Greco-Christian stream·Pistis Sophia·First Book — Post-Resurrection Discourses·Chapter 34
Source context
- Theme
- continuation of Pistis Sophia's repentance and petition to the Light amid the powers of the thirteenth aeon
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Neoplatonic emanationism (Plotinus, Enneads)The soul's descent into matter and its yearning return toward the One in Plotinus presents a cross-tradition congruence with Pistis Sophia's condition of entrapment below the thirteenth aeon and her repeated appeals to the highest Light.
- Kabbalistic teshuvah doctrineThe Kabbalistic concept of teshuvah as the soul's structured return through fallen sefirot toward Ein Sof shows cross-tradition congruence with Pistis Sophia's iterative repentance hymns directed upward through hierarchically ordered light-regions.
Chapter 34
CHAPTER 34
It came to pass then, when Mary had finished speaking these words unto Jesus in the midst of the disciples, that she said unto him: "My Lord, this is the solution of the mystery of the repentance of Pistis Sophia."|56.
It came to pass then, when Jesus had heard Mary speak these words, that he said unto her: "Well said, Mary, blessed one, the fulness, or all-blessed fulness, thou who shalt be sung of as blessed in all generations."