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| An Extravagant Way of Accounting for the Communication of the Spiritual Nature to Man. It Was Furtively Managed by Achamoth, Through the Unconscious Agency of Her Son.
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Chapter XXV.—An Extravagant Way of Accounting for the
Communication of the Spiritual Nature to Man. It Was Furtively Managed
by Achamoth, Through the Unconscious Agency of Her Son.
In Achamoth, moreover, there was inherent a
certain property of a spiritual germ, of her mother Sophia’s
substance; and Achamoth herself had carefully severed off (the same
quality), and implanted it in her son the Demiurge, although he was
actually unconscious of it. It is for you to imagine6846
the industry of this clandestine
arrangement. For to this end had she deposited and concealed
(this germ), that, whenever the Demiurge came to impart life to Adam by
his inbreathing, he might at the same time draw off from the vital
principle6847
the spiritual seed,
and, as by a pipe, inject it into the clayey nature; in order that,
being then fecundated in the material body as in a womb, and having
fully grown there, it might be found fit for one day receiving the
perfect Word.6848
When, therefore,
the Demiurge commits to Adam the transmission of his own vital
principle,6849
the spiritual man
lay hid, although inserted by his breath, and at the same time
introduced into the body, because the Demiurge knew no more about his
mother’s seed than about herself. To this seed they give the name
of Ecclesia (the Church), the mirror of the church above, and
the perfection6850
of man; tracing
this perfection from Achamoth, just as they do the animal nature
from the Demiurge, the clayey material of the body (they derive) from
the primordial substance,6851
| 6851 Or, the substance of
᾽Αρχή. | the flesh from
Matter. So that you have a new Geryon here, only a fourfold (rather
than a threefold) monster.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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