Greco-Christian stream·Pistis Sophia·First Book — Post-Resurrection Discourses·Chapter 23
Inheritance of the Height through the mysteries and shall be in the Treasury of the Light
Inheritance of the Height through the mysteries and shall be in the Treasury of the Light
Source context
- Theme
- post-resurrection discourse sequence within Gnostic Christian initiation narrative
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Gnostic Christian (Pistis Sophia / Codex tradition)Post-resurrection discourse literature presents the risen Christ as revealer of hierarchical aeon-structures and salvific gnosis to elect disciples, a structural form attested across Coptic Gnostic texts including the Pistis Sophia and the Books of Jeu.
- Hermetic traditionThe framing of esoteric teaching as revelation given by a divine instructor to initiated recipients after death-and-resurrection shows cross-tradition congruence with Hermetic dialogue literature such as the Poimandres, where Nous-as-revealer transmits cosmic knowledge directly to the seer.
Chapter 23
CHAPTER 23
Why the path of the æons was changedAnd Jesus answered and said unto Philip and to all the disciples together: "I have |33. changed their path for the salvation of all souls. Amēn, amēn, I say unto you If I had not changed their path, a host of souls would have been destroyed, and they would have spent a long time, if the rulers of the æons and the rulers of
the Fate and of the sphere and of all their regions and all their heavens and all their æons had not been brought to naught; and the souls would have continued a long time here outside, and the completion of the number of perfect souls would have been delayed, which [souls] shall be counted in the Inheritance of the Height through the mysteries and shall be in the Treasury of the Light. For this cause then I have changed their path, that they might be deluded and fall into agitation and yield up the power which is in the matter of their world and which they fashion into souls, in order that those who shall be saved, might be quickly purified and raised on high, they and the whole power, and that those who shall not be saved, might be quickly destroyed."