Greco-Christian stream·Pistis Sophia·First Book — Post-Resurrection Discourses·Chapter 12
He entereth the first sphere
He entereth the first sphere
Source context
- Theme
- early post-resurrection revelatory discourse in the Gnostic Christian sequence
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Pistis Sophia / Coptic Gnostic revelation dialoguePost-resurrection discourse framing — the risen Christ as initiator of gnosis to assembled disciples — is the structural template shared across Coptic-Gnostic revelation literature, situating Chapter 12 within that established genre.
- Hermetic traditionThe Hermetic dialogic form (Nous or Poimandres as revealer to the initiate) exhibits cross-tradition congruence with the post-resurrection discourse structure as a vehicle for transmitted higher knowledge.
Chapter 12
CHAPTER 12
He entereth the first sphere."And I left that region behind me and ascended to the first sphere, shining most exceedingly, forty-and-nine-times more brightly than I had shone in the firmament. It came to pass then, when I had reached the gate of the first sphere, that its gates were shaken and opened of themselves at once.
The powers of the first sphere are amazed and fall down and adore him."I entered into the houses of the sphere, shining most exceedingly, and there was no measure to the light that was about me. And all the rulers and all those who are in that sphere, fell into agitation one against another. And they saw the great light that was about me, and they gazed upon my vesture and saw thereon the mystery of their name. And they fell into still greater agitation, and were in great fear, saying: 'How hath the lord of the universe passed through us without our knowing?' |22. And all their bonds were unloosed and their regions and their orders; and every one left his order, and they fell down all together, adored before me, or before my vesture, and all sang
praises together to the interiors of the interiors, being in great fear and great agitation.