Occult Art : Visions of Gnosis

In Search of the Alien God

"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, from Marvin Meyer’s The Secret Teachings Of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels, pp. 57-58, pub. A.D. 1986)