Important texts.
Clear context.
Discover non-canonical and historically contested spiritual texts — presented beautifully, sourced carefully, and made readable.
Texts worth
opening.
A small selection from the archive. Start with the text that catches you, then go deeper if you want to.
The Gospel of Thomas
Read the complete text with provenance, manuscript context and the major scholarly uncertainties stated clearly.
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Read the surviving text with every major lacuna marked, plus manuscript context and the key scholarly uncertainties stated clearly.
Get the edition →The Second Book of Enoch
Ten heavens. A man become an angel. The secrets of creation. All suppressed.
Explore the record →The Secret Book of John
A source-first guide to one of the most influential surviving works associated with Sethian Gnostic tradition: four witnesses, two recensions, one difficult cosmology made readable.
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MANUSCRIPT / SOURCE / CONTEXTSource before
story.
These texts attract extraordinary claims. Codex ISO gives you the source first: what survives, where it came from, and where the evidence ends.
The Gospel
of Thomas.
A complete digital reading edition of the 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, paired with manuscript context, a source dossier and notes that separate evidence from interpretation.
THE GOSPEL
OF THOMAS
CODEX ISO EDITION 001
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