243: Pistis Sophia

Bledsoe Said So

Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 539 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Ryan and Alex dive into the Coptic Nag Hammadi text Pistis Sophia, a 3rd–4th century work that presents a radically different vision of Jesus Christ and the cosmos. Set 11 years after the resurrection, it portrays Jesus as a radiant being of light teaching his disciples, especially Mary Magdalene, about his journey through heavenly realms and the redemption of Sophia, a divine figure who fell into the darkness and must rise again through repentance.

They unpack this deeply symbolic story as an allegory for humanity’s fall into material existence and a blueprint for spiritual ascent, exploring themes of purification, enlightenment, and the hidden mysteries of the light.

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0:00.0	Weird things happen in the backyard of the Blitzow House.
0:09.0	This is so weird.
0:12.0	Wow. Welcome to Bledso-Set-so again.
0:29.6	Thank you for tuning in.
0:31.6	Yes, again.
0:32.3	Why is that so funny, Alex?
0:34.1	It is again.
0:34.8	It's not the word that's funny is the way you said again.
0:37.2	It's like the 200-something again that that's funny is the way you said again.
0:53.0	It's like the 200 something again that they've tuned into the show. Welcome back again. What are we at? We're at above 250 right now, right? 243. Oh, okay. I don't even know anymore. I don't pay attention to that. Alex and Jenny handle all that stuff. I just know it's almost 250. and that's exciting.
0:55.1	It's crazy.
0:56.4	We're coming up on five years.
0:56.4	Um, stuff. I just know it's almost 250 and that's exciting. It's crazy. We're coming up on five years.
1:05.4	This June will be five years. We've, we've been working on it five years. We started on it in January, officially in January of 2021, all the planning, all the preparation, getting the branding, all that
1:12.3	stuff, the music, doing research on equipment. We need, all that good stuff. And then we launched
1:17.3	in June of 2021. So we're coming up on five years. It's so crazy, man. And I think it's easy to get
1:23.6	lost in the weeds of what we've been doing. And I just step back and I think about that.
1:28.8	And I have a hard time understanding that it's been five years.
1:32.1	If you really think about it, that's longer than college, longer than high school, longer than any, you know, version of school, middle school, elementary school, whatever.
1:39.9	It's crazy to think about how long we've been doing this.
1:43.9	And sometimes it feels like yesterday we just started, you know.
1:48.0	It's just crazy.
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