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This is the first thought, his image; she became the womb of everything, for it is she who is prior to them all, the Mother-Father , the holy Spirit, the thrice-male, the thrice-powerful, the thrice-named androgynous one, and the eternal aeon among the invisible ones, and the first to come forth.
Zostrianos continues wondering about the Triple Powered Invisible perfect Spirit and its existence. Apophantes and Aphropais lead him to Protophanes, where he unites with the Kalyptos aeon, the virginal Barbelo, and the Invisible Spirit, becoming all-perfect and empowered. Zostrianos returns to the Self-generated Aeons and receives a true image.
Four luminaries are typically listed in Sethian Gnostic texts, such as the Secret Book of John, the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and Zostrianos. The luminaries are considered to be emanations of the supreme divine triad consisting of the Father (Invisible Spirit), the Mother ( Barbelo ), and the Child ( Autogenes ).
The third power of the Triple-powered leads Marsanes into the aeon Barbelo and explains that the knowledge and hypostasis of the Triple-Powered One is the source of its power. Marsanes sees the place of the invisible Spirit and it unfolds until it reaches the upper region, causing the whole place to be illuminated.
The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, also known as the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians, [1] [2] is a Sethian Gnostic text found in Codices III and IV of the Nag Hammadi library. The text describes the origin of three powers: the Father, the Mother, and the Son, who came forth from the great invisible Spirit.
The content of the text is Sethian and, thus, shares beliefs with other Sethian Gnostic works, such as the Apocryphon of John, Zostrianos, Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, and Three Steles of Seth. The first-person pronouncements are similar to those in The Thunder, Perfect Mind. [5]
Hymn 3: Praise of the Barbelo begins on the Second Stele and continues to praise Barbelo as both Seth and Geradamas, beginning with “Masculine, Virgin, first aeon…” Verse 121:20 This hymn tends to focus more on the Barbelo and its prominent role being a self-reflection of the One. You are One belonging to the One: and you derive from its ...
They started to view the pre-existing Christ as the "self-generated Son of Barbelo", who was "anointed with the Invisible Spirit's 'Christhood '". According to Turner, this "same anointing [was] received by the Barbeloites in their baptismal rite by which they were assimilated to the archetypal Son of Man." The earthly Jesus was regarded as the ...