Pistis Sophia - The trap set for people who wake up
The Conscious Radical
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A seventeen-hundred-year-old Gnostic text describes a light built specifically to trap the people who were looking for the real one. Pistis Sophia is the oldest surviving map of a deception aimed at the awake — and it reads like it was written about the wellness market and the algorithm.
Pistis Sophia sits in the British Library as the Askew Codex, a Coptic
manuscript written down in the late third or fourth century. It has been in London since 1785 and almost nobody reads it. In it, the aeon Sophia looks up from the thirteenth aeon toward the Treasury of the Light, stops performing the rites of her own realm, and is hated for it.
A power called Authades emanates a lion-faced counterfeit and sends it into the chaos below her, where it shines like the light she has been singing to. She follows it down. She is stripped, and the matter taken from her becomes Yaldabaoth.
This video is about how that deception works, and why it was designed for the one being in the system who was straining upward rather than for anyone asleep.
It also covers what the text says about getting out: the thirteen repentances, what metanoia actually means, why Michael and Gabriel were forbidden to touch the darkness or to keep any of the light they recovered, and why the wreath placed on Sophia's head is a coronation rather than a rescue.
Along the way: how the Apocryphon of John tells a different version of the same fall, why the disagreement between the two Gnostic texts is evidence rather than a problem, and how Mary Magdalene, Salome, Martha and two other Marys do most of the scriptural interpretation in the manuscript.
CHAPTERS
0:00 The Light That Was Fake
1:08 Pistis Sophia and the Askew Codex
1:46 Mead, Blavatsky and a Translation of a Translation
2:47 Two Versions of the Same Fall
4:07 The Thirteenth Aeon
5:02 Authades Builds the Bait
6:08 Counterfeit
7:34 Test One: Which Direction Are You Moving
8:44 Test Two: Does It Consume You
10:02 Thirteen Repentances and What Metanoia Means
11:46 Who Is Actually Interpreting the Text
13:06 The Rescue That Took Nothing
14:26 The Wreath Is a Crown
18:34 What Was Taken From You
SOURCES
G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia, 1896 — translated from Schwartze's Latin version of 1851, not from the Coptic. Revised 1921 using Carl Schmidt's work.
Violet MacDermot, Pistis Sophia, Nag Hammadi Studies IX, 1978 — from the Coptic.
Carl Schmidt, Coptic edition, 1905.
The Apocryphon of John, Nag Hammadi Codex II.
Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book I chapter 29.
British Library, Additional Manuscript 5114 (the Askew Codex).
PARTS IN THIS SERIES
1. Pistis Sophia: The Trap Set For People Who Wake Up (this video)
2. The Buried Goddess They Buried Sophia - but she keeps coming ...
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I suppose I was blessed to find the Indian sage, J. Krishnamurti, as a young man and learned that Truth is a pathless land and that organized religions and belief systems are a form of descent or collapse into distractions, confusion, and Chaos to market "their" Truth. I found that the inner Great Work (to Know Thyself) might be the first "open source" project among humans. No proprietary protocols, subscription fees, or belief systems needed when you honestly and earnestly look within for your Self.
but "seeing" is truly "knowing".
So revealing! Hence the ego….
If someone is selling 'wisdom', it is your first test. Buying is a misstep.
Pistis Sophia - The trap set for people who wake up
The Conscious Radical
89,038 views
A seventeen-hundred-year-old Gnostic text describes a light built specifically to trap the people who were looking for the real one. Pistis Sophia is the oldest surviving map of a deception aimed at the awake — and it reads like it was written about the wellness market and the algorithm.
Pistis Sophia sits in the British Library as the Askew Codex, a Coptic
manuscript written down in the late third or fourth century. It has been in London since 1785 and almost nobody reads it. In it, the aeon Sophia looks up from the thirteenth aeon toward the Treasury of the Light, stops performing the rites of her own realm, and is hated for it.
A power called Authades emanates a lion-faced counterfeit and sends it into the chaos below her, where it shines like the light she has been singing to. She follows it down. She is stripped, and the matter taken from her becomes Yaldabaoth.
This video is about how that deception works, and why it was designed for the one being in the system who was straining upward rather than for anyone asleep.
It also covers what the text says about getting out: the thirteen repentances, what metanoia actually means, why Michael and Gabriel were forbidden to touch the darkness or to keep any of the light they recovered, and why the wreath placed on Sophia's head is a coronation rather than a rescue.
Along the way: how the Apocryphon of John tells a different version of the same fall, why the disagreement between the two Gnostic texts is evidence rather than a problem, and how Mary Magdalene, Salome, Martha and two other Marys do most of the scriptural interpretation in the manuscript.
CHAPTERS
0:00 The Light That Was Fake
1:08 Pistis Sophia and the Askew Codex
1:46 Mead, Blavatsky and a Translation of a Translation
2:47 Two Versions of the Same Fall
4:07 The Thirteenth Aeon
5:02 Authades Builds the Bait
6:08 Counterfeit
7:34 Test One: Which Direction Are You Moving
8:44 Test Two: Does It Consume You
10:02 Thirteen Repentances and What Metanoia Means
11:46 Who Is Actually Interpreting the Text
13:06 The Rescue That Took Nothing
14:26 The Wreath Is a Crown
18:34 What Was Taken From You
SOURCES
G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia, 1896 — translated from Schwartze's Latin version of 1851, not from the Coptic. Revised 1921 using Carl Schmidt's work.
Violet MacDermot, Pistis Sophia, Nag Hammadi Studies IX, 1978 — from the Coptic.
Carl Schmidt, Coptic edition, 1905.
The Apocryphon of John, Nag Hammadi Codex II.
Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book I chapter 29.
British Library, Additional Manuscript 5114 (the Askew Codex).
PARTS IN THIS SERIES
1. Pistis Sophia: The Trap Set For People Who Wake Up (this video)
2. The Buried Goddess They Buried Sophia - but she keeps coming ...
📩 Subscribe to the Substack: https://clairesalerno.substack.com/
💬 Join the community: Facebook: TheConsciousRadical
🎙️ Listen on podcast: [coming soon]
📖 Get the book: https://shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?pa...
☕Buy Me A Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/theconscious...
#TheConsciousRadical #ThinkDeeper #QuestionEverything #ConsciousLivingThe Conscious Radical explores the intersection of personal growth and social awareness — because inner work and outward engagement aren't separate paths. They're the same one.
That is a discernment test you can actually use. The counterfeit consumes you and leaves you needing more of it. The real thing hands back what was stolen, keeps nothing, and leaves you harder to steal from.
So — what was the counterfeit light in your life? The teacher, the framework, the certainty that turned up at exactly the right moment?