Friday, April 10, 2009

Judas, God & the Adamas, the First Human

Last week, we discussed a bit about the gnostic myth of creation. Briefly, the important points are that
A) the creator of our physical world is not the highest God, but a lesser being; the highest God is generally unknown to both this cosmos and to that lesser God; and,
B) the way to be saved is to realize that we are not 'of' this world; our home is the realm of the highest, unknown God.

This first reading is about that higher realm.

Jesus said, “[Come] that I may teach you about [secrets] no person [has] ever seen. For there exists a great and boundless realm, whose extent no generation of angels has seen, [in which] there is [a] great invisible [Spirit],
which no eye of an angel has ever seen,
no thought of the heart has ever comprehended,
and it was never called by any name.
“And a luminous cloud appeared there. He said, ‘Let an angel come into being as my attendant.’

“A great angel, the enlightened divine Self-Generated, emerged from the cloud. Because of him, four other angels came into being from another cloud, and they became attendants for the angelic Self-Generated.”

Who is ...the great invisible? ...the self-generated? (These aren't trick questions, btw.)

After the first-born of creation, the heavens were generated, but the 'image' that would later inspire the creation of the first physical human was a spirit sort of at the center of the unfolding heavens:
“Adamas was in the first luminous cloud that no angel has ever seen among all those called ‘God.’ He […] that […] the image […] and after the likeness of [this] angel. He made the incorruptible [generation] of Seth appear […] the twelve […] the twenty four […]. He made seventy-two luminaries appear in the incorruptible generation, in accordance with the will of the Spirit. The seventy-two luminaries themselves made three hundred sixty luminaries appear in the incorruptible generation, in accordance with the will of the Spirit, that their number should be five for each.

“The twelve aeons of the twelve luminaries constitute their father, with six heavens for each aeon, so that there are seventy-two heavens for the seventy-two luminaries, and for each [of them five] firmaments, [for a total of] three hundred sixty [firmaments …].”

Does anyone recall the 360 from our previous readings? What might that tell us?

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