The Gnostic Christian Scriptures Combined

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I am on a new mission with this thread. What I am going to do is to attempt to combine all of the Gnostic Christian scriptures in the World to date and to put them all into sort of like a Book which gives the alternative version of Christianity a clearer picture. And many people don't realize that the Gnostic version of Christianity is an entirely different one from the fundamental Christianity that we have come to know from the Bible and the Old Testament. So my goal is to do the best I can to start at the beginning of the Gnostic Christian version of Creation and come to an end point eventually so that the full picture can be seen in it's entirety. I am only going to use Gnostic Christian scriptures for this project and nothing else because I am one who believes that all Gnostic Christian scriptures can be tied into each other just as the scriptures from the Bible can be.

This is going to be as much of a learning process for me as it is anyone else. But by the end of it I hope to know more about it and therefore be more in tune with my own beliefs. It will be a fun exercise for me either way.

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Ok so where we begin here is with The Apocryphon of John. This is an interesting document because it is similar to Genesis in the Bible where it gives the story of the Creation of all Life and everything in existence. This appears to be the primary text for the beginning of the Gnostic Christian belief system, and so it will be the first thing I will cover in this thread. Once we gain a basic understanding of this document first, than we can branch out to the other ones which describe events that came later in the future. But this appears to be the "Genesis" of the Gnostic Christian documents so I have to start here before I go anywhere else.

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The beginning of Creation according to the Secret Book of John:



The Revelation of the Mysteries Hidden in Silence



The Origin of Reality



"[We would know nothing of the ineffable

And nothing of the immeasurable

Without the help of the one who comes forth

from the One who is the Father.

He alone has informed us.]

The Father is surrounded by light.

He apprehends himself in that light

[which is the pure spring of the water of life

that sustains all realms].

He is conscious of his image everywhere around him,

Perceiving his image in this spring of Spirit

Pouring forth from himself.

He is enamored of the image he sees in the light-water,

The spring of pure light-water enveloping him.

His self-aware thought (ennoia) came into being.

Appearing to him in the effulgence of his light.

She stood before him.

This, then, is the first of the powers, prior to everything.

Arising out of the mind of the Father

The Providence (pronoia) of everything.

Her light reflects His light.

She is from His image in His light

Perfect in power

Image of the invisible perfect Virgin Spirit.

She is the initial power

glory of Barbelo

glorious among the realms

glory of revelation

She gave glory to the Virgin Spirit

She praised Him

For she arose from Him.



She is the universal womb

She is before everything

She is:

Mother-Father

First Man

Holy Spirit

Thrice Male

Thrice Powerful

Thrice Named

Androgynous eternal realm

First to arise among the invisible realms.

She, Barbelo, asked the virgin Spirit for foreknowledge (prognosis).

The Spirit agreed.

Foreknowledge came forth and stood by Providence



Foreknowledge gave glory to the Spirit

And to Barbelo, the Spirit’s perfect power,

For She was the reason that it had come into being."

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Primary Structures of the Divine Mind

"She, Barbelo, asked the virgin Spirit for Incorruptibility

The Spirit agreed.

Incorruptibility came forth and stood by Thought and Foreknowledge.

Incorruptibility gave glory to the Invisible Virgin Spirit

And to Barbelo,

For She was the reason that it had come into being.

She asked for everlasting Life.

The Spirit agreed

Everlasting life came forth and they all stood together.

They gave glory to the invisible Spirit

And to Barbelo,

For She was the reason that it had come into being.

She asked for Truth.

The Spirit agreed

Truth came forth and they all stood together.

They gave glory to the invisible Spirit

And to Barbelo,

For She was the reason that it had come into being.

This is the fivefold realm of the Father:

The First Man who is

The Image of the Invisible Spirit who is

Providence who is

Barbelo who is

Thought.

And

Foreknowledge - Incorruptibility - Life Everlasting - Truth"

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Secondary Structures of the Divine Mind

"The Father looked into Barbelo

[into the pure light surrounding the Invisible Spirit]

Barbelo conceived and bore a spark of light

Who had blessedness similar to, but not equal to, her blessedness,

Who was the only child of that mother–father

The only offspring,

The only begotten child of the pure light, the Father.

The Invisible Virgin Spirit celebrated the light that had been produced

Coming forth from the first power who is

The Providence

Barbelo

The Spirit anointed him with Goodness, making him perfect

[he lacked no goodness whatsoever,

for he was anointed with the Invisible Spirit’s Goodness]

He stood in the Spirit’s presence and it was poured upon him.

Having received this anointing from the Spirit he immediately glorified Him

And he glorified the perfect Providence.

Because of Her he had come into being.

He asked for Mind (nous) to be a companion to him.

The Spirit consented

When the Invisible Spirit consented

Mind came into being.

It stood by the Anointed

and glorified the Spirit and Barbelo



He wished to act through the Word of the Invisible Spirit.

Whose Will became an action and appeared with Mind

Glorifying the Light.

And then Word followed Will into being.

[The Christ, the divine autogenes,

created everything through the Word.]

Everlasting Life and Will,

Mind, and Foreknowledge

Stood together.

They glorified the Invisible Spirit and Barbelo.

Because of Her they had come into being."

[Ahso!]

Boy, TB, you are one amusing Monkey.

[TruthBringer]

Ahso, at least wait until I finish with this project for the insults I mean my goodness I have only just begun here.

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Tertiary Structures of the Divine Mind

"The Holy Spirit

Brought his and Barbelo’s divine autogenes Son to completion

In order that he could stand before the great Invisible Virgin Spirit

As the divine autogenes Christ

And honor Him with a mighty voice.

.

The Invisible Spirit

Placed the divine autogenes over everything.

All authorities were subordinated to him.

The truth within him let him learn everything

[He is called by the highest name of all.

That name will be told only to those who are worthy to hear it

From the light, [which is the Christ,]

From the incorruptibility,

Through a gift of the spirit

The Four Lights arising from the divine autogenes stood before him.



Grace exists within the realm of the Light called Harmozel, the first angel.

Along with Harmozel are

Grace

Truth

Form

The second Light is called Oriel and it stands over the second realm.

With Oriel are:

Conceptualization (Epinoia)

Perception

Memory

The third Light is called Daveithai and it stands over the third realm.

With Daveithai are:

Understanding

Love

Idea

The fourth Light is called Eleleth and it stands over the fourth realm.

With Eleleth are:

Perfection

Peace

Wisdom (Sophia).

These are the four lights standing before the divine autogenes.

Twelve realms stand before the Son of the Powerful

The autogenes

The Christ

Through the intention

And the grace

Of the Invisible Spirit

Twelve realms belong to the Son of the autogenes.

[All of this came into being through the intention of the Holy Spirit

Through the autogenes.]

From the perfect mind’s foreknowledge

Through the intention of the Invisible Spirit

And the autogenes’s will.

The perfect human appeared,

Its first true manifestation

The Virgin Spirit named the human Adamas

And placed him over the first realm with the mighty autogenes Christ

With the first Light Harmozel and its powers.

The Invisible One gave Adamas invincible power of mind.

Adamas spoke, glorifying and praising the Invisible Spirit:

“Everything has come into being from you

Everything will return to you.

I will praise you and glorify you

And the Autogenes

And the triple realm:

Father – Mother – Son,

the perfect power.”

Over the second realm was appointed Adamas’s son Seth

With the second Light Oriel.

In the third realm were placed the children of Seth

With the third Light Daveithai.



In the fourth realm were placed the souls of those ignorant of the fullness

Those who did not repent at once

But who, after some time, eventually repented,

They are with the fourth Light Eleleth.

All of these created beings glorify the Invisible Spirit"

[Ahso!]

It wasn't an insult, I'm a Monkey too.

[TruthBringer]

A Crisis that Became the World

"It happened that the realm (aeon) Wisdom (Sophia)

Of conceptual thought (Epinoia),

Began to think for herself,

She used the thinking (enthymesis)

And the foreknowledge (prognosis)

Of the Invisible Spirit.

She intended to reveal an image from herself

To do so without the consent of the Spirit,

Who did not approve,

Without the thoughtful assistance of her masculine counterpart,

Who did not approve.

Without the Invisible Spirit’s consent

Without the knowledge of her partner

She brought it into being.

Because she had unconquerable Power

Her thought was not unproductive.

Something imperfect came out of her

Different in appearance from her.

Because she had created it without her masculine counterpart

She gave rise to a misshapen being unlike herself.

Sophia saw what her desire produced.

It changed into the form of a dragon with a lion’s head

And eyes flashing lightning bolts.

She cast him far from her,

Outside of the realm of the immortal beings

So that they could not see him.

[She had created him in ignorance.]

Sophia surrounded him with a brilliant cloud,

Put a throne in the center part of the cloud

So that no one would see it.

[Except for the Holy Spirit called the Mother of the Living]

She named him Yaldabaoth.

Yaldabaoth is the chief ruler.

He took great Power (dynamis) from his mother,

Left her, and moved away from his birthplace.

He assumed command,

Created realms for himself

With a brilliant flame that continues to exist even now."

[TruthBringer]

Ahso!;1347655 wrote: It wasn't an insult, I'm a Monkey too.


Yeah I have to admit, much of my belief system incorporates monkeys into the mix too but I am getting off track here so I would like to continue with the Gnostic Christian story of creation.

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The Fashioning of This World

"Yadabaoth united with the thoughtlessness (aponoia) within him.

He begot ruling authorities (exousia)

Modeling them on the incorruptible realms above.

The first is Athoth

The second is Harmas [called the eye of flame]

The third is Kalilaumbri

The fourth is Yabel

The fifth is Adonaiu [called Sabaoth]

The sixth is Cain [called the sun]

The seventh is Abel

The eighth is Abrisene

The ninth is Yobel

The tenth is Armupiel

The eleventh is Melcheir-adonein

The twelfth is Belias

Who rules over the very depth of Hades.

He made the first seven rulers to reign in the seven spheres of heaven.

He made the next five rulers to reign in the five depths of the abyss.

He shared a portion of his fire with them,

But shared none of the power of Light he had received from his mother.

[He is ignorant darkness.

When the Light mingled into the darkness

the darkness shone.

When darkness mixed with the Light,

the Light diminished,

No longer Light nor darkness but dim.]

This dim ruler has three names:

Yaldabaoth is the first.

Saklas is the second.

Samael is the third.

He is blasphemous through his thoughtlessness.

He said “I am God, and there is no God but me!

Since he didn’t know where his own Power originated.

His rulers created seven Authorities for themselves.

Each of these Authorities created six demons apiece,

There came to be 365 demons altogether.

Here are the seven Authorities’ names and physical forms:

First, Athoth with a sheep’s face

Second, Eloaios with a donkey’s face

Third, Astaphaios with a hyena’s face

Fourth, Yao with the face of a seven headed snake

Fifth, Sabaoth who has the face of a dragon

Sixth, Adonin whose face is that of a monkey

Seventh, Sabbataios with a face of flame and fire.

These are the seven of the week.

These Authorities rule the world.

Yaldabaoth has many faces.

More than all that have been listed

So he can convey any face he wants to the seraphim around him.

Yaldabaoth shared his fire with his seraphim

But gave them none of his pure Light

Although he ruled them by virtue of the power and glory

Of the Light had received from his Mother.



He united his thought’s sevenfold Powers with the Authorities who accompanied him.

He spoke and it happened.

He named those sevenfold Powers starting with the highest one:

Goodness paired with the first: Athoth

Providence paired with the second: Eloaios

Divinity paired with the third: Astaphaios

Lordship paired with the fourth: Yao

Kingdom paired with the fifth: Sabaoth

Zeal paired with the sixth: Adonin

Understanding paired with the seventh: Sabbataios

Each has its own realm modeled on one of the higher realms.

And each new name refers to a glory in the heavens

So that Yaldabaoth’s demons might be destroyed.

The demons’ own names, given by Yaldabaoth, are mighty names

But the Powers’ names reflecting the glory above

Will bring about the demons’ destruction and remove their Power.

That is why each has two names.

Yaldabaoth modeled his creation

On the pattern of the original realms above him

So that it might be just like the indestructible realms.

[Not that he had ever seen the indestructible ones.

Rather, the power in him, deriving from his mother,

made him aware of the pattern of the cosmos above.]

When he gazed upon his creation surrounding him

He said to his host of demons

The ones who had come forth out of him:

“I am a jealous God and there is no God but me!

[But by doing this he admitted to his demons that there is indeed another God.

For, if there were no other God, whom would he possibly be jealous of?]

His mother began to move back and forth

Because she had become aware that she now lacked Light

For her brightness had dimmed.

[Since her consort had not approved of her actions, she grew darker]

[I said “Master, what does it mean ‘she moved back and forth’?

He laughed, saying, “It’s not as Moses said ‘upon the waters.’ Not at all.]

When she saw the evil that had taken place and

The theft of light that her son had committed

She repented.

In the darkness of ignorance

She began to forget.

She began to be ashamed.

But she could not yet return above

Yet she began to move.

And so she moved back and forth.

[The arrogant one removed Power from his mother

For he was ignorant

He thought no one existed except for his mother.

He saw the host of demons he had created

And he elevated himself above them.

But when the mother realized that that miscarriage

Was so imperfect

She came to realize that her consort had not approved.

She repented and wept furiously.]

All of the divine realms (pleroma) heard her repentant prayer

They sought blessing for her from the Invisible Virgin Spirit.

The Spirit consented.

He poured the Holy Spirit over her

Brought forth from the whole full realm.

[Her consort did not come down to her on his own,

but he came through the whole full realm

to restore her to her original condition.]

She was elevated above her son,

But she was not restored to her own original realm.

She would remain in the ninth sphere until she was fully restored."

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Humanity Begins

"Then came a voice from the highest realms saying:

“The Man exists! And the Son of Man!

Yaldabaoth, chief ruler, heard it

He thought it came from his mother

He did not know the true source of the voice:

The Holy Mother-Father

Perfect Providence

Image of the Invisible

Father of Everything

In whom everything has come to be.

The First Man

[This is the one who appeared to them.

He appeared in the form of a human being.]

All of the realm of the chief ruler quaked!

The foundations of the abyss moved!

He illuminated the waters above the world of matter,

His image shown in those waters.

All the demons and the first ruler together gazed up

Toward the underside of the newly shining waters.

Through that light they saw the Image in the waters.



Yaldabaoth said to his subordinate demons:

“Let’s create a man according to the image of God

And our own likeness

So that his image will illuminate us.

Each one through another’s Power created aspects of the man;

Each added a characteristic corresponding to the psychic factors

They had seen in the Image above them.

They made a creature of substance

In the likeness of that perfect First Man

And they said, “Let us call him Adam, so that his name will give us the power of light.

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Construction of the Human Body

"The seven Powers began to work:

. Goodness made a psyche of bone

Providence made a psyche of sinew

Divinity made a psyche of flesh

Lordship made a psyche of marrow

Kingdom made a psyche of blood

Zeal made a psyche of skin

Understanding made a psyche of hair

The host of demons took these substances from the Powers to create the limbs and the body itself. They put the parts together and coordinated them.

The first ones began by making the head: Abron created his head; Meniggesstroeth created the brain; Asterechme the right eye; Thaspomocha, the left eye; Ieronumos, the right ear; Bissoum, the left ear; Akioreim, the nose; Banenrphroum, the lips; Amen, the front teeth; Ibikan, the molars; Basiliademe, the tonsils; Achcha, the uvula; Adaban, the neck; Chaaman, the neckbones; Dearcho, the throat; Tebar, the shoulder; Mniarcon, the elbow; Abitrion, the right arm; Evanthen, the left arm; Krys, the right hand; Beluai, the left hand; Treneu, the fingers of the right hand; Balbel, the fingers of the left hand; Kriman, fingernails; Astrops, the right breast; Barroph, the left breast; Baoum, the right shoulder joint; Ararim, the left shoulder joint; Areche, the belly; Phthave, the navel; Senaphim, the abdomen; Arachethopi, the right ribs; Zabedo, the left ribs; Barias, the right hip; Phnouth the left hip; Abenlenarchei, the marrow; Chnoumeninorin, the skeleton; Gesole, the stomach; Agromauna, the heart; Bano, the lungs; Sostrapal, the liver; Anesimalar, the spleen; Thopithro, the intestines; Biblo, the kidneys; Roeror, the sinews; Taphreo, the spine; Ipouspoboba, the veins; Bineborin, the arteries; Atoimenpsephei, respiration; Entholleia, the flesh; Bedouk, the right buttock; Arabeei, the penis; Eilo, the testicles; Sorma, the genitals; Gormakaiochlabar, the right thigh; Nebrith, the left thigh; Pserem, the kidneys of the right leg; Asaklas, the left kidney; Ormaoth, the right leg; Emenun, the left leg; Knyx, the right shin; Tupelon, the left shin; Achiel, the right knee; Phnene, the left knee; Phiouthrom, the right foot; Boabel, its toes; Trachoun, the left foot; Phikna, its toes; Miamai, the toenails.

And those who were appointed over all of these are:

Zathoth,

Armas,

Kalila,

Iabel,

Sabaoth,

Cain,

Abel.

The energizing powers in the limbs were divided among:

the head made by Diolimodraza; the neck by Yammeax; the right shoulder Yakouib; the left shoulder Verton; the right hand Oudidi; the left Arbao; the fingers of the right hand Lampno; the fingers of the left hand Leekaphar; the right breast Barbar; the left breast Imae; the chest Pisandriaptes; the right shoulder joint Koade; the left shoulder joint Odeor; the right ribs Asphixix; the left ribs Synogchouta; the abdomen Arouph; the womb Sabalo; the right thigh Charcharb; the left thigh Chthaon; the genitals Bathinoth; the right leg Choux; the left leg Charcha; the right shin Aroer; the left shin Toechtha; the right knee Aol; the left knee Charaner; the right foot Bastan; its toes Archentechtha; the left foot Marephnounth; its toes Abrana.

Seven govern the whole body:

Michael,

Ouriel,

Asmenedas,

Saphasatoel,

Aarmouriam,

Richram,

Amiorps.

The one who governs perceptions: Archendekta

The one who governs reception: Deitharbathas

The one who governs imagination: Oummaa

The one who governs integration: Aachiaram

The one who governs impulse: Riaramnacho.



There is a fourfold source of the bodily demons:

Hot, Cold, Dry, Wet.

[Matter is the mother of them all.]

Ruler of hot: Phloxopha

Ruler of cold: Oroorrothos

Ruler of dry: Erimacho

Ruler of wet: Athuro.

Their mother stands among them: Onorthochrasaei

She is unlimited

She mixes with all of them.

She is matter

And they are nourished by her.

The four chief demons are:

Ephememphi, associated with pleasure,

Yoko, associated with desire,

Nenentophni, associated with distress,

Blaomen, associated with fear.

Their mother is Esthesis-Zouch-Epi-Ptoe.

Out from these four demons come passions:

From distress arises

Envy, jealousy, grief, vexation,

Discord, cruelty, worry, mourning.

From pleasure comes much evil

And unmerited pride,

And so forth.

From desire comes

Anger, fury, bitterness, outrage, dissatisfaction

And so forth.

From fear emerges

Horror, flattery, suffering, and shame.

[Their thought and truth is Anayo, the ruler of the material soul.

It belongs with the seven senses, Esthesis-Zouch-Epi-Ptoe.]

This is the total number of the demons: 365

They worked together to complete, part by part, the psychical and the material body.

There are even more of them in charge of other passions

That I didn’t tell you about.

If you want to know about them

You will find the information in the Book of Zoroaster.

All of Yaldabaoth’s servants and his demons

Worked to finish the psychic body.

For a very long time it lay inanimate

It did not move.

Yaldabaoth’s mother wanted to take back the Power

She had turned over to the Chief Ruler.

She earnestly asked the most merciful,

The Mother-Father of everything,

For help."

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Yaldabaoth Deceived

"By His sacred command He sent down the five Lights

In the forms of the principal advisors to Yaldabaoth.



They told Yaldabaoth:

“Blow some of your Spirit in the man’s face,

Then his body will rise up.

Yaldabaoth blew some of his Spirit into the man.

That Spirit was the divine Power of his mother.

[He didn’t understand what was happening, for he lived in ignorance.]

His mother’s divine Power left Yaldabaoth

It entered the psychic human body

Modeled on the primordial image.

The human body moved!

It grew powerful!

It shone!

Yaldabaoth’s demonic forces envied the man.

Through their united efforts he had come into being

They had given their Power to him.

His understanding was far greater than that of those who had created him.

And greater than that of the Chief Ruler himself.

When they realized that he shone with light

And could think better than they could

And was naked of evil,

They took him and cast him down

Into the lowest depths of the material world."

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The Beginning of Salvation

"The blessed one.

The Mother-Father

The good merciful one

Looked compassionately upon the Mother’s Power

Relinquished by the Chief Ruler.

Since Yaldabaoth’s demons might again overpower the perceptible psychic body

He sent down from his good Spirit a helper for Adam,

Out of his great compassion

A light-filled Epinoia emerged.

And he called her Life (Zoe).

She aids the entire creation

Working with him

Restoring him to the fullness.

She taught Adam about the way his people had descended

She taught Adam about the way he could ascend,

Which is the way he had descended.

The light-filled Epinoia was hidden in Adam.

So that the rulers wouldn’t know about her

For Epinoia would repair the disaster their mother had caused.

[Adam was revealed because within him dwelt the shadow of light.

His mental abilities were far greater than those of his creators.

They had gazed upward and seen his exalted mental capability.]

The host of rulers and demons plotted together

They mixed fire and earth and water

Together with four blazing winds

They melded them together in great turbulence.

Adam was brought into the shadow of death.

They intended to make him anew

This time from

Earth,

Water,

Fire,

Wind,

Which are

Matter,

Darkness,

Desire,

The Artificial Spirit.

This all became a tomb,

A new kind of body.

Those thieves bound the man in it,

Enchained him in forgetfulness,

Made him subject to dying.

[His was the first descent

And the first separation.

Yet the light-filled Epinoia within him will elevate his thinking.]"

[TruthBringer]

Adam in Yaldabaoth's Paradise

"The rulers took the man and put him into paradise

They told him to eat freely.

[Their food is bitter; their beauty is corrupt.

Their food is deceit; their trees are ungodliness.

Their fruit is poison.

Their promise is death.]

They placed the Tree of Their Life into the middle of paradise.

[I will teach you (plural) the secret of their life:

The plan that they made together about an artificial spirit.]

Its root is bitter

Its branches are dead.

Its shadow is hatred

Its leaves are deception

The nectar of wickedness is in its blossoms.

Its fruit is death

Its seed is desire

It flowers in the darkness.

Those who eat from it are denizens of Hades

Darkness is their resting place.

As for the tree called “The Knowledge Of Good And Evil

It is the Epinoia of the light.

They commanded him not to eat from it,

Standing in front to conceal it,

For fear that he might look upwards to the fullness

And know the nakedness of his indecency.

[However, I caused them to eat.

I asked the Savior,

“Lord, isn’t it the serpent that caused Adam to eat?

He smiled and replied,

“The serpent caused them to eat

in order to produce the wickedness of the desire to reproduce

that would make Adam helpful to him.]

The chief ruler, Yaldabaoth, knew that

Because the light-filled Epinoia within Adam

Made his mental abilities greater than his own,

Adam had been disobedient.

In order to recover the Power that he had put into Adam

Yaldabaoth made Adam completely forgetful.

[I asked the Savior, “What is it to be ‘completely forgetful?’

He replied, “It is not what Moses wrote in his first book:

‘He caused Adam to fall into deep sleep’

Rather, Adam’s perceptions were veiled

And he became unconscious.

As he (Yaldabaoth) said through his prophet:

'I will make their minds dull so that they do not see or understand.']"

[TruthBringer]

Woman Comes into Being

"The light-filled Epinoia hid deep within Adam.

The Chief Ruler tried to remove her from his ribcage,

But Epinoia cannot be captured.

Although the darkness pursued her it did not catch her.

The Chief ruler did remove a portion of his Power from Adam

To create a person with a woman’s form

Modeled on the light-filled Epinoia that had been manifested to him.

He placed the Power removed from the man into the woman.

[It did not happen the way Moses said it did:

“he took a rib and made the woman.]

Adam saw the woman standing next to him.

The light-filled Epinoia immediately appeared to him

She raised up the veil that dulled his mind.

He sobered up from the dark drunkenness

And he recognized his own counterpart.

He said: “This is bone from my bones

Flesh from my flesh.

Because of this a man will leave his mother and father

And be joined to a woman and those two will become one flesh.

For they will send his helper to him.

[Sophia, our sister, came down

Descending innocently

So as to regain what she had lost.

Therefore she was called Life.

The Mother of the Living

The one from the Providence of the Authority of Heaven

By her assistance people can achieve perfect knowledge.]

I appeared as an eagle perched on the Tree of Knowledge!

[Which is the Epinoia from the pure Providence of Light.]

In order to teach them

And raise them up from sleep’s depths.

[For the two of them were fallen and aware of their nakedness.

Epinoia appeared as a being full of light

She enlightened their minds.]

When Yaldabaoth discovered that they had moved away from him

He cursed his earth.

He located the woman as she was preparing herself for her man.

He gave the woman over so that the man might be her master,

Because he did not know the secret of the divine strategy.

The man and woman were too terrified to renounce Yaldabaoth,

Who showed his ignorance to his angels

And he cast both of them out of paradise

Dressing them in heavy darkness.



The Chief Archon saw the young woman who was standing by Adam.

He realized that the light-filled Epinoia of life was within her.

Yaldabaoth became completely ignorant.

[When the Providence of all saw what was going to happen

She sent assistants to remove Divine Life from Eve.]

Yaldabaoth raped Eve.

She bore two sons.

[Elohim was the name of the first.

Yahweh was the name of the second.

Elohim has a bear’s face.

Yahweh has a cat’s face.

One is righteous;

One is not.

Yahweh is righteous;

Elohim is not.

Yahweh would command fire and wind

Elohim would command water and earth.]

Yaldabaoth deceptively named the two: Cain and Abel.

[From then until now sexual intercourse has persisted

Thanks to the Chief Ruler

Who put desire for reproduction into the woman who accompanies Adam.

Through intercourse the Ruler caused new human bodies to be produced

And he blew his artificial spirit into each of them.]

Yaldabaoth installed the two with authority over natural elements

So they can to rule over the tomb."

[TruthBringer]

The Children of Seth Populate the World

"Adam had intercourse with the image of his foreknowledge (prognosis)

He begot a son like the Son of Man

And he called that son Seth

Modeling him on the heavenly race in the higher realms.

In the same way the mother sent down her spirit

The image of herself

A model of the full higher realm,

In order to prepare a place for the descent of the realms.

The Chief Ruler, though, forced the humans to drink

From waters of forgetfulness

So that they might not know their true place of origin.

The children (of Seth) remained in this condition for a while

In order that when the Spirit descends from the holy realms

The Spirit can raise up the children and heal them from all defects

And thus restore complete holiness to the fullness of God."

[TruthBringer]

Three Plots against Humanity

"The Mother-Father is merciful

A Holy Spirit sympathizing with us.

Through the Epinoia of the Providence of the light

It raises up the children of the perfect race

Raising up their thought, their light eternal.

When the Chief Archon learned that they were elevated above him

And that their mental ability surpassed his

He wanted to put a stop to their thought

But he did not know the extent of their mental superiority

And he could not stop them.

He made a plan with his demons

Who are his powers

Each of them fornicated with Wisdom (Sophia)

And produced fate

The last variety of imprisonment.



Fate changes unpredictably

It is of different sorts just as the demons are of different sorts.

Fate is hard.

Fate is stronger than

The gods, the authorities, the demons, the generations of people

Who are caught up in it.

Out of fate emerged

Sinfulness, violence, blasphemy, forgetfulness, ignorance,

Weighty commandments

Heavy sins

Terrible fear.

In this way all of creation became blind,

Ignorant of God above everything.

Because of imprisonment in forgetfulness

They are unaware of their sins,

They are bound into periods of time and seasons

By fate who is lord of it all.

Yaldabaoth eventually came to regret everything he had created.

He decided to bring a great flood

Upon creation, upon mankind.

But the great light of Providence warned Noah.

He preached to all of the children,

The sons of men,

But if they were strangers to him they didn’t listen.

[It was not the way Moses said: “they hid in an ark.

Rather, they hid in a special place,

Not just Noah

but also many other people from the immovable race.

They went into hiding within a cloud of light.]

Noah knew his own authority

And that of the light Being who illuminated them

Although the Chief Ruler poured darkness over all the world.

The Chief Ruler and his powers plotted a strategy,

To send his demons to human daughters

And make themselves children by them to enjoy.

But they failed.

After their failure they made another plan.

They created an artificial spirit

Modeled on the Spirit who descended

So, to impregnate souls by means of this spirit,

The demons changed appearance

to look like the women’s husbands

They filled the women with that spirit of darkness and wickedness.

They brought into being

Gold and silver,

Money and coins,

Iron and other metals and all things of this sort.

And the people who were attracted were led astray into troubles

And were greatly misled.

And grew old

Experiencing no pleasure,

And died

Finding no truth,

Never knowing the true God.

This is the way that they enslaved all of creation

From the foundation of the world until now.

[They took some women and produced children out of darkness

And they closed their hearts

And they hardened themselves

in the hardness of their artificial spirit

Until the present day.]"

[TruthBringer]

Ok so that is all for tonight that appears to be the primary document for Gnostic Christianity as far as the story of Creation goes. I will however look for other documents tomorrow that can be added onto it if there are any. If there aren't, then I will move onto the next documents of recorded events and or importance that would come in order after this one.

[TruthBringer]

By the way I just wanted to add that if I am reading this correctly, the creatures ("the demons") who constructed the original Human body used the genes of the following animals to do so:

1. A Sheep

2. A Donkey

3. A Hyena

4. A Snake

5. A "Dragon" (Could this be a reference to some kind of Reptile on the planet at that time?)

6. A Monkey

Now what interests me about this most is that scientists have indeed come to the conclusion that our genes are very similar to that of a monkey, and, if I remember correctly, someone else on this board stated in a different thread that our genes are also similar to that of a donkey's. So 2 of out 5 isn't bad....

It's also interesting that the Sumerian tablets which predate the Biblical scriptures give reference to "Alien beings" mixing together genes to come up with a Human Figure such as we have today. This is all very interesting to me. Not to mention that the Gnostic Christian story of Sophia unleashing Evil by accident into reality is very similar to the legend of Pandora and her box of Evils that she accidentally unleashed which comes from Greek Mythology and that mythological story appears to originate 7 to 8 centuries BC.

So somehow this document is coinciding with the stories/legends of two different cultures which existed thousands of years before it and yet somehow it matches up perfectly with some of their stories even though the Gnostic Christians had no knowledge of those two cultures or at least this is what science currently understands about them.

[TruthBringer]

Also, I'm going to go out on a limb here, and I could be entirely wrong with this assumption, but I am going to assume that this document is also hinting the following....

1. That the genes for our bones came from that of a Sheep.

2. That the genes for our tendons came from that of a Donkey.

3. That the genes for our flesh/soft tissue/skeletal muscle and fat came from that of a Hyena

4. That the genes for our marrow came from that of a Snake.

5. That the genes for our blood came from that of some kind of Reptile different from a Snake.

6. That the genes for our skin came from that of a Monkey.

The 7th, our Hair, is the one that confuses me. I don't understand what this document appears to be hinting at for that. It isn't really specific about what kind of creature the genes for our hair could have come from. Flame and fire is the only hint it gives. So I am guessing it is stating that flame and fire was a part of the process for splicing together the genes for our hair? The only four creatures on that list that even have hair are the Hyena, the Donkey, the Sheep, and the Monkey. So possibly it was a mix of the four? Although a Snake's scales and other Reptile scales are made out of keratin which is the same material that hair and fingernails are made out of. So it might be possible to get the genes for hair from them as well.

[littleCJelkton]

Do the monkey with me

[Ted]

Francis Collins, head of the world genome project has also noted that our genetic structure is very close to that of the rat.

shalom

Ted

[TruthBringer]

Looks like this is going to be a bit harder than I thought but I am definitely working on it.

[Ted]

Gnosticism was one of the many Christianities that developed after the crucifixion of Jesus. Like Judaism there was more than one flavor. Just so there were many flavors of Christianity at the time and obviously nothing has changed.

Shalom

Ted