Greco-Christian stream·Pistis Sophia·Second Book — The Repentances of Pistis Sophia·Chapter 78
James interpreteth the song from Psalm vii
Lord, my God, in thee have I hoped
Source context
- Theme
- archonic judgment of souls and the administration of post-mortem fate by the receivers of the light
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Egyptian funerary tradition (Book of the Dead)The weighing of the soul and assignment to post-mortem realms by divine judges shows cross-tradition congruence with the Pistis Sophia's schema of archonic receivers determining the soul's next vessel.
- Platonic eschatology (Phaedo, Republic X)Plato's depiction of daimonic guides assigning souls to reincarnation according to moral desert shows cross-tradition congruence with the chapter's graduated archonic judgment and soul-distribution.
- Valentinian GnosticismValentinian accounts of the Demiurge's realm as the site of soul-sorting and re-embodiment show structural cross-tradition congruence with the chapter's archonic judicial apparatus.
Chapter 78
CHAPTER 78
It came to pass then, when the First Mystery had finished saying these words unto the disciples, that he said: "Who hath understood the words which I have spoken, let him come forward and set forth their solution."
James came forward and said: "My Lord, concerning this song which Pistis Sophia hath sung, thus thy light-power hath prophesied aforetime through David in the seventh Psalm:
James interpreteth the song from Psalm vii."'1. O Lord, my God, in thee have I hoped. Free me from my pursuers and save me,
"'2. That in sooth he may never steal away my soul as a lion, without any one to deliver and save.
"'3. O Lord, my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,
"'4. If I have requited those who requite me with evil, then let me fall down empty through my foes.
"'5. And let the foe pursue after my soul and seize it, and trample my life to the ground and lay my honour in the dust. (Selah.)
"'6. Arise, O Lord, in thy wrath, raise thyself up for the end of my foes.
"'7. Arise according to the commandment which thou hast commanded.'" |173.
It came to pass then, when the First Mystery had heard James speak these words, that he said: "Well said, James, beloved."