Secret Book of John · The Full Story of Eden From the Other Side · 3 Hour Sleep Story

The season turns over tonight. For six nights you have heard the same story told by people who believed heaven was above: the sons of heaven came down, they taught, they were judged. Tonight a book from the jar at Nag Hammadi that read all of that and turned it upside down. The Secret Book of John, in which the one who made the world is not the highest thing there is, and does not know it, and the ones who came down to the daughters of men were not rebels against him but his own servants, sent to do exactly what they did. The same descent, the same metals, the same daughters, told from below. A man walking out of the Temple with a question, and a figure on a mountain that is a father and a mother and a son. The one at the top who cannot be named, and every layer beneath him, in order, until you can see how far down the maker sits. The thought that acted alone. The seven with the faces of animals. A man made by a committee of angels, one for each limb, lying on the ground unable to move until they were tricked into giving him the only thing worth having. The tree, the eagle, and the flood, all seen from the other side. Then two more books from the same jar: what Adam told Seth at the end of his life, and the ruler who called himself god of the blind, and Norea, the daughter who would not board the ark and burned it instead. And the name of the maker, said once, slowly, at the moment the book gives it, and then never again. A three hour sleep story, the seventh night of Season Six, The Lost Books.