TLDR: Majority of this post will be showing 28 mini correspondences since many people won't click the link and read/investigate the full paper. The actual post preceding the correspondences is not that long.
FOR ONCE, this is proof and not opinion.
Forget everything you thought you knew.
It will hold you back with this new info.
This info has been obtainable for almost 200 years now ever since the Bruce Codex was discovered and translated half a century later in 1851. No one has put this together until now. In 2026.
https://archive.org/details/major-parallels-pistis-sophia-and-dc
https://archive.org/details/major-parallels-pistis-sophia-and-dc
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Everyone wants proof. Evidence. Throughout our lives we usually gather information we like and believe and form our opinion of the supernatural. We watch all the Youtube videos or read books until we are satisfied with our opinion. But even then we continue to seek because the search is endless and the absolute truth is elusive and forever like a dangling carrot right in front of us. So we search. Endlessly. Such is our fate.
But again, please, DROP EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW. At least for a second.
I found 50+ major parallels between an ancient book and a more recent book from the 1800's. Jesus is the main speaker in both books and these parallels are proof Jesus is giving the same message in both books.
Ancient book: Pistis Sophia (300+ pages)
1800's book: Doctrine and Covenants (250+ pages)
Both of these cover the same material again and again, subject after subject. And they have no contradictions. There was NO WAY for them to borrow from each other after examining the timeline of events.
Now if Jesus is speaking in two different books, then you expect him to be giving the same gospel, correct? That is precisely the case here.
Jesus explains the same universe, path to salvation, physics of light, and plenty of other things. He unfolds these topics in the same manner.
The 1800's book, the Doctrine and Covenants, was written by Joseph Smith. The Doctrine and Covenants is 130+ revelations Joseph Smith received from Jesus and God.
I noticed a lot of people have an issue with Joseph Smith. But again, opinions and alleged information will hold you back from this proof that has never been seen before. If this proof was known before 2026, we would have had entirely different conversations about this man.
THE TIMELINE:
- In the first half of the 1800's, the Doctrine and Covenants was written and completed. Again, they are revelations from Jesus where Jesus speaks in the first person.
- Joseph Smith dies in 1844.
- Translation of Pistis Sophia begins in 1848 and is completed in 1851.
- In the 175 years since these two books have been both available, people have noticed a handful of similarities between these two books, but no one has found the massive treasure trove that I found.
This timeline means Joseph Smith had no way to access Pistis Sophia or any other Gnostic book. Yet these two books back each other up to a staggering degree and contradict each other on nothing. Nothing.
Two books where Jesus is primarily speaking in the first person and giving the same gospel. Why? Because it is the gospel and Jesus is real.
Lastly Pistis Sophia is a Gnostic book. It is the first Gnostic book that was ever found. It is also the longest translated and most complex. No Gnostic books were available before 1851. The majority of Gnostic books were discovered in the Nag Hammadi in 1945. Nearly 100 years after the timeline I gave above.
Here are the 28 mini parallels. The full parallels are in my archive paper.
1. Jesus identifies himself as the 'Spirit of truth'/Gnosis of the universe
Pistis Sophia: Jesus doesn't just say he knows the truth. He says "I am the gnosis of the universe." The complete gnosis is reached through the highest mystery.
D&C: Jesus says, "I am the Spirit of truth." A person who keeps his commandments receives truth and light progressively until he "knoweth all things."
In both books Jesus doesn't just carry the truth, he identifies himself with it.
2. There is no empty space in the universe
D&C: "There are many kingdoms; for there is no space in the which there is no kingdom." Every kingdom has bounds, conditions, laws, inhabitants, and appointed times.
Pistis Sophia: Then shows that universe in action. Aeons, spheres, the Fate, the Midst, the Right, the Treasury of the Light, the region of the Inheritance, the Light-kingdom, rulers, inhabitants and scheduled movements.
D&C gives the rule: There is no space without a kingdom.
Pistis Sophia maps the universe and gives the same rules.
3. Every kingdom has something you must abide
In both books, every kingdom/region has a law/mystery. Inhabitants have to abide by that law/mystery.
Law = Mystery in function and description.
D&C: Every kingdom has a law. If you cannot abide the law of a celestial, terrestrial, or telestial kingdom, you cannot abide that glory and you cannot abide that kingdom. If you can't abide a kingdom of glory, then you must abide a kingdom not of glory.
Pistis Sophia: Every region has its mystery. You ultimately go "to the region up to which" you received mysteries, but receiving a mystery of the light isn't enough. Jesus repeatedly says you have to abide in it.
And both say the law/mystery changes you. D&C says law preserves, perfects, and sanctifies. Pistis Sophia says the mysteries purify people into refined light.
Abide the law -> abide the glory and abide the kingdom of the law.
Abide the mystery -> inherit the region of that mystery.
4. Out of many kingdoms, the Inheritance is divided into THREE kingdoms
Pistis Sophia: The universe has many regions, but when Jesus gets specifically to the Inheritance of the saved, he divides it into three allotments of the Light-kingdom
Three kingdoms/regions inside of the Light-kingdom.
And every allotment has further higher and lower divisions inside it.
D&C: Same setup. There are many kingdoms throughout space, but the inheritance of glory is divided into three kingdoms of glory: celestial, terrestrial and telestial. And the celestial kingdom is described to have further degrees inside of it. The other two kingdoms aren't confirmed or denied to have further degrees.
Three kingdoms of glory inside of "the kingdom" of God.
Both have a massive many-kingdom universe.
Both then describe the inheritance of the saved as 3 allotments/kingdoms of "the kingdom".
5. The final inheritance comes after resurrection / the expansion of the universe
Pistis Sophia: Saved souls are gathered into the Treasury of the Light while the present cosmic order still exists. At the expansion of the universe, they finally go into the region of the Inheritance.
D&C: says the inheritance is similarly tied to the resurrection. Bodies are resurrected and "quickened" by celestial, terrestrial or telestial glory and then receive the fulness of that glory. Entering into these three kingdoms is described as happening during the resurrection, not before.
Both distinguish the soul's condition after death from the final inherited condition after the expansion of the universe.
6. The three major mysteries line up with the three kingdoms
Pistis Sophia's three allotments correspond to three great mystery-spaces. Highest: the Ineffable.
Pistis Sophia calls God the Ineffable, and those receiving this mystery inhabit the highest allotment.
D&C's highest kingdom is where people receive the fulness of the Father and dwell in the presence of God and Christ.
Second: the First Mystery.
The First Mystery is identified with Jesus in Pistis Sophia.
D&C describes the middle kingdom as receiving "the presence of the Son, but not of the fulness of the Father."
Lowest: the first space from without.
Pistis Sophia's third allotment is literally associated with the space "from without."
D&C says those of the lowest kingdom are still heirs of salvation, but "where God and Christ dwell they cannot come."
Both books have Father at the highest, Son in the second, and distance from both at the lowest.
7. You inherit exactly what you received
Pistis Sophia: Jesus gives the law almost like an equation: "He who receiveth a lesser mystery, will inherit the lesser mystery, and he who receiveth a higher mystery, will inherit the higher regions."
D&C: Inheritance likewise depends on what a person received and abided. It even says whatever intelligence you gain here rises with you in the resurrection, and whoever gains more intelligence has "so much the advantage in the world to come." The kingdom you inherit depends on the law you were abiding.
What you actually receive and abide here becomes your level there.
8. A prophet's reward is a lower heavenly inheritance
In the bible Jesus said someone who receives a prophet receives a prophet's reward. This verse is usually interpreted to mean something positive, but both books say it meant you received something other than the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Pistis Sophia: Jesus quotes that saying and then explains that it means people go only as high as the mysteries they received. A person receiving the lesser mysteries receives the lesser inheritance.
D&C: The lowest kingdom includes people who are "of Paul," "of Apollos," "of Cephas," "some of Christ," "some of Moses," "Some of Enoch" and "some of one and some of another", because they followed these figures or in part but did not receive the gospel and testimony of Jesus.
Both books show a prophet's reward could mean receiving a lower inheritance. Receiving the higher inheritances requires receiving Jesus and his gospel.
9. You can go DOWN to lower regions, but you can't go UP to higher ones
Pistis Sophia: Every person remains in the region they inherited. They have authority over orders beneath them but "will not have the power to go to the orders which are above."
D&C: A person cannot abide a glory whose law they cannot abide. The telestial inhabitants cannot go to where God and Christ dwell.
But downward movement happens. D&C says higher kingdoms minister downward to lower kingdoms. Pistis Sophia shows higher beings routinely descending into the lower regions to perform their work.
10. Heaven is measured in degrees of LIGHT
D&C: The celestial kingdom's glory is compared to the sun, terrestrial to the moon, and telestial to the stars. One star even differs from another star in glory in the telestial.
Pistis Sophia: Jesus takes his disciples through the regions and repeatedly describes what the lower region looks like from the higher one. Again and again, each lower level is described as darkness of darknesses and a speck of dust because of the great distance compared with the glory above it. And each higher level looks like darkness of darknesses and a speck of dust to the region directly above it too. Only the higher levels look like stars, moon, and sun instead of darkness to the region directly above it respectively.
In both books heaven doesn't just have levels, higher regions/kingdoms are graded by immense differences in light/glory.
11. Heaven is waiting for the number of perfect souls to be completed
Pistis Sophia: The rulers are trying to delay the completion of the number of perfect souls. Eventually that number is completed and the gates close.
People arrive too late and knock.
Jesus answers, "I know you not." Then sends them to outer darkness.
D&C: Jesus says the parable of the ten virgins will eventually be literally fulfilled, and multiple times gives the same final rejection: "Depart from me."
Pistis Sophia shows the parable's shut door is a future event. When the number of perfect souls is complete, the door is shut and others will be turned away to outer darkness. When they knock Jesus will say "I know you not, who ye are, ye who are doers of iniquity and of evil even unto now. Wherefor go into the outer darkness."
12. Jesus says there is a future day when ALL THINGS gets revealed
Pistis Sophia: Jesus repeatedly postpones the deepest explanations until the "expansion of the universe." He says he will reveal the mysteries, orders, and causes behind the universe at that time. (Very long detailed list in text of things to be revealed)
D&C: Jesus in the same way promises a future disclosure when nothing will be withheld: gods, thrones, dominions, principalities, powers, the bounds of the heavens, revolutions of heavenly bodies, laws, glories, and set times.
Both books say all will be revealed in the future and both even give detailed lists of what will be revealed at that future time.
13. The heavens are guarded by "angels and gods"
D&C: There are "angels and gods" appointed at heavenly boundaries whom unauthorized beings cannot pass. It also explains Revelation's secret new name: the new name is a "key word."
Pistis Sophia: Souls repeatedly encounter heavenly receivers and gates. Depending on what mystery they received, they may have to give answers, apologies, tokens, seals or names.
Then Pistis Sophia describes a name that no ruler, angel, archangel, darkness or power can stop.
The D&C tells you there are guards and calls the secret name a key word. Pistis Sophia tells of the guarded gates and shares which mysteries allow you to pass through all of them giving no tokens, nor apologies, nor answers. And says a name can get you past these guarded regions as well.
14. MELCHIZEDEK
D&C: The greater priesthood is called the Melchizedek Priesthood. One of its powers named is sealing people unto eternal life.
Pistis Sophia: Melchizedek is a cosmic being called the great Receiver of the Light. At the upper threshold, Melchizedek and his receivers seal the soul and lead it into the Treasury of the Light. Melchizedek is the highest being to seal souls unto the treasury of the Light where souls wait until the expansion of the universe to go unto the region of Inheritance.
The D&C gives you the priesthood and its sealing office on earth. Pistis Sophia shows you Melchizedek himself performing the office in heaven.
In both theologies souls await the resurrection/expansion of the universe in an area of rest.
The Melchizedek Priesthood seals you unto eternal life on earth, and the cosmic entity Melchizedek is the highest being to seal you unto the Treasury of the Light, where souls await the Inheritance.
15. What is done for souls on Earth is carried out for those souls in heaven
Pistis Sophia: Jesus says the 'mystery of the Ineffable' (the highest mystery) is what the living can perform for a specific dead person in punishment.
After it is performed the receivers of Melchizedek takes the soul out of the chaos.
D&C: The Melchizedek priesthood, the greater priesthood, is also required to save souls during the churches baptisms for the dead. Baptisms for the dead are witnessed and recorded on Earth, showing what and who they seal on earth is sealed in heaven.
Melchizedek priesthood on earth, Melchizedek in heaven.
16. Jesus says HE was speaking through the Old Testament prophets
D&C: Jesus refers to Old Testament prophecy as "that which I spake by the mouths of my prophets."
Pistis Sophia: Over and over the disciples interpret Psalms and say Jesus' light-power prophesied through David and other prophets.
So not only did the prophets prophesy of Jesus, but they prophesied through Jesus.
17. LIGHT behaves like an actual substance
D&C: All truth is light. All light is Spirit. Spirit contains more fine or pure matter. The "light of truth" was not created. "The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed."
Gaining more light is moving closer to God. Logically, the inverse is losing light and moving away from God.
Light goes forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space.
Pistis Sophia: Light is a precious resource in the higher regions.
It is stolen, poured, deposited, devoured, purified, transferred, stored, and collected into the Treasury of the Light. It is treated like a commodity in the heavens. Light allows the archons to keep their kingdoms. Some archons work to delay the destruction of the kingdoms by attempting to prevent the completion of perfect souls. Purified light is taken from the archons and other places to the Treasury of the Light.
D&C gives the equation. All truth is light. Gaining light is moving towards God. And logically, losing light is moving away from God.
Pistis Sophia shows the equation operating as physics of the universe: lose your light and lose the mystery you obtained, gain light and you can possibly obtain mysteries, gain light and you can possibly move to higher regions in the heavens.
These books don't just talk about light being good or use metaphorical language, they talk directly about the physics of light and how it operates.
18. Jesus puts a portion of HIS OWN POWER into every person born
Pistis Sophia: When Jesus explains how human souls are assembled, he says "a portion out of my power" goes inside the soul so that it will seek the works of the Light of the Height always.
Elsewhere it says this inner power Jesus gave stirs the soul to seek God.
D&C: Jesus says the Spirit (Spirit of Jesus Christ) gives light to every man that cometh into the world; "and the Spirit enlighteneth every man through the world, that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit. And every one that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit cometh unto God, even the Father."
In both books something from Christ is placed inside human beings to pull them toward God.
19. All this light ultimately comes from God, and you can gain MORE of it
D&C: Light "proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space." If a person receives light and continues in God, they receive more light, and become brighter and brighter. The more light someone has the closer they are to God.
Pistis Sophia: The entire cosmos is ranked by light. Higher regions contain vastly greater glory than lower regions. Beings can have their light increased, purified and restored, allowing them to rise up through the regions.
The further up one is in the regions, the brighter their light is. A soul's salvation is also an increase in light.
20. Sin removes light
D&C: "That wicked one cometh and taketh away light and truth, through disobedience."
Pistis Sophia: Sophia goes against the order of the heavens (sin) and is attacked and has her light stripped from her. Her power collapses, her light is devoured, and she becomes unable to return to her former region.
Then repentance and restoration reverse the process.
21. Massive amounts of light can be given through "quickening"
Both books use the same word.
Pistis Sophia: Sophia is dying after her light is taken. Then her light is poured back into her and "the lights... quickened the body of her matter."
Her light-powers are returned and she is able to ascend through the regions.
D&C: At resurrection, bodies are quickened by portions of celestial, terrestrial or telestial glory, and then receive the fulness of that same glory.
Both call the return/giving of light quickening.
22. A body filled with light comprehends ALL THINGS
D&C: "Your whole bodies shall be filled with light... and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things."
Pistis Sophia: The soul receiving the highest mystery becomes an enormous light-stream and receives the gnosis explaining the causes behind the universe.
Light -> knowledge.
More light -> more knowledge.
Fulness of light -> comprehension of all things.
23. There is ONE class that cannot be redeemed
Almost everybody gets another way to be redeemed except for this class of people: the sons of perdition. Apostates.
D&C: The sons of perdition are those who knew Jesus' power, became partakers of it, received the Holy Spirit, and then denied it. They are called "the only ones who shall not be redeemed." They will go to outer darkness and not be redeemed. And their end is not revealed nor will it be revealed.
Pistis Sophia: The same class appears as the only ones not redeemed. A person receives the First Mystery (Jesus), then abandons and denies it. Jesus says this class eventually goes into the outer darkness and becomes non-existent eternally.
The "sons of perdition" are the only group written as permanently damned in both books at the expansion of the universe. Those that tasted of Jesus' power and then denied him.
It is "Impossible" for them to be saved through repentance. They go to outer darkness.
All other groups have a path to salvation. Some paths are harder and do include time in hell before being redeemed, but not forever.
The only group that is in outer darkness and won't be redeemed are people who partook of Jesus' power and then denied it.
24. Hell is not forever
The one makes the previous parallel even more interesting.
D&C: Jesus explicitly explains that "endless punishment" does not mean the punishment literally has no end. "Endless" is God's name, therefore punishment from God is called Endless Punishment.
Pistis Sophia: Punishments have schedules. Months of chastisements in one area, followed by more months of chastisements in another area, etc. Then the soul can be sent onward into another condition/body.
In both books punishment and hell is still serious, but it ends for everyone except the apostates, the sons of perdition.
25. The highest priesthood and highest mystery both unlock the KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
D&C: The Melchizedek Priesthood holds: "the key of the mysteries of the kingdom, even the key of the knowledge of God."
This greater priesthood receives the key of the knowledge of God.
Pistis Sophia: The highest mystery is the mystery of the Ineffable. Receiving it allows for complete gnosis of the universe and brings the receiver into the highest inheritance.
The name 'mystery of the Ineffable' signifies "knowledge of God"
Highest priesthood: keys of the mysteries -> key of the knowledge of God.
Highest mystery: mystery of God/the Ineffable -> complete gnosis.
These receivers in both books go into the highest allotment (celestial) of the Light-kingdom.
26. In both books, Jesus tells them to keep miracles and signs received secret
This is another very specific rule shared by both.
Pistis Sophia: Jesus tells the disciples to keep the mystery of the "raising of the dead and of the healing of the sick" secret. He says to "give unto no one nor give instruction in it...until ye establish the faith in the whole world.."
D&C: Jesus lists healing the sick, opening eyes of the blind, and other signs, then immediately commands: "they shall not boast themselves of these things, neither speak them before the world." He says people are to believe on their words or be damned.
27. Jesus tells you HOW to test other spiritual books and teachers
This one is relevant to the entire topic at hand.
Pistis Sophia: Jesus warns that people will encounter teachings claiming divine knowledge. His test is to compare them against the whole gnosis he has given, and that the doctrine needs to harmonize and fit with all the words Jesus has spoken unto the disciples, including the heavens, circuits, stars, light-givers, the whole earth and all on it, and of all waters and all in them. If it doesn't, throw it away.
D&C: Gives a similar instruction concerning outside writings. It says the Apocrypha contains some truth and some false material, and the Spirit manifests truth. So only those enlightened by the Spirit will obtain benefit, and those who receive not by the Spirit cannot be benefited.
D&C also explains that when something is preached by the Spirit of truth and received by the Spirit of truth, the speaker and receiver understand one another as it was given from the Spirit of truth.
And remember parallel #1:
In the D&C Jesus says:
"I am the Spirit of truth."
Pistis Sophia:
"I am the gnosis of the universe."
Test by the whole gnosis.
Test by the Spirit of Truth.
Both terms lead back to Jesus.
28. Both warn that false spiritual teachings WILL exist
Neither book teaches that everything spiritual is automatically from God.
Pistis Sophia: Jesus repeatedly warns about "doctrines of error." He even warns that people will come claiming to represent him when they do not. "Renounce the doctrines of error, that ye may be worthy of the mysteries of the Light..."
D&C: Jesus warns believers not to be deceived by evil spirits, "doctrines of devils," or commandments of men:
"some are of men, and others of devils."
Both books say outside spiritual information can be real or fake, and both say to test it with the things Jesus identifies himself as: the Spirit of truth / Gnosis of the universe.
These are 28 miniature parallels. All 50+ parallels can be found in the document's 36 entries with full explanations. The full doc is 70+ pages. I see many posts on reddit wondering what the religion of the elites are, posts seeking spiritual information, ancient information, and where they should go on their spiritual path. In my opinion both of these books satisfy many, many spiritual questions someone may have about the many different religions on earth, why they are, what we should do now, and where we are going. And if you found Pistis Sophia a complex read before, I think my archive paper will make it significantly easier to understand plainly, without needing to introduce Kabbalah or other interpretation means.
