The Barbelo
Beautiful and mysterious, the goddess “Barbelo” was born as the Alien God saw his own reflection in “the water of life” and fell in love.
“His thought became active” and Barbelo emerged from this “luminous water” as the Alien’s God’s “first Thought… She became the universal womb, for she precedes everything.” [1]
ROLE OF THE BARBELO
If the Alien God is nothing, consciousness without separation, timeless and unchanging, then the Barbelo is everything, infinite consciousness overflowing into multiplicity, the mind of God at play with itself.
Barbelo serves as the active, energetic complement to the Alien God’s passive principle of potential form - the driving force behind creation, fertility, birth and dynamic growth:
“I am androgynous. I am both Mother and Father since I copulate with myself. I copulate with myself and with those who love me, and it is through me alone that the All stands firm. I am the Womb that gives shape to the All by giving birth to the Light that shines in splendor…” [2]
FOOTNOTES
1. The Secret Book of John, from Marvin Meyer’s The Secret Teachings Of Jesus : Four Gnostic Gospels, pp. 58-59, pub. A.D. 1986
2. The Trimorphic Protennoia, from James M. Robinson’s The Nag Hammadi Library, p.519, pub. A.D. 1978
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