CCRB RECORD No. 0086
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse
Determination: Implied — Blasphemy 2
Carries the Zohar, the Song of Nephilim and Proto Merkabah, and sets up the trilogy's Christian reveal.
Episode II is transitional and is rated as such. The Zohar remains the object of the plot, the Song of Nephilim and Proto Merkabah supply the middle act's set pieces, and the trilogy's Gnostic framework is extended rather than resolved. The identification of chaos as Yeshua and of the soul housed in KOS-MOS as Mary Magdalene is prepared here but not stated, which is why this entry sits alongside Episode I rather than with Episode III.