Greco-Christian stream·Pistis Sophia·First Book — Post-Resurrection Discourses·Chapter 16
Source context
- Theme
- Pistis Sophia's repentance-cry and recognition of light-power from within the chaos
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
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Cross-tradition
- Psalmic lament tradition (Hebrew)The metanoia-hymn structure of Pistis Sophia's cry from chaos mirrors the lament-and-deliverance pattern of the Psalms of Ascent, a cross-tradition congruence the text itself exploits through Mary Magdalene's Psalm-based interpretations.
- Neoplatonic descent-and-return cosmologyThe soul's recognition of its own light-origin while entrapped in lower hylic regions shows cross-tradition congruence with Plotinus's account of the soul's self-recollection (Enneads I.6) as the precondition for upward reversion.
Chapter 16
CHAPTER 16
"It came to pass then, when I came into their region, that they mutinied and fought against the light. And I took the third of their power, in order that they should not be able to accomplish their evil deeds. And the Fate and the sphere, over which they rule, I have changed, and set them facing the left six months and accomplishing their influences, and I have set them turned another six months to the right and accomplishing their influences."