About this episode
This episode explores the teachings from the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi, focusing on the hierarchy of the Fullness and the creation of the Second Order of Powers.
Every once in a while I like to go back and share with you the original scriptures out of the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi from which I derive these teachings. So this week will be scripture-heavy. Don’t worry if the language is unwieldy or unfamiliar. You’ll get the hang of it. The original economy was that of the hierarchy of the Fullness, wherein every Aeon knew its place, position, and duties for cooperative overall functioning. The Aeons of the Fullness dream as one of Paradise. Each of the Fullnesses lived in a state of joy, benevolence, and harmonious agreement, giving glory to the Father and never to each other or to themselves, according to the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi, verse 86. The Second Order of Powers was created to establish a new economy to replace the deficiency that had arisen as a result of the Fall of Logos. Logos and the Fullness brought forth these little ones of the Second Order so they could receive the life-giving light born from the thought of brotherly love of the preexistent Fullnesses, in contrast to the phantoms that had arisen from the Fall. These powers of remembrance resembled the Aeons whose likenesses they were, and they…
People in this episode
Host: Cyd Ropp, Ph.D.
Topics covered
- Gnosticism
- Nag Hammadi
- spiritual teachings
- Aeons
- Second Order of Powers
- scripture analysis
Keywords
- Gnostic redemption
- Nag Hammadi
- Tripartite Tractate
- Aeons
- spirituality
- scripture
- Fullness
- Powers
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi
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