The Wisdom of Jesus Christ - Part 9

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The Names of the Eternal Realms All Come from Above (111,11-112,19)

 

(p.294) " All the names came from the original source. That is the one who united

with thought, and at once powers appeared, called gods. From their wisdom the

gods of gods revealed gods, and from their wisdom <the gods> revealed lords, and

from their thoughts the lords of lords revealed lords, and from their power the

lords revealed archangels, and from their words the archangels revealed angels,

and from them came ideas, with structure and form and names for all the aeons

(*) and their worlds.

 

" The immortals whom I have described, all of them, have authority from the

immortal Human, who is called silence, because by reflecting without speaking

the entire majesty of silence [36] was perfected. For the imperishable beings

had authority, and each created a great kingdom in the eighth realm, and thrones

and temples and firmaments for their own majesties. All these came to be by the

will of the Mother of all. "

 

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.294

HarperCollins Publishers - New York

ISBN:978-0-06-052378-7

ISBN-10: 0-06-052378-6

 

Notes:

 

(*) Usually terms in the texts, even technical terms (e.g., aeon, arkhon,

gnosis, hupostasis, and pleroma, are translated (as " eternal realm, " " ruler, "

" knowledge, " " reality, " and " fullness, " respectively), but sometimes they are

retained in transliterated form (aeon, archon, gnosis, hypostasis, and pleroma)

in the translations in order to preserve the particular style of the texts.

(Intro. p.11)

 

[36] Here the Codex III version reads " her " (Sophia or silence) and the BG 8502

version " him " (the Human). In the 'Wisdom of Jesus Christ' silence is an epithet

of the immortal Human; in 'Eugnostos the Blessed' silence is an epithet of the

companion of the immortal Human, Sophia, who has disappeared from this section

in the 'Wisdom of Jesus Christ'. Hence the problem--which the BG 8502 version

resolves with masculine pronouns.