At the beginning of time, Sophia (the world soul) broke away from Christ (the world spirit) and gave birth to Yaldabaoth, the arrogant creator-god of the Old Testament.
The exact process by which this cosmic fiasco occurred was the subject of much debate among the gnostics; in perhaps the oldest version of the story, Sophia’s desire somehow veiled infinity, casting a murky shadow which congealed into a dark ocean set apart from the realm of light:
“A veil exists between the World Above and the realms that are below; and Shadow came into being beneath the veil; and that Shadow became Matter; and that Shadow was projected apart. And what she [Sophia] had created became a product in the Matter, like an aborted fetus.” [1]
The pool of darkness transformed into a yawning abyss of chaotic energy and began to produce terrible, half-formed mutants:
“[And] as for the shadow, the powers which came into being after [it] called it “the limitless Chaos.” And out of it every race of gods was brought forth, both one and the other and the whole place…” [2]
NOTES
“The universe is not born of the design or act of a genetic God, particularly since the genetic God in the Bible is only a degenerate God. The universe emerges from the process of the infinite retreating upon itself, as if this infinite were characterized by a kind of impurity. This retraction of the infinite upon itself results in a fall, a plunge; it resembles a fissure or crack in a glass vessel. Concepts like a fissure or crack are quite useful as metaphors and are just as appropriate as the closely related metaphor of the big bang. In any case, the movement leads to a countermovement, that is, to a universe that creates and produces itself. This universe is paradoxical in nature because in it there is in fact complexity, complexes, and autogenetic organizations that nevertheless followed from phenomena of destruction.” [3]
- ”Hypostasis of the Archons.” The Other Bible. Ed. Willis Barnstone. Harper San Francisco, 1984. 79. [↩]
- ”On the Origin of the World.” The Other Bible. Ed. Willis Barnstone. Harper San Francisco, 1984. 64. [↩]
- Morin, Edgar. “Approaches to Nothingness.” Looking Back at the End of the World. Semiotexte, 1989. 85-86. [↩]
this is just another form of satanism. Trying to turn everything in old testament around so now its God who fell from Heaven and the serpent who is a savior. I dont know about you guys but i wont be tricked out of eternal life. Put your trust in Jesus Christ who died for the sins of the world and rose again on the third day.