The Fall of Sophia
“The power which overflowed from the Woman…fell from above [and] came down directly upon the waters, when they were motionless, […]
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The Alien God
Beyond the edge of the known universe, the alien god sleeps, submerged in an endless, shimmering pool. A ripple echoes across the timeless waters, the goddess Barbelo emerges, and together they conceive two divine children : Sophia (Wisdom) and Immortal Man (Christ).
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Immortal Man
The Gnostic trinity of Father, Mother and Child was made complete with the birth of Immortal Androgynous Man, first and
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The Infinite Aeons
Before the material world existed, the divine world was created, erupting from the ecstatic union of Sophia (the world soul)
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The Barbelo : Womb of the Universe
BIRTH OF THE BARBELO A convention common to many ancient philosophical speculations was the designation of deities as male and
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The Non-Existent God and the Multiverse
THE NON-EXISTENT GOD The main difference between the “Alien god” of gnosticism and the Biblical god of Genesis is the
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The Alien God and Panentheism
The gnostic Christians acknowledged a supreme being, but their god was not the bumbling, all-too-human creator god of the Bible.
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God Above God : Before the Beginning
Before there was a God, a heaven or an earth, there was only the Alien God, the infinite and eternal
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God’s Family Tree
“Seeing that everybody, gods of the world and mankind, says that nothing existed prior to chaos, I, in distinction, shall