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“So I tell you, be filled and leave no space within you empty, or he who is coming will mock you.”
Be filled with spirit but lack in reason, for reason is of the soul. It is
These forms were visible through each other, and the figure had three forms.
I asked if I might understand this, and it said to me, The One7 is a sovereign that has nothing over it.
The Tao
The One is not corporeal and it is not incorporeal. The One is not large and it is not small. It is impossible to say, How much is it? What [kind is it]?10 For no one can understand it.
His thought became a reality,
She is the first power who preceded everything and came forth from his mind as the Forethought
Barbēlō (Greek: Βαρβηλώ)[1] refers to the first emanation of God in several forms of Gnostic cosmogony. Barbēlō is often depicted as a supreme female principle, the single passive antecedent of creation in its manifoldness. This figure is also variously referred to as 'Mother-Father' (hinting at her apparent androgyny), 'First Human Being', 'The Triple Androgynous Name', or 'Eternal Aeon'. So prominent was her place amongst some Gnostics that some schools were designated as Barbeliotae, Barbēlō worshippers or Barbēlōgnostics
Some of them say that the world governs itself, [93] others say that divine forethought governs it, still others that fate is in charge. All these opinions are wrong.
The One Who Is has an appearance of its own, [95]12 not like anything you have seen and received, but an alien appearance that surpasses everything and is superior to the universe. It looks everywhere and beholds itself in itself.
unknown, yet it knows itself.
He is all mind; he is thought, consideration, reflection, reason, and power, and all are equally powerful.14 These are the sources of all that is, and the entire generation, from first to last, was in the foreknowledge of the infinite unconceived Father.”
The perfect Savior said, “Bring yourselves from what is invisible to the end of those who are visible, and the emanation of thought itself will reveal to you how faith in what is invisible can be found in those who are visible, who belong to the unconceived Father. Whoever has ears to hear should hear.
When the Forefather saw himself within himself in a mirror, his resemblance appeared there, but his image appeared as the divine Father by himself and the reflection above reflections and the first-existing unconceived Father.21 He is as old as the light before him but not as powerful.
Afterward there was revealed a multitude of beings, just as old and powerful, who are self-conceived and reflective. Glorious and without number, their generation is designated the generation over whom there is no kingdom. You yourselves have appeared from the people of this generation. And the whole multitude of beings with no kingdom over them is designated [100] the children of the unconceived Father, God, Savior, Son of God, whose likeness is among you.
In the beginning, when he decided to turn his likeness into a great power, at once the strength of that light appeared as an immortal androgynous Human, so that through that immortal Human, people might come to salvation and wake up from forgetfulness, through the interpreter who was sent, who is with you until the end of the time of poverty23 of those who are robbers.24
9. The disciples profess that Jesus is the son of their own god, who is the creator of this world, but they are mistaken.
