The Gospel of the Egyptians - Gnostic Adamas and Seth
Mar 3, 2020 9:20:55 GMT -5
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Post by Dave on Mar 3, 2020 9:20:55 GMT -5
I thought over the issue of Sodom and Gomorrah that Lansberry and McBride discussed. It's true that on one hand, an Egyptian myth of the god Seth involves homosexuality. Wikipedia's article on "Homosexuality in Ancient Egypt" contains the story from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt by which Seth raped Horus in order to humiliate him, but Horus caught Seth's seed in his hand. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Egypt#Horus_and_Seth). In the Gnostic "Gospel of the Egyptians," Seth's generation of his descendants is connected with Sodom and Gomorrah:
Then the great Seth came and brought his seed. And it was sown in the aeons which had been brought forth, their number being the amount of Sodom. Some say that Sodom is the place of pasture of the great Seth, which is Gomorrah. But others (say) that the great Seth took his plant out of Gomorrah and planted it in the second place, to which he gave the name 'Sodom'. This is the race which came forth through Edokla.
Let’s be theological historians for a moment
In my view – ahl Genesis predates all other creation stories
ahl Genesis is the base theology – all other creation ‘myths’ are aftermarket variations
I refer to – what I call – The Memoirs of Noah – all ‘Middle-Earth’ / dragons / trolls / demi-gods fables are very real memories of the era before the Flood.
For me - The Gospel of the Egyptians - The Nag Hammadi Library – is of Judeo-Christian origin and reflects the base theology – upon which – all ‘other god’ mythologies are aftermarket variations
To use the terminology of the Gnostic aeon / time period/ age / dimension - The Gospel of the Egyptians is speaking to the base aeon – the first version of the story – upon which – the religions of the ‘other gods’ reflect as aftermarket variations
Gnostic Seth is the archetypical man -- just as Job – they are representative of an entire race
Both Gnostic Seth and Job = any man / every man / me and you
The Gospel of the Egyptians - The Nag Hammadi Library
The holy book of the Egyptians about the great invisible Spirit, the Father whose name cannot be uttered, he who came forth from the heights of the perfection, the light of the light of the aeons of light, the light of the silence of the providence <and> the Father of the silence, the light of the word and the truth, the light of the incorruptions, the infinite light, the radiance from the aeons of light of the unrevealable, unmarked, ageless, unproclaimable Father, the aeon of the aeons, Autogenes, self-begotten, self-producing, alien, the really true aeon.
The God head = a Trinity
From that place, the three powers came forth, the three ogdoads that the Father brings forth in silence with his providence, from his bosom, i.e., the Father, the Mother, (and) the Son.
The <first> ogdoad, because of which the thrice-male child came forth, which is the thought, and the word, and the incorruption, and the eternal life, the will, the mind, and the foreknowledge, the androgynous Father.
Notice Order of Creation – the thought that expressed the Word is only definable by the image of the thrice-male child – who is the Word – Jn 1:1-4
The second ogdoad-power, the Mother, the virginal Barbelon, epititioch[...]ai, memeneaimen[...], who presides over the heaven, karb[...], the uninterpretable power, the ineffable Mother. She originated from herself [...]; she came forth; she agreed with the Father of the silent silence.
The Mother of all Creation – the Womb of all creation – she who begot herself – female
The third ogdoad-power, the Son of the silent silence, and the crown of the silent silence, and the glory of the Father, and the virtue of the Mother, he brings forth from the bosom the seven powers of the great light of the seven voices. And the word is their completion.
Christ the thrice-male child – and seven voices / aeons / dimension – 3 + 7 = 10
After this come the creation of the Pleroma – a Greek word simply meaning the fullness – the totality of the heavenly beings – angels / archons / any other spiritual being un-named or un-mentioned
Adamas – is the first man – this is not the same Adam as in Adam and Eve
We are still within the First Aeon – within the spiritual realm - The First Day of Creation
This is the Adam that consorted with Lilith of Jewish Kabbalah
This union produces many beings within the spirit realm
The Gospel of the Egyptians - The Nag Hammadi Library
Then the great Logos, the divine Autogenes, and the incorruptible man Adamas mingled with each other. … And thus there came forth from above the power of the great light, the Manifestation. She gave birth to the four great lights: Harmozel, Oroiael, Davithe, Eleleth, and the great incorruptible Seth, the son of the incorruptible man Adamas.
The Race of Adamas through his son Seth – and they
Then the great Seth, the son of the incorruptible man Adamas, gave praise to the great, invisible, uncallable, unnameable, virginal Spirit, and the <male virgin, and the thrice-male child, and the male> virgin Youel, and Esephech, the holder of glory and the crown of his glory, the child of the child, and the great Doxomedon-aeons, and the pleroma which I mentioned before; and asked for his seed.
Then – the female introduces RA into the theology
Then there came forth from that place the great power of the great light Plesithea, the mother of the angels, the mother of the lights, the glorious mother, the virgin with the four breasts, bringing the fruit from Gomorrah, as spring, and Sodom, which is the fruit of the spring of Gomorrah which is in her. She came forth through the great Seth.
Then the great Seth rejoiced about the gift which was granted him by the incorruptible child. He took his seed from her with the four breasts, the virgin, and he placed it with him in the fourth aeon (or, in the four aeons), in the third great light Davithe.
Lust – Gomorah – the root of sin - the conflict of yester ra with yester tov – causing
After five thousand years, the great light Eleleth spoke: "Let someone reign over the chaos and Hades." And there appeared a cloud whose name is hylic Sophia [...] She looked out on the parts of the chaos, her face being like [...] in her form [...] blood. And the great angel Gamaliel spoke to the great Gabriel, the minister of the great light Oroiael; he said, "Let an angel come forth, in order that he may reign over the chaos and Hades." Then the cloud, being agreeable, came forth in the two monads, each one of which had light. [...] the throne, which she had placed in the cloud above. Then Sakla, the great angel, saw the great demon who is with him, Nebruel. And they became together a begetting spirit of the earth. They begot assisting angels. Sakla said to the great demon Nebruel, "Let the twelve aeons come into being in the [...] aeon, worlds [...]." [...] the great angel Sakla said by the will of the Autogenes, "There shall be the [...] of the number of seven [...]." And he said to the great angels, "Go and let each of you reign over his world."
Sakla becomes the overseer of the Chaos in hades – and as rulers / authorities these chaos causing archon are given dominion over seven domains / kingdoms/ dimensions
Then the great Seth came and brought his seed. And it was sown in the aeons which had been brought forth, their number being the amount of Sodom. Some say that Sodom is the place of pasture of the great Seth, which is Gomorrah. But others (say) that the great Seth took his plant out of Gomorrah and planted it in the second place, to which he gave the name 'Sodom'.
Finally we enter the Second aeon – the age of Adam and Eve – the incorruptible race of the Great Seth the Son of Adamas – humanity on terra firma earth –
Adam and Eve = Cain and Able – The Race of Cain become diluted by the daughters of men
Able – is replace by Seth – and the Great incorruptible race of Seth = Enoch, Noah, and us
However, due to animal instinct driven sexual reproduction (Sodom and Gomorrah) the Race of Cain continues to dilute the Great Race of Seth via Noah’s daughters-in-law
The First Aeon – reflected by the Second Aeon
1st aeon – the HS formed the Chief Archon – without consorting with the Father – without direction by the Father – the end result was an expression of arrogance
The Hypostasis of the Archons - The Nag Hammadi Library
Opening his eyes, he saw a vast quantity of matter without limit; and he became arrogant, saying, "It is I who am God, and there is none other apart from me". When he said this, he sinned against the entirety. And a voice came forth from above the realm of absolute power, saying, "You are mistaken, Samael" – which is, 'god of the blind'.
2nd aeon – The Gospel of the Egyptians
And after the founding of the world, Sakla said to his angels, "I, I am a jealous god, and apart from me nothing has come into being," since he trusted in his nature.
Then a voice came from on high, saying, "The Man exists, and the Son of the Man." Because of the descent of the image above, which is like its voice in the height of the image which has looked out through the looking out of the image above, the first creature was formed.
And the flood came as an example, for the consummation of the aeon. But it will be sent into the world because of this race. A conflagration will come upon the earth. And grace will be with those who belong to the race, through the prophets and the guardians who guard the life of the race. Because of this race, famines will occur, and plagues. But these things will happen because of the great, incorruptible race. Because of this race, temptations will come, a falsehood of false prophets.
Over and over the same Great Contest plays out
Then the great Seth saw the activity of the devil, and his many guises, and his schemes, which will come upon his (Seth's) incorruptible, immovable race, and the persecutions of his powers and his angels, and their error, that they acted against themselves.
Then the great Seth gave praise to the great, uncallable, virginal Spirit, and the male virgin Barbelon, and the thrice-male child Telmael Telmael Heli Heli Machar Machar Seth, the power which really truly lives, and the male virgin Youel, and Esephech, the holder of glory and the crown of his glory, and the great Doxomedon-aeon, and the thrones which are in him, and the powers which surround them, and the whole pleroma, as I mentioned before. And he asked for guards over his seed.
The Great Seth – mankind – humanity – every man – any man – you and me –
Once we come to see the archon for who and what they are
We call upon the thrice-male child – for deliverance and salvation
The Great Seth asked for guards over his seed – just as Solomon asked wisdom for his people
As a reward – Seth is taken into heaven as Enoch was
Then the great Seth was sent by the four lights, by the will of the Autogenes and the whole pleroma, through <the gift> and the good pleasure of the great invisible Spirit, and the five seals, and the whole pleroma.
He passed through the three parousias which I mentioned before: the flood, and the conflagration, and the judgment of the archons and the powers and the authorities, to save her (the race) who went astray, through the reconciliation of the world, and the baptism through a Logos-begotten body which the great Seth prepared for himself secretly through the virgin, in order that the saints may be begotten by the holy Spirit, through invisible, secret symbols, through a reconciliation of the world with the world, through the renouncing of the world, and the god of the thirteen aeons, and (through) the convocations of the saints and the ineffable ones, and (through) the incorruptible bosom, and (through) the great light of the Father, who pre-existed with his Providence, and established through her the holy baptism that surpasses the heaven, through the incorruptible, Logos-begotten one, even Jesus the living one, even he whom the great Seth has put on. And through him, he nailed the powers of the thirteen aeons, and established those who are brought forth and taken away. He armed them with an armor of knowledge of this truth, with an unconquerable power of incorruptibility.
There he meets many and learns much – his revelation
I shall declare your glory truly, for I have comprehended you,
SOU IES IDE AEIO OIS, O AEON, AEON, O God of Silence!
I honor you completely. You are my place of rest, O Son ES ES O E, the formless one who exists in the formless ones, who exists raising up the man in whom you will purify me into your life, according to your imperishable name. Therefore, the incense of life is in me. I mixed it with water after the model of all archons, in order that I may live with you in the peace of the saints, you who exist really truly forever.
Again with 1948 Israel – 1945 Nag Hammadi
* * * This is the book which the great Seth wrote, and placed in high mountains on which the sun has not risen, nor is it possible (that it should do so). And since the days of the prophets and the apostles and the preachers, the name has not at all risen upon their hearts, nor is it possible (that it should do so). And their ear has not heard it.
The great Seth wrote this book with letters in one hundred and thirty years. He placed it in the mountain that is called 'Charaxio,' in order that, at the end of the times and the eras, by the will of the divine Autogenes and the whole pleroma, through the gift of the untraceable, unthinkable, fatherly love, it may come forth and reveal this incorruptible, holy race of the great savior, and those who dwell with them in love, and the great, invisible, eternal Spirit, and his only-begotten Son, and the eternal light, and his great, incorruptible consort, and the incorruptible Sophia, and the Barbelon, and the whole pleroma in eternity. Amen.
Egyptian God Set, also known as Seth and Suetekh, was the Egyptian god of war, chaos and storms …
brother of Osiris, Isis, and Horus the Elder, uncle to Horus the Younger, and brother-husband to Nephthys. His other consort was the goddess Tawaret, a hippo-headed deity who presided over fertility and childbirth. (https://www.ancient.eu/Set_(Egyptian_God)/#:~:text=Set%2C%20also%20known%20as%20Seth,presided%20over%20fertility%20and%20childbirth.)
Should not be confused with Gnostic Seth – other than Egyptian Seth is an aftermarket variation – an ‘other god’ religion based upon the base theology of ahl Genesis – retold / expounded upon / further detailed by the Gnostic literature