Prime Mover (Creator 1)=The One ---> The Soul Eve=Sophia --->
Creator 2 (Evil)=Yaldabaoth (lion faced with the body of a Serpent)
http://knowgnosis.tumblr.com/post/409156...-of-john-2
A Crisis That Became the World — The Fall
The gnostic Fall was in the mind of God. Actually it was a part of Epinoia or the First Thought or Image of God that sought to think for itself — apart from God — that caused all the trouble. (Independent thinking so often gets a bad press among religious groups.)
Without informing the Invisible Spirit that realm/aeon within Epinoia known as Sophia (= Wisdom) decided to self-generate (I guess this would be a perverted virgin birth) a thought of her own, her own image as the Invisible One had created an image of himself by his own self-awareness.
But she was a lesser order of being than the Invisible One, yet was powerful enough for her thoughts to produce a creation, and so out of her independent thought that did not involve God/the Invisible Spirit came a monstrosity. It was a hideous beast, body of a dragon and head of a lion and eyes flashing lightning.
Fearfully shocked, Sophia threw the creature out from the presence of the immortals and surrounded it with a great cloud to hide it. A gatekeeping throne was placed within that cloud.
The name of the creature was Yaldabaoth.![[Image: lion-faced_deity.jpg?w=205&h=252]](http://vridar.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/lion-faced_deity.jpg?w=205&h=252)
Yaldabaoth inherited creative powers from his mother, Sophia, moved away from his birthplace and became a chief ruler (archon) over realms or aeons that he himself would bring into being by his own thoughts.
Here is the beginning of what is soon to become the material world. For the first time we have a physical shape ascribed to a creation, and clouds and a throne appearing. But the creations of Yaldabaoth will be poor artificial imitations of what has been produced before. Literal physicality, however, is yet to appear.
Creator 2 (Evil)=Yaldabaoth (lion faced with the body of a Serpent)
http://knowgnosis.tumblr.com/post/409156...-of-john-2
A Crisis That Became the World — The Fall
The gnostic Fall was in the mind of God. Actually it was a part of Epinoia or the First Thought or Image of God that sought to think for itself — apart from God — that caused all the trouble. (Independent thinking so often gets a bad press among religious groups.)
Without informing the Invisible Spirit that realm/aeon within Epinoia known as Sophia (= Wisdom) decided to self-generate (I guess this would be a perverted virgin birth) a thought of her own, her own image as the Invisible One had created an image of himself by his own self-awareness.
But she was a lesser order of being than the Invisible One, yet was powerful enough for her thoughts to produce a creation, and so out of her independent thought that did not involve God/the Invisible Spirit came a monstrosity. It was a hideous beast, body of a dragon and head of a lion and eyes flashing lightning.
Fearfully shocked, Sophia threw the creature out from the presence of the immortals and surrounded it with a great cloud to hide it. A gatekeeping throne was placed within that cloud.
The name of the creature was Yaldabaoth.
![[Image: lion-faced_deity.jpg?w=205&h=252]](http://vridar.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/lion-faced_deity.jpg?w=205&h=252)
Yaldabaoth inherited creative powers from his mother, Sophia, moved away from his birthplace and became a chief ruler (archon) over realms or aeons that he himself would bring into being by his own thoughts.
Here is the beginning of what is soon to become the material world. For the first time we have a physical shape ascribed to a creation, and clouds and a throne appearing. But the creations of Yaldabaoth will be poor artificial imitations of what has been produced before. Literal physicality, however, is yet to appear.