The Wisdom of Jesus Christ - Part 5

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Immortal Humanity and Sophia Appear (100,16-103,21)

 

(p.291) Matthew said to him, " Master, Savior, how was Humanity revealed? "

 

The perfect Savior said, " I want you to know that the being who appeared before

the universe in infinity is the one who grows by himself, the self-made Father.

He is full of bright light and ineffable [indescribable]. 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

poverty [23] of those who are robbers. [24]

 

" The companion of the immortal Human is great Sophia, who from the beginning was

destined to be united with him, by the self-conceived Father, through the

immortal Human who appeared as the first one and as divinity and kingdom. The

Father, called the Human, Father by himself [25], revealed this. He created an

exalted aeon [eternal realm], named the Eight [26], for his own majesty, and he

was given great authority. He rules over the impoverished creation, and he

created gods and angels and archangels, myriads without number, to serve him,

through that light, and the triple-male Spirit, which is of his companion

Sophia.

 

" Through this God came divinity and kingdom. For that reason this God was called

God of gods and King of kings. The first Human has a mind of his own within, and

thought, appropriate to him, and consideration, reflection, reason, and power.

 

" All these attributes are perfect and immortal. They are equally imperishable

but not equally powerful. They are different, like the difference between father

and son, <and son> and thought, and thought and the rest.

 

" As I said before, about what was produced, the One is first. After everything,

all that was revealed came from his power. From what was created came what was

fashioned. From what was fashioned came what was formed. From what was formed

came what was named. This is how differences came to be among what was

unconceived, from beginning to end. "

 

The Nag Hammadi Scriptures (The International Edition)

Edited by Marvin Meyer; Advisory Board: Wolf-Peter Funk, Paul-Hubert Poirier,

James M. Robinson; Introduction by Elaine H. Pagels

The Wisdom of Jesus Christ, p.291

HarperCollins Publishers - New York

ISBN:978-0-06-052378-7

ISBN-10: 0-06-052378-6

 

Notes:

 

[23] On the present world as poverty, cf. 'Gospel of Thomas' 3:5.

 

[24] On the interpreter, cf. 'Eugnostos the Blessed' 90.

 

[25] Or " self-fathering Father " ('autopator').

 

[26] Or " the Ogdoad. " The eighth realm, or Ogdoad, is often understood to be the

sphere of the fixed stars, and even the abode of the creator of this world.