Thursday, December 20, 2007

Apocryphon of John (II, 1) 19.15-33

"And when the mother wanted to retrieve
the power which she had given to the chief archon,
she petitioned the Mother-Father
of the All, who is most merciful. He sent,
by means of the holy decree, the five lights
down upon the place of the angels of
the chief archon. They advised him that they should
bring forth the power of the mother. And they said
to Yaltabaoth, 'Blow into his face
something of your spirit and
his body will arise.' And he blew
into his face the spirit which is the power
of his mother; he did not know (this), for he exists
in ignorance. And the power
of the mother went out of
Yaltabaoth into the natural body,
which they had fashioned after the image of the one who
exists from the beginning. The body moved and gained strength,
and it was luminous."