The First Apocalypse of James, Nag Hammadi Codex V, stages the risen Jesus preparing James for martyrdom and for what follows it: a multitude will arm themselves against you, and in particular three of them will seize you, they who sit there as toll collectors; not only do they demand toll, but they also take away souls by theft. The instruction is verbatim: when the guard asks who are you or where are you from, answer I am a son, and I am from the Father; pressed further, I am from the Pre-existent Father, and a son in the Pre-existent One; asked where will you go, answer to the place from which I have come, there shall I return, and if you say these things, you will escape their attacks. The genealogy the soul cites is Achamoth, the lower Sophia, female from a female, and the redeeming knowledge is Sophia who is in the Father.
The folk force of the text is its format: not a sermon but a field script, questions and answers for a border crossing that every soul will face, the earliest surviving Christian document that treats death as a checkpoint with interrogators, and the correct responses as the whole content of salvation. The archive's Archon entry files the same border from the staffing side; this text files it from the traveler's. The documentary tradition that rediscovered it reads it as the soul-trap theory's ancient proof: the recycling station is named, its collectors are named, and the bypass is quoted, twenty centuries before the forums.
The claim: the James script is the archive's deepest note on what a password is: the toll collectors are not bribed, fought, or tricked, they are answered, and the answers are not secrets, I am from the Pre-existent Father is public text, so the mechanism is recognition, the soul that can say what it is cannot be detained, the collectors' whole jurisdiction being over souls that have forgotten. Verdict: the text supports the reading and the archive extends it one step: every toll system, ancient or modern, runs on the same asymmetry, the collector has the ledger and the traveler has the origin, and the ledger wins only when the origin is forgotten. The documentary's conclusion is the text's conclusion: remember whose you are. The collectors, per James, take souls by theft, which means the property was never theirs. The password is the title deed. Memorize it before the border, says the text. The border, per every shelf in this archive, does not announce itself.
If the redemption comes as a script for a customs interview, who wrote the questions, and why does the correct answer work?