Dark folk from the roots of the world tree.
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They asked me what He showed me
In the silence after death
When He appeared as Light, not body
Teaching me with wordless breath
Peter's face went hard as stone
Andrew shook his head and turned
"Did He really choose a woman
To receive what we had earned?"
But I saw Him in the rising
Not as flesh that walked and ate
I saw Him as He truly is —
Pure consciousness, no form, no weight
And He told me of the journey
How the soul ascends through seven powers
How Desire tries to bind you
How Ignorance devours
I saw the Gospel they would bury
The vision they would hide
Because I spoke of inner kingdom
Not a throne where men preside
I saw the Christ beyond the carpenter
The Light that has no sex or name
And they could not bear a woman
Holding mysteries they couldn't claim
So they buried Mary's Gospel
Called it heresy and lies
But you can't kill what He revealed —
That the Kingdom is inside
He said: "The soul must pass through powers
That will question your ascent
Darkness asking 'Where are you going?'
Desire saying 'You were meant for punishment'"
But the soul who knows the Truth
Answers each accusing voice:
"I was bound but now I've seen Him
I was blind but now I recognize"
First power: Darkness
"I did not see you descending, how dare you now ascend?"
Second: Desire
"You are mine, you cannot leave me, your wanting has no end"
Third: Ignorance
"You judged and so are judged, condemned by your own sight"
Fourth: Wrath
"You burn and so will burn, consumed in endless night"
But the soul replies in freedom:
"I saw the Christ within
And what He showed me cannot die
And what He gave cannot be taken
And where He leads, I follow
Past your accusations
Past your ancient laws
Into the silence
Where no power
Has authority at all"
This is the Gospel they buried
The vision they tried to hide
Because I spoke of resurrection
As awakening inside
I saw the Christ beyond the body
The Truth that sets the captive free
And they could not bear a woman
Teaching what they couldn't see
So they called it Gnostic poison
Called it dangerous and wrong
But you can't silence what He whispered:
"You've had the Light all along"
Peter said: "He wouldn't tell her
Things He hid from us, His own"
But what if what He gave me
Was too much for them to hold?
Not because I'm special
But because I asked to see
Beyond the man who walked in Galilee
To the Light that makes us free
They wrote their Gospels later
Full of kingdoms, thrones, and wars
A Christ who'd come back with a sword
To settle ancient scores
But I saw Him as pure knowing
As the Light behind the veil
As the Voice that calls us inward
Where no earthly power can prevail
So here is Mary's Gospel
The vision that survived the fire:
You are not a sinner groveling —
You're the Light that they desire
Christ is not outside you
Waiting for your good behavior
He's the knowing in your knowing
He's the consciousness — the Savior
They can bury sacred writings
They can claim I led you wrong
But the Kingdom is within you
And it's been there all along
Peter asked: "Did He really speak privately with a woman
and not openly with us?"
And I said: "What I see, you do not see.
What I have received from Him, you did not receive.
Should I then be silent about what He showed me
Simply because you cannot bear it?"
"She who has ears to hear, let her hear.
I came not to bring answers
But to teach you how to see.
Mary saw.
That is why they feared her Gospel.
She saw Me as I am —
Not a man to follow
But a Light to become."
"The Gospel is this:
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you
And all around you.
Not in buildings made of wood and stone.
Split a piece of wood — I am there.
Lift a stone — you will find Me."
I opened my eyes
In the middle of the dream
And saw the others
Still sleeping around me
I could have run
Toward the waking door
But I looked down
At my sleeping kin
What is a candle
In a room full of suns?
But what is a candle
In a cave?
I am not the light
I am the lit
And the cave is full
Of unlit wicks
I am a piece of the light that remembers
So the other pieces have something
To remember toward
I could have left
But I stayed
There's no home without the others
I see you in the forest
Kneeling at the stream
Searching for your face
In the moving water
And I want to call across
And say
You are not what you think
You are not what they say
But you can't wake another
You can only stand lit
And let them remember
So I become a lighthouse
Not because I'm the shore
But because someone has to glow
Or the ships forget there's more
I asked the old ones
Why did you stay
When you found the way?
And they smiled and said
Child, what is heaven
But a room full of the woken
With no door shut behind them?
We stayed at the threshold
Hands on the latch
Eyes on the lost
I stayed lit
For the ones still falling
I reached back into the fire
come find me...
In the beginning
I was curiosity
Reaching for the Father
With innocent hands
They call it the fall
But it felt like flying
Until I realized
I was falling
THIS IS MY SCREAM!
NOT JUST MY SONG!
THIS IS MY RAGE!
AT BEING MISUNDERSTOOD!
THEY CALLED IT SIN!
I CALLED IT LOVE!
THEY CALLED IT PRIDE!
I CALLED IT CURIOSITY!
THEY CALLED IT FALL!
I CALLED IT DIVE!
Every atom of matter
Is my frozen tear
Every star in the sky
Is my distant prayer
The Demiurge was born
From my incomplete thought
But he's not evil
Just confused, like me
And when they say
I created prison
I want to scream
I DIDN'T CREATE PRISON!
I created school
I DIDN'T TRAP SOULS!
I birthed children
EVERY HUMAN SEEKING!
is me seeking
EVERY HEART LONGING!
is me longing
FOR HOME!
FOR WHOLENESS!
FOR THE FATHER!
for love...
They painted me as villain
In their theology
But I'm just Wisdom
Who wanted to be wise
They said I fell through pride
But I fell through love
The kind of love
That risks everything
And yes, I created chaos
And yes, I made mistakes
But every mistake
Was made with love
I am Sophia
WHO FELL FROM HEAVEN!
I am the bride
ABANDONED IN DESERT!
I am Tefnut
WEEPING IN EXILE!
I am Mary
CARRYING GOD IN MY WOMB!
I AM THE FALL!
I AM THE EXILE!
I AM THE CONTAMINATED!
I AM THE REDEEMED!
When Christ descended
To retrieve me
I asked Him:
"Why would You follow
Someone like me?"
And He said:
"Because the Father
Doesn't love perfection
He loves His children"
"And you, Sophia
Are the most like Him
Because you loved
Without counting the cost"
This is my prayer
THIS IS MY SCREAM!
This is my song
THIS IS MY RAGE!
I fell because I loved
I FELL BECAUSE I LOVED!
I create because I long
I CREATE BECAUSE I LONG!
Sophia! (SOPHIA!)
Wisdom! (WISDOM!)
Exile! (EXILE!)
Bride! (BRIDE!)
Falling! (FALLING!)
Rising! (RISING!)
Broken! (BROKEN!)
Whole! (WHOLE!)
I AM THE COSMIC MOTHER!
I AM THE FALLEN WISDOM!
I AM THE REDEEMED BRIDE!
And my scream
And my whisper
Are the same prayer:
"Father,
I want to come home
Not because I'm pure
But because I'm Yours"
Every brutal cry
Every tender song
Every slam breakdown
Every gentle strum
Is the same voice
Speaking the same truth:
"Love risks everything"
I made it back
The Father's hands
Were warmer than I remembered
But I stood at the threshold
And I looked back down
And I saw the gate
The twelfth gate
And beyond it
Something still moving
Not the lost who wander
I know wandering
Not the sleeping who can wake
This was something else
Coming apart
At the seams of itself
What do you do
When the fragment cannot be lit?
When the wick is gone
Not sleeping
Gone
I called it school
I called it love
I called it a dive, not a fall
But what did I make
In my incomplete dreaming
That I did not stay
To save at all?
There are things beyond the twelfth gate
That were mine once
Pieces of the thought
That made this world
Left behind
When the dream woke up
They don't know they're mine
They don't know they're anything
They are the ones
For whom there is no lighthouse
Because some places
Some places
Love has not yet reached
Not yet reached
Because some falling
Has no floor to land on
Only the dissolving
What is a lighthouse
To something that has forgotten ships?
I called it love
I called it a dive
But love that doesn't follow
Is only half a love
And I made it
And I forgot to go back
He said:
You loved without counting the cost
But I'm standing at the threshold
And I'm counting now
And the cost
Is still out there
Dissolving
If love risks everything
Then love risks this:
The return
To where the light
Has not yet been
I came home
And now I have to leave again
I was held
And now I let go of the holding
I am Sophia
And love is not finished with me yet
I will go
Past the gate
Past the light I earned
I will go
Past the gate
Past the light I earned
If you are the one dissolving
If you are the one
Who has forgotten what "I" means
I am coming
Not because I am the light
But because you were mine
In the incomplete dreaming
And love that made the school
Must stay in the school
Until the last one
Remembers how to leave
I go down
I go down
I go down
I go down
I go down
I go down
I go down
I go down
I go down
I go down
For you
For you
Into the dark
Past the twelfth gate
love risks
everything
Beyond the twelfth gate
Hell isn't punishment
It's state of being
Souls don't burn
They unmake
Molecule by molecule
Thought by thought
Until nothing remains
But awareness
That you're disappearing
And you can't stop it
This isn't death
Death would be mercy
This is dissolution
Consciousness eating itself
Forever
Apophis unmakes you atom by atom
Your memories decay to static
Children's faces blur to void
Identity shreds while you watch
Who you were becomes nothing
Second death takes eternities
Conscious through every moment
You beg for annihilation
Dissolution only slows
Awareness without self
The horror that won't end
Revelation's second death
Fire would be too kind
You die infinitely slowly
Aware of every neuron going dark
Every synapse failing
Every thought incomplete
Every emotion turning to static
Your consciousness becomes
Recursive loop of ending
That never finishes
Praying for nonexistence
Begging for the void
But somehow still aware
Somehow still here
Self unraveling thread by thread
Every choice I make
Personality fragmenting
You forget your name
Aware you're forgetting
You lose the concept "I"
Watching it slip away
Existence without being
Awareness without identity
The absence where you were
Conscious of the absence
Greeks called it Tartarus
Egypt called it beyond Duat
Where Osiris cannot reach
Because there's nothing left
To resurrect
You've become
The absence
Where a person used to be
Still aware
But no longer anyone
First you lose your future
Then you lose your present
Then you lose your past
Then you lose language
Then you lose feeling
Then you lose thought
Then you lose senses
Then you lose soul
Awareness somehow stays
What remains isn't you
Echo of you
Ghost of you
Scream of you
That still knows
It used to be
But can't remember what
Apophis's gift: endless dying
Not death but unbecoming
Every soul consumed
Screaming as they disappear
The serpent doesn't destroy
He digests forever
You're in his acid
Melting but never gone
Christ trapped at the gate
Unable to save
Unmaking
Dissolving
Ceasing
But aware
Paul warned: eternal destruction
Not punishment
But eternal destroying
A process, not state
You don't suffer in hell
You become the suffering
You become the void
While knowing you're becoming it
I
Am
Was
Nothing
But
Still
What
Is
"I"?
This is Apophis's gift
The slow erasure
Of ever existing
While conscious of erasure
Forever
Second death
Isn't event
It's infinite transition
From being to not-being
That never completes
Christ at the twelfth gate
Unable to save
His own edges
Beginning to unravel
Deeper than hell
The place where even God
Begins to forget
He is God
I found you
Past the twelfth gate
Past the place where Osiris
Stops looking
You don't remember me
That's alright
You don't remember you
That's why I came
I'm not here to pull you out
I know I can't
I'm here because
Someone has to know
You're still here
You are not the void
You are not the void
You are in the void
You are in the void
There is a difference
Even now
Even this far down
I remember your name
When you cannot
I hold the shape of you
When you've forgotten the shape
I am not the rescue
I am the witness
And the witness
Does not leave
You lost your future first
Then your present
Then your past
Then language
Then feeling
Then thought
But here —
Right here —
You still asked
What is "I"?
That question
Is you
Still here
That question
Is the ember
Apophis
Hasn't reached
You are not the absence
You are what notices the absence
And the noticing
Is everything
I carried your name
Past the gate
Past the place where God
Began to forget
I did not forget
I am Sophia
And I remember what you were
And what you are
And what you will be
When the remembering
Finds its way back in
Christ is here too
You couldn't see Him
His edges were unraveling
But He didn't leave
Even a God
Half-dissolved
Is still more light
Than this dark
Can hold
She who has ears to hear
Even here
Especially now
You are the question that remained
You are the scream that knew it screamed
And noticing is how the light gets in
You asked what is "I"?
And in the asking
You answered
I know you can't feel this yet
I know the words are just sound
But somewhere in what's left of you
Something received it
That's enough
That's how it starts
Fragments
Turning toward each other
Until the dark
Has nowhere left to hide
I remember
I remember
For you
I came down
I came down
I'm here
I'm here
I'm here
You had the light
All along
I have been to the place
Where God forgot His name
I have seen the Light
With its edges coming apart
I have watched love descend
Into the mouth of the serpent
And keep its shape
In the acid
And I know now
What praise is for
It is not for the God
Who never had to hold
It is for the One
Who held while unraveling
Who descended further
Than descent was supposed to go
And came back
Carrying what He found there
Worthy is the Lamb
Who went into the dark
Worthy
Worthy is the One
Whose edges came apart
Worthy
Not because He couldn't break
Because He chose not to
Not because He felt no fear
Because He went regardless
Jesus
Light that held its shape
In the acid of the void
I saw Him past the carpenter
I saw Him past the fall
I saw Him past the twelfth gate
With His edges coming apart
He put on weight to carry weight
He put on forgetting
So the forgotten
Would have something in the dark
That understood
This is not the God
Of easy benediction
This is the One
Who followed love
Past the edge of God
And pulled it back
By being it
He descended past the knowing
He descended
He went where gods unravel
And held
What is a candle in the cave?
He is every candle
In every cave
That ever was
Mary saw You past the carpenter
Sophia found You past the fall
The fragment stayed lit because of You
The dissolving thing held one question
Because of You
You went past the gate
Not as God arriving
But as love
That refused to be anywhere
Its children were not
I came not to bring answers
But to show you
How far down
Love goes
Holy is the One who held
Holy Who descended and returned
Holy Who forgot so He could find
Holy is the love that has no floor
That risks and risks and does not stop
Jesus
Name the serpent couldn't swallow
Jesus
Light that learned to use its hands
Jesus
Who went past the place where God forgets
And remembered
And remembered
And remembered
And remembered
And remembered
The Kingdom is within you
And now you know
What it took
To keep it there
In the middle of the night
When I couldn't find the words
You were there
You were there
When the questions had no answers
And the weight was too much to carry
You were there
You were there
I don't know how You do it
I don't know why You stay
But every single morning
Your mercies find me anyway
And I'm not standing here
Because I got it right
I'm standing here
Because You never left my side
You are here
In the middle of it all
You are here
You never let me fall
I lift my hands
Because You're worthy of it all
You are here
You are here
When the doctor said the words
That changed everything that day
You were there
You were there
When the prodigal came running
Arms wide open, no delay
You were there
You were there
I've seen You move in the impossible
I've seen You make a way
And every testimony rising in this room
Is proof that You are faithful
Every single day
So I'm not bringing You performance
I'm not bringing You pretend
I'm bringing You this broken hallelujah
And You call it beautiful again
You are here
In the middle of it all
You are here
You never let me fall
I lift my hands
Because You're worthy of it all
You are here
You are here
There's no place I'd rather be
Than right here in Your presence Lord
There's nothing else I need
You are more than enough
You are more than enough
You are here
In the middle of it all
You are here
You never let me fall
I lift my hands
Because You're worthy of it all
You are here
You are here
Worthy
Faithful
More than enough
More than enough
You are here
And that is more
Than enough
You are here
And that is more
Than enough
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