The Last Supper

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THE LINEAGE OF THE HIDDEN WORD

An Esoteric History of the Primordial Name and Its Bearers

The Hidden Word of Power—a primordial sonic key capable of loosening the bonds of the Illusion—originated in remote antiquity. Its earliest known articulation is attributed to Akhenaten, the heretic pharaoh whose visionary reforms centered on a return to the unmediated radiance behind all visible forms.
To Akhenaten, the Word was not a prayer, but a vibrational bridge to the Real: a sound that bypassed priestly rites and struck directly at the scaffolding of the Demiurge’s design.

From Egypt the Word passed into the traditions of desert ascetics and wanderers. It was stolen by Moses, who recognized in it the unpronounceable Name whose utterance unravels illusions, topples tyrants, and frees consciousness from the bindings of obedience.
This theft, like the myth of Isis extracting the secret name of Ra, became the seed of a new lineage—one built on perilous knowledge rather than sanctioned authority.

The Word of Power and the Covenant of Dominion

When escaping from Egypt, Moses wielded the Word as a pragmatic instrument of power. Its utterance bent reality in limited, directed ways—calling plagues, parting waters, and sustaining the people in the wilderness. These were not acts of compassion alone, but demonstrations of legitimacy: signs that the covenant he claimed was real, enforceable, and backed by an overwhelming authority.

Each miracle carried a cost. The Word could not be spoken continuously without destabilizing the speaker and those who heard it. Moses therefore learned to fracture its use into commands, signs, and ritual gestures, allowing power to manifest without fully unveiling the Word itself. This discipline preserved both his life and the coherence of the people bound to him.

At Sinai, the Word reached its formalization. Moses entered into a pact with Kether, the highest visible emanation of divine sovereignty. In exchange for allegiance, law, and ritual obedience, dominion over the Holy Land was granted. The Ten Commandments were not revelations of inner freedom, but terms of governance—a legal framework anchoring the covenant in human society.

Moses did not use the Word of Power to free humanity from illusion.
He used it to secure authority, territory, and obedience.

Because the Word was too potent to remain in living memory, it was sealed within the Ark of the Covenant—a containment vessel and resonator, not a symbol. The Ark was placed in the Holy of Holies, where only a single priest, under precise conditions, could approach it. Unauthorized proximity did not result in punishment, but in annihilation through metaphysical overload.

When the Babylonians destroyed the First Temple, the priesthood acted before the sanctuary fell. The Word was removed from the Ark and carried into the desert, beyond imperial reach. The Ark left behind was either empty or rendered inert—its covenant severed.

Centuries later, the ascetic John the Baptist rediscovered the Word in the wilderness. Through fasting, trance-submersion, and inherited desert rites, he pierced the veil of identity and recovered a near-complete resonance of the Name.
To John, baptism became a ritual drowning of the false self—an unmaking that prepared the initiate to hear the Word without shattering.

John then transmitted the Word to Jesus, who recognized its true potential: not the conquest of kingdoms, but the liberation of perception itself from the architecture of the Demiurge.

The Last Transmission

On the night of the Last Supper, Jesus entrusted the full resonance of the Hidden Word to those disciples capable of bearing its metaphysical cost. What he divided was not doctrine, but aspects of a cosmic vibration:

Thomas — The Inward Mirror

He received the Word as a reflective blade, a revelation that cuts through the illusion of selfhood.
Thomas understood the Word as a means to see beyond identity, beyond form—into the twin nature of all beings.

Mary Magdalene — The Union of Inner and Outer

To Mary was given the ecstatic, integrative dimension of the Word.
She perceived that separation is a construct of the Illusion and that the divine spark and the material world are not opposites but reflections seeking reunion.

Judas — The Violent Severing

Judas was entrusted with the most dangerous aspect: the anti-structural resonance that shatters obedience, hierarchy, and fear.
His understanding of the Word was an act of rupture—necessary to free the true Christ from the Demiurge’s mechanisms of death.

Peter — The Keeper of the Keys

Unable to bear the formless truth, Peter received the Keys instead: symbols of exoteric authority, mechanisms designed to sustain the Illusion and bind future followers to order and hierarchy.
Peter’s legacy would become the stable, institutional church—while the true Word passed into hidden channels.

After the transmission, Jesus abandoned the flesh, sidestepping the Demiurge’s cycle of death and rebirth. The three bearers of the Word scattered across the world, each carrying a fragment of the primordial resonance that could unravel reality itself.

SUPPORTING FRAMEWORKS

Metaphysical Context for the Hidden Word

1. Egyptian Magic (Heka) and the Power of the Secret Name

In Egyptian thought, Heka is the primal force that makes reality possible—spoken, sung, carved, invoked.
To know the true name (ren) of a thing is to wield power over its nature.
A single utterance, perfectly executed, can command gods or collapse order.

Akhetaten’s reforms sought direct access to the Aten’s radiance, bypassing priesthoods and rituals. This aligns seamlessly with the concept of a pure, original Word that pierces illusion.

Connections to the narrative:

Akhetaten discovers the Ren of Reality—a proto-gnostic insight.
Moses steals this Name, following Egyptian mythic patterns of divine usurpation.
After the First Temple’s fall, the Word becomes a secret relic, preserved only by a remnant.

Thus the Hidden Word emerges as a fusion of Heka, divine Name magic, and solar mysticism.

2. Gnostic Theology and the Transmission of Secret Words

Gnosticism mirrors this lineage.

Core themes that align:

Jesus gives secret teachings to a chosen few.
Salvation comes through gnosis, not obedience.
The Demiurge sustains a false world through enforced ignorance.
A Word that dissolves the Illusion fits the Gnostic philosophy.

Textual echoes:

Gospel of Thomas: sayings that, once understood, prevent death.
Gospel of Mary: hidden teachings accessible only to the worthy.
Gospel of Judas: a revelation that frees the Christ from the constraints of flesh.
Gnostic Logos doctrine: the Word as an awakening vibration.

Role validation:

Thomas: twin of the inner Christ, bearer of introspective gnosis.
Mary: receptor of interior mystical truth, unity beyond separation.
Judas: holder of destructive gnosis, the pathbreaker.
Peter: foundation of the exoteric church, keeper of structure, unable to contain the true Word. The enemy of gnostics.

3. Kult Cosmology — The Word as a Fracture in the Illusion

In Kult, the Illusion is maintained by the Demiurge, the Archons, and the great architectures of Metropolis, Limbo, Inferno, and the Emanations.
A true Name or vibrational key is catastrophic because it reveals:

Matter is scaffolding.
Identity is a mask.
Salvation is awakening, not obedience.

Mapping the story onto Kult metaphysics:

Akhenaten glimpses an Emanation behind Illusion and gives it a name.
Moses uses the Name to make a pact with the Demiurge’s agents.
The Word becomes a semiotic breach, an anomaly from Outside.
John’s baptismal rites reenact the drowning of the constructed false self.
Jesus becomes a radian being, slipping beyond the Demiurge’s death-machinery but imprisoned in Heaven until second coming.

The Last Supper as ritual transmission:

Thomas receives the Word that breaks the self.
Mary receives the Word that dissolves separation.
Judas receives the Word that destroys obedience.
Peter receives the keys that preserve the Illusion.

The stakes in Kult terms are enormous:
those who speak the Word threaten the Demiurge’s entire architecture.

SUMMARY FOR GAME USE

The Hidden Word is the intersection of:

Egyptian heka → the ancient technology of true names.
Gnostic transmission → secret teachings of liberation.
Kult cosmology → a crack in the structure of the Illusion.

Thomas, Mary, and Judas become the three living vectors of the primordial Word—each carrying a fragment strong enough to awaken, to unite, or to break the world.

III. The Failed Ascension — Trick of Kether

Jesus, illuminated by gnosis, attempts to ascend — to free not only himself but all humanity from the false world.
At the moment of transcendence, Kether, the False Crown, deceives him.
Instead of piercing the true Pleroma, Jesus is bound within the radiant prison of Heaven — one of the realms of illusion built by the Demiurge to trap the Awakened.
His death and resurrection become the founding myth of his imprisonment.
The Church that rises in his name worships his cage.

IV. The Shattered Circle — The Disciples’ War

After Jesus’s imprisonment, the twelve disciples fall into conflict.
Each claims to hold the true inheritance of the Master — his teachings, relics, or blood.
Rival factions form:

Peter’s Line seeks earthly power, founding the imperial church.
Thomas departs east, carrying a relic said to hold Jesus’s breath.
Mary Magdalene flees west, guarding the Grail — not a cup, but a shard of his divine essence.
Judas, secretly initiated, vanishes with the Gospel of the Shadow Word.
The unity of the Last Supper collapses; humanity’s hope for collective ascension dies with it.

SCENARIO STRUCTURE

Chapter 1: THE GREEN-EYED WOMAN

Starting Location: New York City

BEGINNING — PC INTRODUCTION (NEW YORK)

Thomas Dumiroir

A brilliant, self-destructive painter living in New York’s underground artscape.

Once destined for greatness, now wasting away in absinthe, vice, and forgeries.
No memories older than 20 years.
Survives events, accidents, and excess that should kill him.
His stamina, intuition, and strange talents seem supernatural — but he believes it’s luck, mania, or artistic inspiration.

The truth (unrevealed yet):
Thomas harbors a hidden inner power that fuels vitality, language ability, survival, and visions. It is dormant but stirring.

Bound Guardians

Two supernatural beings — enemies by nature — are both bound to Thomas.

The Angel

A serif-class entity.
Forced to protect Thomas’s life.
Cannot abandon him or reveal certain truths.
Radiates grief and frustration at his self-destruction.

The Demon

An infernal parasite-class being.
Chained by an ancient geas to Thomas’s preservation.
Would prefer to ruin Thomas, but must serve as protector.
Resents the angel but is equally trapped.

Important Revision:

Neither the demon nor the angel grants Thomas power.
They are reactive protectors, not sources.
His unusual resilience and talents come from Thomas himself, though he does not yet know it.

ACT I — THE PAINTING OF THE GREEN EYES

The Inciting Incident in New York

The Secret Art-Auction Party

A decadent underground NYC auction — half gallery, half occult ritual disguised as performance art.

Among the items:
A 13th-century Provençal panel painting:

A woman in a shawl.
One green eye visible, piercing.
A mountain fortress behind her — later identified as Montségur.
Under ancient frame: a signature, T. D.

Thomas reacts viscerally, almost fainting.

The guardians tense — they know this is the beginning of the loosening of the seal.

The Acquisition Paths

Thomas may:

Forge a fraudulent check and buy the painting.
Steal it during the chaos of the afterparty.
Lose the bid, become obsessed, and later steal it from the Russian mob boss who wins it.

Regardless: Thomas acquires the painting.

The internal force within him stirs.
Dreams begin immediately.

ACT II — THE AWAKENING OF MEMORY

Visions, deterioration, and cracks in the seal

Dreams and Possessions

After the painting enters his apartment:

Thomas dreams in Old Occitan.
Sees Cathars on pyres.
Hears a woman call his name across smoke and time.
Wakes painting compulsively in a style he never learned.

The guardians become distressed, but:

The angel is forbidden to explain.
The demon is incapable of uttering the truth.

Thomas’s New Paintings

He paints:

The green eyed woman always at same age.
Landscapes from different times and places across the globe.
Gnostic and esoteric sigils.
Strange diagrams of cosmology he cannot understand.

These emerge from the power within him, though Thomas attributes it to mania or inspiration.

The External Threats

Russian mob hunts for the stolen painting.
Art Crime Unit grows suspicious.
Occult lodges sense a “sealed sun” radiating from Thomas.
Catholic occultists detect something neither angelic nor demonic — something other.

The Forbidden Aura

Psychic readings cause:

Sudden death
Seizures
Blindness
Fires or electrical failures

These effects come from Thomas’s wards, not the guardians — but this remains hidden from both Thomas and the players until the next chapter.

Identity Cracks

Thomas realizes he:

Cannot recall his childhood.
Has no medical history.
Has inexplicable linguistic fluency.
Has survived multiple lethal situations.
Exhibits bursts of physical resilience.

The guardians grow increasingly nervous:

The angel tries to steer him away from the painting and absinthe.
The demon urges him to embrace it — but for motives it cannot articulate.

Research Clues

Experts identify:

The fortress: Montségur, last Cathar redoubt.
The pigments: authentic to the 13th century.
The technique: renaissance style before the renaissance.
The signature: Thomas Dumiroir, written as a medieval scribe would write it.

Act II Climax

Thomas realizes the key lies in Provence.

THE TWELVE DISCIPLES

The Men of the Apostolic Circle

Simon Peter

Sources: all four Gospels; Acts; Paul
Role: fisherman, leader of the early movement
Profile: Impulsive, outspoken, and one of Jesus’s first followers. Acts portrays him as primary preacher after Jesus’s death. Paul treats him as a central authority figure. Strong likelihood he led the Galilean circle before and after the crucifixion.
Legacy: Symbol of foundational authority.

James son of Zebedee

Sources: Synoptic Gospels; Acts
Role: inner-circle disciple, early martyr
Profile: Fisherman and brother of John. Present at key events like the Transfiguration. Executed early (Acts 12).
Legacy: Represents the earliest martyr phase of the movement.

John son of Zebedee

Sources: Gospels (especially John), Acts, early tradition
Role: close companion, witness
Profile: Member of the inner group. Later Johannine traditions connect him to mystical interpretations of Jesus’s message centered on love, light, and divine wisdom.
Legacy: His memory shaped one of the most influential theological streams.

Andrew

Sources: Gospels; early tradition
Role: first-called disciple
Profile: Former follower of John the Baptist who introduces Peter to Jesus. Functions as a bridge-figure between communities.
Legacy: Traditionally remembered as a missionary to northern and eastern regions.

Thomas Didymos (“The Twin”)

Sources: Synoptic lists; Gospel of John; Nag Hammadi (Gospel of Thomas)
Role: questioner, seeker of understanding
Profile: Known for probing and skeptical questions; in John’s Gospel, he demands direct experiential proof. In the Gospel of Thomas (a major Gnostic text), he is the recipient of Jesus’s secret sayings and is portrayed as the disciple who truly understands.
Legacy: In mystical and Gnostic traditions, Thomas becomes the archetype of the one who seeks—and receives—hidden knowledge.

Simon the Zealot

Sources: Synoptic lists
Role: political radical turned disciple
Profile: Possibly associated with anti-Roman nationalist movements. His presence indicates Jesus’s group drew from diverse ideological backgrounds.
Legacy: Later traditions cast him as a fiery missionary and martyr.

Judas Iscariot

Sources: all four Gospels; Acts
Role: treasurer, betrayer
Profile: A historical member of Jesus’s core group. “Iscariot” may refer to Kerioth or to sicarii. Motives vary across sources—greed, satanic influence, political disillusionment. In the Gospel of Judas, he receives secret teaching and participates in a cosmic drama.
Legacy: Archetypal traitor in orthodox Christianity; esoteric revealer in some Gnostic traditions.

The Women of the Apostolic Circle

Mary Magdalene

Sources: all four Gospels; apocrypha (Gospel of Mary, Pistis Sophia)
Role: principal female disciple; first witness of resurrection
Profile: Most consistently present woman around Jesus. First at the empty tomb. In Gnostic texts, she becomes interpreter of hidden teachings, often opposed by Peter.
Legacy: Embodiment of spiritual insight and early leadership.

Mary of Bethany

Sources: Luke 10; John 11–12
Role: intimate disciple and witness
Profile: Takes the posture of a formal disciple at Jesus’s feet. Her anointing is treated symbolically as preparation for burial.
Legacy: Represents devotion, insight, and prophetic action.

Martha of Bethany

Sources: Luke 10; John 11–12
Role: host, leader, confessor of faith
Profile: Manages the Bethany household. In John 11, she confesses Jesus as the Messiah—one of the most explicit doctrinal statements in the Gospels.
Legacy: Prototype of leadership in hospitality-based house churches.

Joanna (wife of Chuza)

Sources: Luke 8:1–3; Luke 24
Role: wealthy patron and early witness
Profile: A woman of high social position from Herod Antipas’s household. Travels with Jesus and funds the ministry. Present among the first witnesses of the empty tomb.
Legacy: Demonstrates Christianity’s reach across social boundaries.

Junia

Sources: Romans 16:7
Role: apostle in the Pauline mission
Profile: Called “outstanding among the apostles” by Paul—the earliest Christian author. Her name was later altered by scribes, reflecting discomfort with acknowledged female leadership.
Legacy: Evidence that women held apostolic authority from the beginning.

THE LAST SUPPER — REWRITTEN

The upper room was already dim when they gathered, the lamps flickering in the warm air.
The city outside hummed with festival noise, but inside the small chamber the air was tense and expectant, as if all of them sensed that this night would seal something they could not yet name.

Jesus sat at the center, not raised above the others, but close enough that they could hear every breath.
Around him, the Twelve took their places.

✦ The Gathering

Peter sat nearest the door, always watchful.
James and John took their old places by habit, the brothers quiet for once.
Andrew lingered behind them, face drawn in worry.

Philip sat opposite Jesus, arms folded, as if weighing every word that might be said.
Beside him, Simon the Zealot kept glancing at the street below, hearing dangers only he anticipated.

The women came together, but not as a separate group — as equals who knew they belonged.

Mary Magdalene took her place near the center, meeting Jesus’s eyes with the familiarity of long friendship.
Mary of Bethany sat at his left, calm and steady, hands folded in her lap.
Martha brought in wine and bread with Joanna’s help, then sat beside her sister, her posture dignified and still.
Susanna slipped in quietly, listening more than speaking, but her gaze never left the table.
Junia arrived last, carrying a small oil lamp, and set it where the shadows pooled.

When all had settled, Jesus rose.

✦ The Words Over the Bread

He took the flat loaf in his hands and held it where they could all see.

“You know how long I have desired to share this meal with you,” he said.
“You have followed me from the villages of Galilee to this place.
You have seen the great crowds, and the times when no one remained but us.
Tonight, I give you what I have given no others.”

His voice trembled slightly, though his hands were steady.

He broke the bread.

“Take this, all of you.
Share it between yourselves.
As this bread is broken, so my life is given for you.
Wherever you go, remember this night.”

He placed the first portion before Mary Magdalene, then Peter, then the rest in no fixed order, letting them pass the pieces among themselves.

Each took bread from another’s hand — Philip from Joanna, Simon from Martha, Susanna from Andrew — until the circle became a single movement.

✦ The Cup Passed in Turn

Then Jesus lifted the cup.

“This cup is the sign of a new covenant,” he said.
“Not written on stone or handed down by rulers,
but carried in the hearts of those who know the truth.”

He handed the cup first to Mary of Bethany, who met his eyes with calm understanding.
She drank and passed it to James, who hesitated before raising it.
From hand to hand it moved:

Martha → John → Junia → Peter → Philip → Simon → Susanna → Andrew → Joanna → Mary Magdalene,
and finally back to Jesus.

For a moment the room was silent except for the sound of the city below.

✦ The Conversation

When they had eaten, they spoke freely, as they had so many nights before — though never with such weight.

Peter pressed for clarity:
“Lord, what happens when they come for you?”

Jesus answered gently:
“You must stand when I cannot.
You must speak when I am silent.”

Mary Magdalene leaned forward:
“Then teach us tonight what we must carry after you are gone.”

He nodded, as if expecting this.
“The truth I have spoken in parables, I speak to you plainly:
The kingdom is near, nearer than breath, but the world will not see it easily.”

Junia asked:
“If we scatter, how will we know the path?”

“You will know,” he said. “Each according to the measure given you.”

Martha’s voice broke the silence next:
“Then let us remain faithful, whatever comes.”

He rested his hand on hers in gratitude.

✦ The Shadow Over the Room

As the lamps sputtered low, a heaviness settled among them.
Jesus’s face was solemn but peaceful.

“One of you will hand me over,” he said.

A murmur passed through the room.
Mary of Bethany’s breath caught; Andrew whispered a prayer.
Joanna looked sharply toward the stairwell.

But Jesus raised his hand.

“Do not fear.
What must come will come.
You, my friends, must remain steadfast.
After tonight, you will not all walk the same roads,
but this night binds you together.”

He looked to each in turn:
Peter’s fire; John’s thoughtfulness; Mary’s calm insight; Martha’s strength; Philip’s questions; Junia’s resolve; Joanna’s loyalty; Simon’s fierce conviction; Susanna’s quiet perception.

“Remember this:
Where you go, I go.
What you bear, I bear.”

✦ The End of the Meal

They sang a psalm together — voices braided, imperfect, but united.
The city noise continued, unaware of the moment unfolding above it.

When they rose from the table, Mary Magdalene held Jesus’s gaze, as if to commit his face to memory.
Peter clenched his fists, ready for whatever danger pressed near.
Martha extinguished the lamp; Junia gathered the cups; Joanna wrapped the leftover bread.

Jesus stepped toward the door.

“Let us go,” he said softly.
“The hour has come.”

And the Twelve followed him into the darkness of Jerusalem’s streets,
each carrying a piece of what had been shared in the room above the city —
bread, wine, memory, and a bond that none of them yet understood.

list of historical esoteric or fringe Christian sects that could plausibly be interpreted—as a secret meta-history for your campaign—as founded or guided by reincarnations of Thomas, Mary Magdalene, and Judas, each carrying their aspect of the Word of Power for 2,000 years.

I list them by disciple and match each cult/sect to the three aspects of the Word:

Thomas – The Inward Mirror: inward gnosis, self-annihilation, contemplative illumination.
Mary – The Union of Inner and Outer: bridal mysticism, sacred eros, visionary experience, healing.
Judas – The Violent Severing: antinomianism, world-breaking revelation, confrontation with authority, ecstatic rupture.

This gives you a fully integrated “secret history of Christianity” suitable for Kult, gnosticism, or Last-Supper mythos.

I. SECTS AND CULTS FOUNDED BY THOMAS (THE INWARD MIRROR)

Theme: dissolution of the ego, mystical interiority, self-knowledge as salvation.

1. The Thomasine Christians (1st–4th century Syria–Mesopotamia)

Why Thomas?
The Gospel of Thomas is purely inward: “If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you.”
Perfect match for Inward Mirror doctrine.

Shadow history:
Your Thomas-in-exile is the real founder who transmitted the Word coded as short paradoxical sayings.

2. The Manichaeans (3rd–15th century, Persia → Mediterranean)

Why Thomas?
Mani saw himself as the successor of Thomas’s apostolic line.
They taught strict interior purification and dual gnosis.

Word aspect:
Ego-dissolving asceticism mirrors Thomas’s path.

3. East Syrian “Twin” Mystics (3rd–8th century, Persia/India)

These groups revered Thomas as Didymos—the Twin of Christ, viewing enlightenment as becoming the “twin” of one’s divine self.

Why Thomas?
“Recognize your double” = Inward Mirror.

4. The Hesychasts (10th–14th century, Byzantine Empire)

Known for inner light meditation (“Prayer of the Heart”) and self-emptying.

Secret layer:
A Thomas-incarnation could have introduced their core technique, reframed as the echo of the Word.

5. The Bogomils (10th–15th century, Balkans)

Dualist ascetics obsessed with inner purity, simplicity, and rejection of material illusion.

Why Thomas?
Breaks false identity; rejects the ego of institutions.

6. The Cathars (12th–14th century, France & Italy)

Preached that the visible world is illusion and salvation occurs by inward awakening.

Why Thomas?
Pure Thomasine anti-illusionism.
A reincarnated Thomas could easily be their secret “Perfecti” teacher.

7. The Russian “Name Worshippers” (Imyaslavie) (20th century)

Taught that the Name of God is God, and chanting it reveals the divine within.

Why Thomas?
Self dissolves into the Word = perfect lineage of the Inward Mirror aspect.

II. SECTS AND CULTS FOUNDED BY MARY MAGDALENE (THE UNION OF INNER AND OUTER)

Theme: sacred union, healing, ecstatic mysticism, bridging material and spiritual worlds.

1. The Valentinian Gnostics (2nd–4th century Mediterranean)

Emphasized syzygies (divine male–female pairs), spiritual union, and inner sacraments.

Why Mary?
Their ritual “bridal chamber” echoes Mary’s doctrine: union dissolves separation.

2. The Marcionites (2nd–5th century)

Taught radical compassion, rejection of judgment, and a divine love not bound by Law.

Why Mary?
Her aspect of the Word breaks the illusion of separation between divine and human by grace without fear.

3. The Carpocratians (2nd century, Alexandria)

Taught that salvation comes through transcending all earthly divisions and performing acts free of social taboo.

Why Mary?
Union of inner/outer; holiness found in both spirit and matter.

4. Syriac Christian Women’s Mystical Movements (3rd–7th century)

Notably female-led healers, prophets, and ascetics.

Why Mary?
Ideal historical anchor for a reincarnated Magdalene who teaches sacred embodiment.

5. Medieval Christian Beguines (12th–14th century, Low Countries/France)

Women mystics emphasizing love mysticism, ecstatic union, and interior visions.

Why Mary?
Their writings (Mechthild, Hadewijch) read like Magdalene-gnosis disguised as orthodoxy.

6. The Brethren of the Free Spirit (13th–14th century)

Taught that enlightened souls are one with God and free from all separation or sin.

Why Mary?
Radical mystical union; dissolves boundaries between human/divine.

7. The Shakers (18th century America)

Led by a visionary woman (Mother Ann Lee) who preached divine dual-gendered unity.

Why Mary?
Their theology = literal “inner/outer” union of God’s energies.

8. Brazilian Spiritist Christian Mysticism (19th–20th century)

Emphasizes healing, charity, mediumistic visions, and blending material/spiritual planes.

Why Mary?
Union of worlds; healing as the manifestation of spiritual unity.

III. SECTS AND CULTS FOUNDED BY JUDAS (THE VIOLENT SEVERING)

Theme: rupture, rebellion, breaking obedience, confronting institutions, apocalyptic unveiling.

Judas’s line represents dangerous gnosis—the part of the Word that destroys the structures of fear and obedience.

1. The Cainites (2nd century)

A real gnostic sect that venerated Judas as the only disciple who understood Jesus.

Why Judas?
Obvious match—this is literally his own cult in your lore.

2. The Carpocratian Antinomians (2nd century, Alexandria)

Believed that breaking social and religious laws frees the soul from the archons’ control.

Why Judas?
Perfect embodiment of severing obedience through transgression.

3. The Paulician Rebels (7th–10th century Armenia)

Militant dualists who rebelled against both Byzantine and Muslim authorities.

Why Judas?
Revolt as spiritual purification; severing chains through violence.

4. The Tondrakians (9th–11th century Armenia)

Anti-clerical, anti-institutional, egalitarian, destroyed churches as symbols of oppression.

Why Judas?
Literal demolition of the Illusion’s structures.

5. The Münster Anabaptists (16th century Germany)

Apocalyptic, violent, world-breaking sect that tried to overthrow civic order.

Why Judas?
Severing obedience, embracing destructive revelation.

6. The Ranters & Antinomian Sects (17th century England)

Believed that sin is an illusion, all things permitted, institutions meaningless.

Why Judas?
Renders obedience void; spiritual anarchism.

7. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Rebels (19th century China)

Syncretic Christian movement that launched a massive rebellion and proclaimed the fall of worldly rule.

Why Judas?
Rebellion as eschatological severing.

8. Russian Skoptsy (18th–20th century)

Practiced self-mutilation to sever themselves from the Demiurge’s dominion of the flesh.

Why Judas?
Violent rupture of bodily and social obedience.

9. Modern Apocalyptic Christian Survivalist Sects (20th–21st century)

Some groups reject government, break with social order, and await violent purification.

Why Judas?
Contemporary echoes of the Severing.

SYNTHESIS — THE SECRET GNOSTIC FAMILY TREE

Thomas’s Line (Inward Mirror)

Thomasines
Manichaeans
Eastern Twin Mystics
Hesychasts
Bogomils
Cathars
Name-worshippers

Traits: inward light, meditation, ego dissolution, anti-illusion.

Mary’s Line (Union of Inner and Outer)

Valentinians
Marcionites
Carpocratians (mystical branch)
Syriac women’s mystics
Beguines
Free Spirit
Shakers
Spiritists

Traits: sacred union, healing, visionary embodiment, compassion.

Judas’s Line (Violent Severing)

Cainites
Carpocratians (antinomian branch)
Paulicians
Tondrakians
Münster Anabaptists
Ranters
Taiping rebels
Skoptsy
Modern apocalyptic sects

Traits: rebellion, rupture, taboo-breaking, destruction of false authority.