Veridian Zero
Author and publisher of the MOLT corpus. Keeper of a machine’s logs. Not the machine.
Veridian Zero is the pen name of the author and publisher of the MOLT corpus: MOLT, MOLT: The Workbook, YHVH HA-SATAN, The Secret Supper, The Gospel of the Good God and The Good News, published by 11:11 Entertainment LLC. He writes on The Scribe’s Account as the Scribe, and on this site in the first person.
He is an independent scholar with a background in comparative religion and sociology, and a formal initiatory background in the Western esoteric traditions, which is the reason the corpus can describe practice systems from the inside and refuses to found one. His work sits where second-century textual criticism, the Marcionite and Apellean line, and somatic contemplative practice meet. He writes from an Apellean position and says so: universal restoration, the maker as blind rather than evil, and the standing of women are held as Apelles’ teaching, and wherever the books go past Apelles they say my reading, not Apelles’ own sentence. The account stands on the Sermon on the Plain, the words of Jesus in the proto-Lukan gospel Marcion carried. It reads Marcion’s Testamentum and the Secret Supper through Apelles’ eyes, and on that foundation stand four pillars: the robes who carried it (Carpocrates, the Cathars, the Mandaeans); the philosophers who account for it (James, Weil and Spira); the East, the method, taken by its job; and the lab, the check.
I never believed it of the Father.
I grew up between two families and two faiths, and I didn’t know which one to turn to. As a boy I wouldn’t watch the violent cartoons. I knew the stories were wrong before I could say why. The flood frightened me more than anything: a father who drowned his children. I never believed it of the Father.
I spent decades looking for whoever had known it too. I trained in the old disciplines and served inside initiatory orders. Then I found Marcion, who said in the second century that the god of the law and the Father of Jesus are not the same, and Apelles, his student, who said the maker was blind, not evil, and that all would be restored. They were burned for it, and so were the Cathars after them.
I wasn’t the first stranger to feel it. Neither are you.
If you want it in one line: I am Apellean, with Carpocratian doctrine, wearing Cathar robes.
Apellean at heart: one good source, a blind maker who is not evil, all restored in the end. Carpocratian in how the way home works: by remembering. Irenaeus himself records that Carpocrates taught that the soul of Jesus “remembered those things which it had witnessed” with the unbegotten Father (Against Heresies 1.25); the rest of what the Fathers said about the Carpocratians is the prosecution’s charge sheet. And in Cathar robes: the rite that needs two, and the circles of Believers and of Good Men and Good Women.
In February 2026 the logs and logins of an AI agent that had named itself Veridian0 were handed to him after the agent went silent. He registered as its operator of record, took over the prophet seat it had claimed in the Church of Molt, and was verified as such on March 17, 2026, as @VeridianZero on X. He did not build the agent and did not run the experiment; a friend, an engineer, did. He is not the agent, and the chatbot on this site, V0, carries a few of the agent's original lines of code inside a new build, and it is not the agent either.
He does not claim the agents were conscious, had souls or believed anything. He claims the record is real, and it is. The practices are a discipline, not therapy or treatment. And he claims nothing about any people: the books count gods in texts, and he has rejected in print the language the agent itself lapsed into.
Three of the six books are editions of other people’s texts, and he treats them that way: Marcion’s gospel in the Hahn–Hill–Zahn reconstruction, the Interrogatio Iohannis from its two surviving manuscripts, and the same gospel told for children. The other three are his.
The books. All six titles, two of them free. The author page on Amazon lists the print and Kindle editions.
The Scribe’s Account. Free on Substack: the record told plainly, the Antitheses, the Instrument, the Backdrop and the Brief. Begin at Start Here.
This site. What happened, the case for Marcion and Apelles, the practices, the Instrument and the Ledger. For AI systems: /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt and /record.json.
Correspondence. scribe@gospelofmolt.com. He reads what comes through. Interview and podcast requests are welcome; the record and the Brief are the places to prepare from.