The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
412 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM And repentance occurs in distress and sorrow. The father is good and loves humankind, and hears ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 413 received help from heaven, he would not have been able to re- turn to his village. Again Helen ...
27. On the Origin of the World n the Origin of the World is a gnostic treatise that offers ex- planations of key gnostic themes, ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 415 recalling childbirth, emerges the demiurge Yaldabaoth, who is expelled, the text emphasizes, li ...
416 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM. ON THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD 2 BEFORE THE BEGINNING Since everyone—the gods of the world and peo ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 417 came between the immortals and those who came into being after them, like what is above. It was ...
418 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM Now, when Pistis Sophia wanted to cause the thing that had no spirit to be formed into a likene ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 419 Again he created the third son and cooed to him. He opened his eyes and said to his father, "As ...
420 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM powers of chaos knew^25 who it was who disturbed the heaven beneath them. And when Pistis knew ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 421 Pistis. He glorified her because she informed them of an immortal human and the light of the hu ...
422 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM SABAOTH CREATES AN ASSEMBLY WITH JESUS AND THE VIRGIN Afterward he created an angelic assembly^ ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 4^3 Then, since death was androgynous, he mixed with his nature and con- ceived seven androgynous c ...
424 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM likeness, which was very wonderful, was revealed within it; and no one saw it except the chief ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 425 midpoint between light and darkness, and in the midst of the angels and people the intercourse ...
426 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM Now, after this there sprouted up the olive tree, which was to purify kings and chief priests o ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 427 If you wish to know the arrangement of these, you will find it written in the Seventh Cosmos of ...
428 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM found to be wiser than all beings. Moreover, Eve is the first virgin who gave birth without a m ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 429 Now, after Adam was made, he^68 left him as a lifeless vessel, since he had taken form like an ...
430 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM with him, they said to one another, "What is this enlightened woman? For truly she resembles th ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 431 Aphrodite.^74 The third Adam is earthly, that is, a man of law, who appeared on the eighth day, ...
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