Theos-Talk Archives (May 1996 Message tl00571)

The following is my own paraphrasing of a paragraph from
On the Origin of the World (found in the Nag Hammadi Library):

"After the nature of the Immortals was completed out
of the Boundless One, then a likeness called Sophia flowed out of
Pistis.  She wished that a work should come into being which is
like the First Light, and immediately her wish appeared as a
heavenly likeness, possessing an incomprehensible greatness,
which is in the middle between the immortals and those who came
into being after them, like what is above, which is a Veil which
separates men and those belonging to the sphere above.  Now the
Aeon of Truth has no shadow within it because the Immeasurable
light is everywhere within it.  Its outside, however, is a
shadow.  It was called "darkness."  Thus the Abyss is derived
from the Pistis."  (On the Origin of the World)

Jerry S.
Member, TI