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Monday, March 01, 2004 From the Nag Hammadi Library pp296-303 Thunder, in ancient myth, was the way in which god makes her/his presence known on earth. Here Thunder is allegorized as Perfect Mind=the extension of the D ivine into the world, owing much to the Stoic notion of Pneuma, the active intelligence in all things..in its manifestation as reason it was able to instruct about the way of Truth. It contains the concept of the immanence of the divine in all aspects of the world and is thus not a gnostic text. THE THUNDER : PERFECT MIND I was sent forth from the power, and I have come to those who reflect upon me, and I have been found among those who seek after me. Look upon me, you who reflect upon me, and you hearers, hear me. You who are waiting for me,take me to yourselves And do not banish me from your sight. And do not make your voice hate me, nor your hearing Do not be ignorant of me anywhere or at anytime. Be on your guard! Do not be ignorant of me. For I am the first and the last. I am the honored one and the scorned one. I am the whore and the holy one. I am the wife and the virgin. I am the mother and the daughter. I am the members of my mother. I am the barren one and many are her sons I am she whose wedding is great and I have not taken a husband. I am the midwife and she who does not bear. I am the solace of my labor pains. I am the bride and the bridegroom, and it is my husband who begot me. I am the mother of my father and the sister of my husband and he is my offspring. I am the slave of him who prepared me. I am the ruler of my offspring but he is the one who begot me before the time on a birthday. And he is my offspring in due time and my power is from him. I am the staff of his power in his youth and he is the rod of my old age And whatever he wills happens to me. I am the silence that is incomprehensible and the idea whose remembrance is frequent. I am the voice whose sound is manifold and the word whose appearance is manifold, I AM THE UTTERANCE OF MY NAME. Why, you who hate me, do you love me and hate those who love me? You who deny me, confess me, and you who confess me, deny me. You who tell the truth about me, lie about me, and you who have lied about me, tell the truth about me. You who know me, be ignorant of me, and those who have not known me, let them know me. For I am knowledge and ignorance. I am shame and boldness. I am shameless, I am ashamed. I am strength and I am fear. I am war and I am peace. Give heed to me. I am the one who is disgraced and the great one.... ................................................................................. I am the knowledge of my inquiry and the finding of those who seek after me and the command of those who ask of me and the power of the powers of my knowledge of the angels who have been sent at my word..... ............................................................................. I am.....within. I am....of the natures. I am....of the creation of the spirits. ...request of the souls I am control and the uncontrollable I am the union and the dissolution. I am the abiding and the dissolution. I am the one below, and they come up to me. I am the judgement and the aquittal. I, I am sinless, and the root of sin derives from me. I am lust in outward appearance , and interior self control exists within me. I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone and the speech which cannot be grasped. I am a mute who does not speak and great is my multitude of words.... ............................................................. For what is inside of you is what is outside of you, and the one who fashions you on the outside is the one who shaped the inside of you. And what you see outside of you, you see inside of you; IT IS VISIBLE AND IT IS YOUR GARMENT....... .................................................................... I am the name of the sound and the sound of the name I am the sign of the letter and the designation of the division.............. |
