Androgyny in the Garden of Eden – by Olchar Lindsann

In a departure from Revenant Editions’ usual focus on the 19th and early 20th Centuries, this scholarly essay shifts to the fringes of the late Roman Empire and sets its sights on the Gnostic heretical network of the Second to Fourth Centuries C.E., honing in on the strain of thought known as Sethianism. This community thrived on heterodoxy rather than orthodoxy, and found its liberating knowledge (Gnosis) in the intersections and lacunae of a dialectical discussion, using texts that had been anonymously collaged, copied, and re-copied between languages and mythologies, in a way that would make any Neoist or mail artist of today proud.