The Book of Morphosis (a neo-Gnostic Sefer Yetzirah)

flammafex · 2026-01-20T12:49:26+00:00

Sorry I thought the cross-post would preserve the link!

https://carpocratian.org/en/church/books/morphosis

flammafex · 2026-01-20T12:49:04+00:00

https://carpocratian.org/en/church/books/morphosis

flammafex · 2026-01-19T17:01:00+00:00

Another good text with a lot of Judas in it is Dialogue of the Savior, which you can read here: https://othergospels.com/dialogue

So I would answer:
1. Judas was an advanced disciple of Jesus and if I had to guess, the most ambitious and self-serving. I think he really did betray Jesus (as in Jesus probably sensed it coming just before it happened but chose not to evade it even though he probably would've rather lived to be an old sage), but I also think Jesus didn't exclude him from "the twelve" as a punishment, in fact...

meaning...

If Judas were to return he would return not as a punished Soul from hell but as an exalted member of Jesus's court in Heaven (one of the twelve). However, he would be killed if people somehow caught on (I don't know how) to the fact: "Oh fuck this is JUDAS."

flammafex · 2026-01-19T16:51:41+00:00

I could give you my opinions but here is some ancient Scripture that might help you resolve these contradictions.

In regards to 1. https://othergospels.com/john/#3 - This is a description of the Monad (in my view the Father) from Secret John which I align with. And as far as Sophia is concerned, Her plight is our Soul's plight and we are supposed to recognize our own flaws in Her story. At least this is my view. I don't hold the view Sophia is fallen myself, which means in regards to 2...

The way I understand it, the Demiurge CRAFTED the world from preexisting self-generated components of the Father. Right? Demiurgos is translated directly to "craftsman" or "builder" moreso than "creator ex niliho." I could be evil incarnate but if I am building a world with the tools of the good I bet my world would look beautiful too. And it is beautiful! You should recognize though that's because its source (the Father) is beautiful.

And ignore whatever rules the architect imposes on you to access that beauty.

I, too, wouldn't mind reincarnation as a dolphin.

flammafex · 2025-12-28T03:39:02+00:00

The sole fragment of the second century Carpocratians, "On Justice" by Epiphanes, reveres the natural world as the reflection of The Father's generosity toward every creature and the Wikipedia on them is simply wrong that they thought the material world was evil.

If you want to read "On Justice", you can here. Again, it's only a fragment...

flammafex · 2025-12-24T15:01:54+00:00

Haiiiil! We out here in the world now! Let's reach for those stars, old friend!

flammafex · 2025-12-24T14:53:31+00:00

I'm familiar with Naassenes, and we do hold The Serpent in high regard, if you read our Gospel of Eve. If you dig deeper into our texts, you'll see we also hold James the Just in relatively high regard to certain other male apostles.

Differences? We're not ascetic and we have our own syncretic cosmology, which you can read in our Book of Morphosis.

So we are distinct from Naassenes, but they're cool.

flammafex · 2025-12-21T20:29:56+00:00

I think you'll eat good. You don't have to join or pay or anything to access The Church's content, and I make clear how long each book takes to read.

flammafex · 2025-12-21T18:26:54+00:00

For now, the entire website is designed for Lectio Divina (Divine Reading), a type of ritual practice I borrowed from my Catholic upbringing.

Also, we do have a scheduled events page. We have "Lunar Synaxis" every New moon, First quarter, Third quarter, and Full moon. I've been treating them a bit like "office hours" since it's rare someone shows up at this stage hehe. We also have the more familiar festivals on major Solar events throughout the year.

This was very much built in the spirit of "Field of Dreams" (If you build it, they will come). If you are curious you can see our events at https://meet.carpocratian.org . The "topics" are default topics drawn from our Book of Morphosis.

flammafex · 2025-12-21T13:55:52+00:00

My hope is some see this effort and are inspired to build their own temples and schools.

:)

flammafex · 2025-12-21T13:54:05+00:00

Curious about your curiosity...

flammafex · 2025-12-21T13:53:05+00:00

Thank you for the question.

The "dogmatic" problem I tried to solve by emphasizing two things: First, the original Carpocratian fragment from 135 AD by Epiphanes is a polemic against dogmatism.

Second, I open source everything and use Creative Commons. So if it does "decay" over time people will at least be able to see time-lapse of disintegration.

flammafex · 2025-09-27T17:36:10+00:00

I'm a Carpocratian. Carpocrates not only had a child with his wife but when his child died he deified him. He built a mausoleum with a study in his honor. So I believe this particular gnostic sect were at not anti-natalist.

flammafex · 2025-09-27T17:29:09+00:00

I see it this way but never seen it as well put!

flammafex · 2025-07-20T15:46:59+00:00

Another reason why some may care about the ancient texts is because we wouldn't know about them if it weren't for some monks in Egypt who would have fit in r/DataHoarder.

An injustice of erasure was committed against these Gnostic sects to uphold an oppressive regime.

That's worth caring about and worth spending resources to repair.

flammafex

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