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    "note": "Coptic Gnostic text of the 3rd–4th c., translated into English by G.R.S. Mead (1896). Records dialogues of the risen Christ with his disciples in the years following the resurrection.",
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      "subtitle": "Chapters 1–62 — the descent and first repentances of Pistis Sophia",
      "blurb": "Jesus's eleven post-resurrection years of teaching on the Mount of Olives; the great light-power that descends upon him; his ascent into the heavens; and the unfolding myth of Pistis Sophia — her fall, her oppression by Self-willed and the lion-faced power, and the first repentances by which she begins to ascend.",
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      "subtitle": "Chapters 63–101 — the remaining repentances and the disciples' interpretations",
      "blurb": "Pistis Sophia's twelve further repentances; her songs of praise; Jesus's rescue and re-ascent of Sophia through the æons. Mary, John, Philip, Thomas, and the other disciples interpret Solomon's Odes and the Psalms in light of Sophia's journey.",
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      "name": "Third Book — Mysteries of the Light",
      "author": "Anonymous (Askew Codex)",
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      "subtitle": "Chapters 102–135 — the Mysteries of the Ineffable",
      "blurb": "The mysteries of the Light-kingdom; the proclamation entrusted to the disciples; the limits and the unending forgiveness of those initiated; the apportioning of mysteries; the soul's path through the chastisement-places and the dragons of the outer darkness.",
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      "name": "Fourth Book — Books of the Saviour",
      "author": "Anonymous (Askew Codex)",
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      "form": "Gnostic Christian dialogue",
      "subtitle": "Chapters 136–148 — the Books of the Saviour proper",
      "blurb": "The detailed cosmology of the rulers and the avenging angels; the mystic offering at the altar; the spheres through which the soul passes after death; the rebirth-cycles of sinners; and the unfailing mercy that even the greatest of sinners, repenting, inherits the kingdom.",
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