Greco-Christian stream·Pistis Sophia·First Book — Post-Resurrection Discourses·Chapter 20
Jesus explaineth further the conversion of the spheres
Jesus explaineth further the conversion of the spheres
Source context
- Theme
- Pistis Sophia's second repentance and the soul's cry from material entrapment toward the light-realm
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Neoplatonism — Plotinus, Enneads I.6The soul's recognition of its fallen condition and its turning (epistrophē) toward the One presents a structural parallel to Pistis Sophia's repentance-cry directed toward the highest light.
- Kabbalah — Shevirat ha-KelimThe motif of divine light-sparks (nitzotzot) trapped in the shells of matter and yearning for restoration (tikkun) shows cross-tradition congruence with Pistis Sophia's entrapment in the chaos and appeal to the First Mystery.
- Hermetic tradition — Corpus Hermeticum I (Poimandres)The Poimandres account of the soul descending through planetary spheres and its subsequent recognition of its luminous origin parallels the structure of Pistis Sophia's lament and appeal for redemptive light.
Chapter 20
CHAPTER 20
She said: "My Lord, will all the men who know the mystery of the magic of all the rulers of all the æons of the Fate and of those of the sphere, in the way in which the angels who transgressed
have taught them, if they invoke them in their mysteries, that is in their evil magic, to the hindering of good deeds,--will they accomplish them henceforth from now on or not?"
Jesus explaineth further the conversion of the spheres.Jesus answered and said unto Mary: "They will not accomplish them as they accomplished them from the beginning, because I have taken away a third of their power; but they will raise a loan from those who know the mysteries of the magic of the thirteenth æon. And if they invoke the mysteries of the magic of those who are in the thirteenth æon, |30. they will accomplish them well and surely, because I have not taken away power from that region, according to the command of the First Mystery."