Three doors, three works
The Gnostic Collection gathers Mary, Judas and Philip in one app, with reading, listening, search and saved passages. Its displayed reading units are eight for Mary, eight for Judas and fourteen for Philip. These are app reading arrangements, not a claim that all three works share a manuscript, an author or an identical theology.
Let the selected work ask its own question
Begin with Mary if you want to examine authority and a remembered teaching; follow the Mary study to see how the surviving work is introduced. Choose Philip for its distinctive collection of sayings and images, including the material discussed in Babylon’s love studies. For Judas, keep the named work and its narrative setting visible rather than treating a familiar name as a complete explanation.
Compare without flattening
A productive comparison records the passage from each work, a shared theme and a difference that remains. Do not make a theme of inner understanding erase a text’s own speaker or the uncertainty of a damaged witness. Babylon’s synthesis offers a further reflection, clearly named as its own. The reader can listen, compare and disagree while keeping a next step grounded in truth and care.
What does this work say in its own voice, and what changes when I compare it with a second work?