of
knowledge are one and the same, then what does this tell us
about Prometheus? He is not explicitly depicted as
a serpent in Greek myth, but hisrole mirrors that of Enki,
Lucifer, and the Serpent of Eden.
Like them, he defies divine authority.
Like them, he grants forbidden knowledge, and like them he
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suffers for his crime. Even in ancient Greece, serpents
were deeply connected to wisdom and hidden knowledge.
The Python of Delphi guarded themost sacred prophecies of
Apollo's temple. The Staff of Hermes, the
Caducius entwined by twin serpents, became a symbol of
healing and divine secrets. The cult of Asclepius, God of
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medicine, venerated the serpent as a bringer of transformation.
Fire and serpents share the samesymbolic weight.
Both are forces of change, feared by those who seek
control, revered by those who seek enlightenment.
Prometheus's fire was never justfire.
It was illumination. It was the ability to break free
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from the confines of ignorance. It was the same force that Enki
offered humanity, the same forcethat the serpent revealed in
Eden, the same force that Lucifer, the light bringer, was
cast down for bringing to mankind.
So why does every ancient culture tell this story?
Why do the gods fear knowledge? Why must the fire bringer, the
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serpent, the light bearer, always suffer?
Perhaps the answer is simple. Perhaps the gods were never gods
at all. Perhaps they were rulers afraid
of losing control. Contrary to what some might
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believe, there was never a groupof people who called themselves
Gnostics. The term Gnosticism was applied
centuries later by scholars seeking to categorize a broad
and diverse set of spiritual traditions that emerged
alongside early Christianity. These groups did not see
themselves as part of a single movement.
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They were Mystics, philosophers,teachers scattered across the
Roman Empire from Egypt to Syria, from Judea to Greece.
Their only common thread A belief that salvation was not
granted through blind faith, butthrough knowledge.
Gnosis, a direct personal understanding of divine truth.
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For centuries, our understandingof early Christianity came from
a single perspective, the Orthodox Church.
But that perspective had competitors, and in 1945 a
discovery in Upper Egypt changedeverything.
A. Collection of 13 leather bound
codices containing over 50 ancient texts.
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These manuscripts, written in Coptic, revealed an entirely
lost dimension of early Christianity, one that had been
buried for nearly 1600 years. The Nag Hamadi Library contained
texts that had been declared heretical by the early church,
offering an alternative vision of Jesus, creation and the
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nature of God. Among them was the Gospel of
Thomas, a collection of 114 secret sayings of Jesus focusing
on self knowledge and enlightenment rather than
salvation through faith. The Gospel of Philip explored
mystical sacraments and taught that divine knowledge, not
obedience, leads to salvation. The Gospel of Truth described
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the material world as an illusion, portraying Jesus as a
bringer of hidden wisdom. The Apocryphon of John presented
a Gnostic creation myth revealing Y'all de Bath, the
false God Demiurge and Sophia the Divine Mother.
The Gospel of Mary elevated MaryMagdalene as Jesus closest
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disciple, challenging the male dominated church.
The Gospel of Judas shocked scholars by portraying Judas not
as a betrayer, but as the only disciple who understood Jesus
true mission. Lastly, the Pistus Sophia delved
into heavenly realms and the soul's journey to enlightenment,
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revealing esoteric teachings about divine wisdom.
These texts, long buried and condemned as heresy, offer a
lost perspective on Jesus and the nature of existence, one
that the early Church sought to erase.
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In mainstream Christianity, Jesus and Lucifer stand in
absolute opposition. 1 is savior, the other is deceiver.
But in the Gnostic texts, the distinction is not so clear.
Both figures rebel against the demiurge.
Both offer enlightenment, both suffer for the knowledge they
give. Jesus said to Judas, You will
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exceed all of them, for you willsacrifice the man that clothes
me. In the Gospel of Judas, Jesus
does not condemn Judas for his betrayal.
Instead, he reveals that the physical world is a prison and
that death is not an end but an escape.
This is not the Jesus of the church.
This is a Jesus who speaks like a serpent, like a Prometheus,
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like a rebel God bringing forbidden truth.
What if these figures were nevermeant to be separate?
What if Jesus, Lucifer and Enki represent the same force, the
bringer of wisdom, the Liberatorof minds, the one who defies the
false gods to reveal the hidden truth?
And if that is true, then what else has been hidden from us?
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Gras Square, Ali E cetera TP de Mayo Cuomo Do.
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quit aguio delos pontificis 3 mihita traded end main
interfigurate the boat cool quitthe GST rexes.
To Raymond Mayo. Non este ho Mundo CSN Kuta's
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ministry in the East osik trad Rene, he said Aunt.
Malka ergo rexes. I don't know.
Not too soon. Testimony.
Vera Tati Perebel. I'm this Queen Vera Tati
Mountiant. Fortunately, a mountiant.
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There it is. The most radical idea in Gnostic
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belief was that the God of the Old Testament, the one who
demanded obedience, who forbade knowledge, who unleashed plagues
and floods, was not the true Godat all.
They called him Yaldabauth, the Demiurge, a false God, a being
who masqueraded as the Creator but was in reality a tyrant.
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To them, the serpent in Eden wasnot the enemy of humanity, but
its Liberator. In this version of the story,
the true God, the source of all being, existed beyond this
world, beyond material reality. But the Demiurge, a lesser and
flawed being, created a false world, a prison of flesh and
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illusion. He demanded worship, obedience,
servitude, and to keep humanity from discovering its own divine
nature, He forbade knowledge. The serpent did not deceive Eve,
he awakened her. Just as Prometheus awakened
humanity with fire, just as Enkidefied the gods to give mankind
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wisdom, just as Jesus in the Gnostic tradition came not to be
worshipped but to set humanity free from a false gods control.
Mainstream Christianity tells usthat faith alone leads to
salvation. But the Gnostics taught
something very different. To them, salvation was not a
reward for obedience, but a realization, an awakening to the
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hidden truth of reality. And that truth was not found in
scripture or religious law, but within.
Jesus said, if those who lead you say to you, look, the
Kingdom is in the sky, then the birds will get there before you.
If they say it is in the sea, then the fish will get there
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first. But the Kingdom of God is within
you, and it is outside of you. When you know yourselves, then
you will be known. This was a dangerous idea.
A God that did not demand worship, a divine Kingdom that
existed not in the heavens but within.
This was not the message of an institutionalized religion, It
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was a threat to its very existence.
And so these teachings were declared heresy.
The Gnostic gospels were destroyed, their followers
branded as enemies of the faith.What survived of their beliefs
was rewritten by their opponents, fragments twisted
into warnings against false prophets and dangerous ideas.
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For as long as humans have mapped the stars, they've told
stories. Aries the Ram, Scorpio the
scorpion, Leo the lion. But then there's one different
from the rest. A man.
Not a warrior, not a hunter. A man holding a serpent.
Ophiuchus, the forgotten sign. They say he was Asclepius, the
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God of medicine, a healer who learned the secrets of life and
death by watching a serpent bring another back to life.
Some say he was Imhotep, the deified priest, physician of
Egypt, keeper of knowledge too great for his time, but the
symbol is older than either of them.
A divine figure holding a serpent.
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Not as an enemy, not as a threat, but as something to be
understood. The ancient world knew another
figure like this, A God who shaped humanity, who gave them
knowledge, who defied the othersto protect them.
His name was Enki. He was the one who warned them
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of the flood, the one who bent the rules of creation itself to
give them something greater. He is surrounded by flowing
water and twisting serpents. His wisdom set him apart from
the other gods, and that wisdom made him dangerous.
The serpent is always the same, the one that spoke to Eve,
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revealing a truth she was never meant to know.
The one the Ophytes worshipped. The symbol appears again and
again, and high above Ophiuchus still stands, holding the
serpent in his hands. The Ophites were a mystical
Christian sect from the 2nd century AD, active in Egypt,
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Syria, and the Roman world. They were named after the Greek
word Ophis, ophis meaning serpent, because they revered
the serpent of Eden as a symbol of wisdom, not evil.
Their teachings were part of thebroader Gnostic movement, but
they were distinct in their radical rejection of Yahweh, the
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Old Testament God, and their direct worship of the serpent as
a Liberator. The Ohyte is left behind.
No direct writings. Everything we know about them
comes from their enemies, Christian Herreziologists like
Irenaeus, Origin, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius, who wrote about
them to condemn them as heretics.
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These sources are hostile, but they provide detailed accounts
of Ohyte beliefs, many of which match Gnostic texts like the
Apocryphon of John, the Gospel of Judas, and the Pistus Sophia.
The serpent did not bring death,he brought liberation.
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He spoke the truth while the Godof Moses lied.
The fruit of knowledge is the key to the prison of matter.
The Ophytes had a complex cosmology describing multiple
layers of heaven controlled by Archons, rulers who acted as the
Demiurge's enforcers. They depicted this in a mystical
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diagram described by origin, where souls must pass through 7
gates, each ruled by a hostile Archon, before reaching the true
divine light. The serpent Jesus provided the
secret knowledge to bypass theserulers and escaped back to the
Pluroma, the true divine realm. According to Hippolytus, the
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Ohydis kept live serpents in their rituals and allowed them
to crawl over their sacred breadas a form of blessing.
They saw the serpent as a physical representation of the
divine Christ, a living symbol of wisdom and transcendence.
This horrified early church fathers who considered it
idolatry and demonic worship. The Ohydis performed a version
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of the Eucharist, but unlike mainstream Christianity, they
did not believe Jesus death was a sacrifice to Yahweh.
Instead they saw it as a victoryover the Demiurge, a reminder
that Jesus had transcended the material world.
They rejected the cross as a symbol of suffering, instead
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focusing on Jesus secret teachings of self realization.
The most detailed Gnostic creation myth comes from the
Apocryphon of John, a text foundin the Nag Hamadi library.
Discovered in 1945, this text provides an alternative Genesis
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narrative, completely reinterpreting the roles of God,
the serpent, Adam, and Eve. There was a boundless eternal
source, the invisible Spirit, the true God.
He existed before all things, dwelling in silence and pure
light beyond human comprehension.
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He was not a God of judgement, nor of wrath, but of perfect
thought, perfect love, and perfect knowledge.
From him emanated the first power, Barbailo, the Great
Mother, the first thought. She was the reflection of the
true God, the womb of all creation.
From her came divine beings, realms of light, and a multitude
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of perfect eternal spirits. In this realm there was no pain,
no suffering, and no division. All things existed in unity as
part of the eternal Pluroma, thefullness.
But among these emanations a flaw arose.
One of the divine beings, SophiaWisdom, desired to create
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something of her own without theconsent of the true Source.
In secret she gave birth to a being.
But because he was created imperfectly, without divine
harmony, he was twisted, incomplete.
His form was monstrous, his power great but wild.
His name was Yaldabauth. Some texts also call him Soklas,
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meaning the fool, or Samael, meaning the blind God.
Seeing his own strength, Yaldabauth did not recognize his
mother. He did not know he was born from
a greater power. He declared himself the only
God, believing he alone had the power of creation.
He gathered lesser beings, the Archons, and fashioned a false
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heaven, a false world, a copy ofthe divine realms but without
its light, a realm of illusion and matter.
He set himself upon a throne andproclaimed I am God and there is
no other. But he was blind, for he did not
know the truth. Yaldebayoth and his Archons
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wanted to create servants from the dust of his false world.
He shaped the 1st man, Adam, butthe body was lifeless.
He could not animate it. The Archons could not create a
true soul. Wanting to keep Adam imprisoned,
the Archons placed him in a garden Eden.
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They surrounded him with pleasures and distractions, so
he would never seek the divine knowledge within himself.
They forbade him from eating from the Tree of Knowledge, for
they knew that if he understood his true power, he would no
longer serve them. But Sophia, still watching over
her creation, sent a messenger, the serpent.
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The serpent was not a deceiver, not an enemy of humanity, but a
guide, a Liberator, He whisperedto Eve.
Eat from the tree and your eyes will be opened.
You will not die. You will become like the gods.
Eve ate and her eyes were opened.
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She gave the fruit to Adam and he saw the world as it truly
was, a prison, not a paradise, but a deception built to keep
them blind to their own divinity.
Yelled a bath, enraged, cursed them.
You will toil, you will suffer, you will die.
And he cast them out. But the true God did not abandon
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them, for within them remained aspark, a light from the Pluroma,
hidden but never lost. Sophia in sorrow cried out, and
an answer. A fragment of the divine light
was sent into Adam, giving him life.
And in that moment, Adam became greater than Yale de Bauth, for
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within him burned something the false God could not control.
The Archons saw this and acted. They cast Adam into
forgetfulness, drowning him in ignorance so he would never
remember what he was. And so Yaldabauth and his
Archons ruled the material world, shaping religions, laws,
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and systems of control not to save humanity, but to keep it
from ever seeking the truth. If you bring forth what is
within you, what you have will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not
bring forth will destroy you. But truth is not so easily
buried. The divine spark, once awakened,
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cannot be extinguished. And there were always those who
remembered, those who carried the secret knowledge, the
gnosis, that the world was a lieand that the light within them
was eternal. The true God did not send
prophets of law and obedience. He sent teachers, messengers to
awaken those who were ready. And the greatest of them was
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Jesus. Not sent by Yaldabauth, not here
to demand worship, but to revealthe prison, to remind humanity
that the Kingdom of God was never in temples or heavens, but
within. This is the Genesis you were
never meant to hear. A story where the God of the
Bible is not the creator, but the deceiver.
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A story where the serpent is notthe enemy, but the Liberator.
A story where humanity was neverfallen, only imprisoned.
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And so the Gnostic texts were outlawed.
Their followers persecuted. The Jesus of the Gnostics, the
teacher, the rebel, the bringer of wisdom, was erased.
In his place they built a new Jesus, one who obeyed, one who
suffered, one who taught people to submit to the same God who
had once forbidden knowledge. The message was inverted.
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The Liberator became the sacrifice.
The prison became the Kingdom, and the true divine spark, the
one that could never be controlled, was buried beneath
doctrine, fear, and obedience. But truth is not so easily
erased. The old stories still linger in
whispers, in lost texts, in symbols carved into the sky.
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Ophiocus still stands, holding the serpent, a forgotten sign
for a forgotten truth, waiting for those who are ready to see.
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