The Unexpected Cosmology

The Incredible Vision of Saint Drythelm - THE INCREDIBLE VISION OF ST. DRYTHELM   This text is from the eighth-century Anglo-Saxon monk and scholar Bede from his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The Vision of Drythelm is far more developed as a journey and gives a fuller account of otherworld topography, even foreshadowing the purgatorial landscapes of the twelfth and thirteenth […]

The Vision of Laisren - This vision is in Old Irish and only this fragment remains of the MS. It is dated from the late 9th century to the early 10th century. The figure of Laisren is probably the Abbot of Leighlin, Carlow. He died in 638AD, thus making this MS an Irish Apocryphal work. 1 ONCE upon a time […]

The Narrative of Zosimus - The Narrative of Zosimus The Narrative of Zosimus Concerning the Life of the Blessed 1 About that time there was in the desert a certain man named Zosimus, who for forty years ate no bread, and drank no wine, and saw not the face of man. This man was entreating Elohiym that he might see […]

The Apocalypse of Zephaniah - The Apocalypse of Zephaniah The scene in the fifth heaven.   And a spirit took me and brought me up into the fifth heaven. And I saw angels who are called “adonai.” And the diadem was set upon them in the Ruach HaQodesh, and the throne of each of them was sevenfold more brilliant than the […]

The Apocalypse of Thomas - PDF: The Apocalypse of Thomas HERE begins the epistle of Adonai unto Ta’om. Hear thou, Ta’om, the things which must come to pass in the last times: there shall be famine and war and earthquakes in divers places, snow and ice and great drought shall there be and many dissensions among the peoples, blasphemy, iniquity, […]

The Vision of Paul - The Vision of Paul Here Begins the Vision of Pa’al the Apostle. 1 At what time was this revelation made? In the consulship of TheodosiusAugustus the Younger and Cynegius, a certain nobleman then living in Tarsus, in the house which was that of Saint Pa’al, an angel appearing in the night revealed to him, saying that […]

The Coptic Apocalypse of Paul -

The Acts of Paul and Thecla - PDF: The Acts of Paul and Thecla As Pa’al was going up to Iconium after the flight from Antioch, his fellow-travelers were Demas and Ermogenes, full of hypocrisy; and they were importunate with Pa’al, as if they loved him. But Pa’al, looking only to the goodness of Ha’Mashiach, did them no harm, but loved them […]

The Martyrdom of Polycarp - PDF: The Martyrdom of Polycarp Greeting, The Church of Theos which sojourns at Smyrna, to the Church of Theos sojourning in Philomelium, and to all the congregations of the Holy and Catholic Church in every place: Mercy, peace, and love from Theos the Father, and our Lord Iesus Christ, be multiplied. 1 We have written […]

The Passion of Saint Christopher - PDF: The Passion of Saint Christopher 1 There was a persecution of Christians in time of the emperor Decius, and the holy man Christopher was taken and tortured like the others. Christopher was exceedingly wise and had observed that the Lord assisted those of the heathen who believed just as much as he assisted Christians. […]