Pistis Sophia

You know the feeling. You’ve decided to meditate, to read something meaningful, to finally start that practice you’ve been putting off. And then something else happens. You reach for your phone. You scroll. You tell yourself you’ll start tomorrow. One part of you wants to grow. Another part wants to stay comfortable. One voice calls you toward the light. Another whispers that the light can wait. The ancient Gnostic teachers had a name for this experience. They called it the war between the light-power and the counterfeit spirit. ...

This is the second post in a three-part series on Sophia. The first post covered The Fall of Sophia. After the fall, there was darkness. Sophia, divine Wisdom, had made her error. Her unilateral attempt to create had produced the Demiurge, the ignorant craftsman who fashioned our flawed world. Now Sophia herself was trapped in the chaos below, her light-power stolen, surrounded by hostile forces that mocked her suffering. This is where many stories would end. The fall leads to destruction. Mistakes are fatal. What goes down stays down. ...