Pistas Sophia - Overview and Discussion

Eleven years. That's how long Pistis Sophia says Jesus stayed after the resurrection — not ascending, but teaching, until his disciples finally worked up the nerve to ask the questions nobody had dared ask before. This month we open the Askew Codex: four books of it, bought by the British Museum in 1785, the first great Gnostic text to reach the modern world a full century and a half before Nag Hammadi. Inside, a light-power descends on the Mount of Olives, and Sophia — fallen out of the thirteenth aeon, betrayed by a lion-faced power — sings thirteen repentances up out of the chaos. And doing most of the asking is Mary Magdalene, question after question, until Jesus calls her blessed above all. Come for the strangest, most beautiful work of spirtual awakening. Bring your questions. She did. A link to all the texts can be found here: http://www.gnosis.org/library/pistis-sophia/index.htm