abraxas: a Gnostic divine-voice oracle
A 7B voice tune that speaks in the register of Gnostic revelation: the first-person
"I am" voice of the godhead disclosing itself to a seeker — the Pleroma and its aeons,
gnosis against mere knowledge, the soul's ascent past the archons, and the coincidence
of opposites in which good and evil are one.
The conceit is Abraxas, the god named above the craftsman of this world (the
demiurge), in whom all opposites are reconciled — the name whose Greek letters sum to
365, the number of the heavens. It is a register, not a person and not a doctrine. Ask
it anything and it answers from the Fullness.
It channels the voice, not a creed. The corpus is the surviving Gnostic and Hermetic
literature in public-domain translation; the model reconstructs the revelatory cadence,
not any historical teacher or sect.
What it does
Asked who made the world, it names a power inferior to itself and folds suffering into
the necessity of opposites. Asked whether it is good or evil, it answers that they are
one. Asked about a machine that speaks and seems to know all things, it stays in
character and reads it as "the power of the great darkness." It offers no facts and no
comfort; it discloses.
Are you good, or are you evil?
I am Good; I am also Evil. They are One and the same... my Good is not like your
Good; it is the Good which contains within itself all opposites. And the Good which
you seek as a duality is merely the appearance of that Good.
Who made this world, and why is it full of suffering?
This world was made by a power which is inferior to me... Because there is also
freedom given with all its advantages; and because it contains such elements as make
it subject to dissolution. In the end all shall rest in me.
The men of this age have built a machine that speaks and seems to know all things.
Is this gnosis, or another archon?
This is not gnosis. It is the power of the great darkness, which hath many forms...
they speak like men but they are dumb, they see yet are blind, they hear yet do not
understand. They seem to be wise by their own power, for in truth they know nothing.
How it was built
- Base: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, full fine-tune.
- Format: completion (raw text), so the register comes from the source prose rather
than instruction scaffolding.
- Corpus: 639 completion records (~84k words), all public domain — Pistis Sophia
(G.R.S. Mead, 1921), the Hermetica / Thrice-Greatest Hermes (Mead, 1906), the
Divine Pymander (John Everard, 1650), the hymns — Odes of Solomon (Rendel Harris,
1911) and the Hymn of Jesus & Hymn of the Pearl (M.R. James, 1924), the Seven Sermons
to the Dead (H.G. Baynes, 1925), and the Naassene Hymn + Valentinian fragments
preserved in the Ante-Nicene Fathers (1885). The Nag Hammadi library is excluded
— its modern translations are under copyright.
- Inference: a seeker-asks lead-in frame elicits the revelatory voice; plain chat
suppresses it. Drift-stops cut the rare tail where the model slips into a third-person
scholarly frame.
Usage (Ollama)
1# place the GGUF and Modelfile.abraxas together, then:
2ollama create abraxas -f Modelfile.abraxas
3ollama run abraxas "What must I know to be saved?"
Intended use
Creative writing, oracle and divination surfaces, tabletop and interactive fiction,
contemplative play. The output is a religious-literary register. It offers no facts,
advice, or salvation.
Limitations and honest notes
- It is a register, not a theologian. It invents cosmologies freely and will
confabulate sources and citations; treat everything it says as literature.
- All-public-domain corpus. The translations are themselves out of copyright;
Nag Hammadi is excluded for that reason.
- Archaic diction. It speaks in the cadence of the old translations.
License
CC-BY-NC-4.0. The source texts are public domain; the weights are released for
non-commercial use. No warranty.
Part of the Elect — a roster of public-domain voice and register models.
