God Above God : Before the Beginning

June 1, 1998 / Rev Illuminatus Maximus / / mind

"One should not think of it as a god, or like a god. For it is greater than a god, because it has nothing over it and no lord above it. It does not exist within anything that is inferior to it, since everything exists only within it...

It is impossible to say, 'How much is it?' or 'What kind is it?' for no one can understand it. It is not one among many things that are in existence: it is much greater. Not that it is actually greater. Rather, as it is in itself, it is not a part of the worlds or of time, for whatever is part of a world was once produced by something else."

“The Secret Book of John.” The Secret Teachings of Jesus. Trans. Marvin W. Meyer. Vintage, 1984. 57-58.

In Search of the Alien God

Before there was a God, a heaven or an earth, there was only the Alien God, the infinite and eternal mind who dreams all realities:

“There is a perfect preexistent Aeon, dwelling in the invisible and unnameable elevations… in quiet and in deep solitude for infinite aeons.” ((”The Valentinian System Of Ptolemaeus.” The Other Bible. Ed. Willis Barnstone. Harper San Francisco, 1984.))

Extending forever in every direction, the Alien God is the only being which can perceive itself in its totality – for the Alien God is consciousness itself:

“It looks to every side and sees itself from itself. Since it is infinite, it is ever incomprehensible. It is imperishable and has no likeness (to anything)… While it is not known, it ever knows itself.” ((“The Sophia of Jesus Christ.” The Nag Hammadi Library. Ed. James Robinson. HarperCollins, 1978. 224-225.))

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1 Comments

Glen Cram on April 8, 2013 at 8:43 pm

Hello Reverend, as a fellow Gnostic you may like my novel in progress The Acts of Simon Magus in the First Century AD. http://simonmagus.com especially this: http://simonmagus.com/readings/passion-sophia in which Simon invents the Gnostic myth as an infomercial. I hope you enjoy it!

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