Yeah, i really dislike the mythology.
Basically:
Out of the Source comes all aspects of the mind. "Understanding" the wisdom within brings you back to the One from whence Sophia came. (I'm really saying "wisdom" when I say Sophia... if you dont catch it. Again, not earthly learning wisdom, it's more... instinctive? You can insert your own word for it
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The thoughts we...catch?... are not our own. I guess it's saying that nothing really is ours, or of the self. It's all from One. Forethought and Wisdom were the most important to the Gnostics who wrote this particular text. There are male and female energies simply to show how they all go together. Male and female have to be equally combined to come back to the Light. It's just discussing the balancing act of everything. Mentioning the luminaries has to do with numbers. In the majority of religious movements of that time, numbers played an important part in relating the message that people were trying to get across to one another. The more ways you learn to tell a story, the broader your audience becomes.
It also talks about the birth of ignorance from wisdom. Aside from the mythological crap, just understand that
knowing something in this physical/materialistic world leads to pseudo-wisdom, which is ignorance. And when people are ignorant of what they are, they **** up. Knowing, or the false assumption of security, takes away from spiritual understanding and seeing the Source.
The Good and all it's "beings" created the perfect man. A model in heaven for all to look up to. He is with One. That is the most important thing, really, that he is with the Source. Adamas doesn't do much. We dont hear much about him, actually, after that chapter. His son, Seth, is awarded the title of perfect Son. A parallel to Yeshua. The main idea is that those people had been perfectly created into the One, and remain there. So should we.
All people are trying to do is answer questions that are unanswerable. "who are we?" "why are we here?" "what's our purpose?" The Source has everything... but really, it's not our place to know. We just have to exist understanding. If you ask questions, you will only have more questions...You may also get answers, but answers are a stopping block. They are what you choose to accept to keep your mind at peace. Yeshua said that you need to be disturbed in order to gain the true message. (somewhere in Thomas) Stop asking questions, stop getting answers, which are ignorant and pointless anyway.
The reason for the mythology is to split it up and explain everything at a slow pace for people. It's also meant to be slightly literalistic. But I refuse to see these texts in that light simply because I'm too stubborn. *smiles* Halcyon would argue that parts of the text are taken from actual events. Take it as you will. *shrugs*
That's all I have for now. More questions?
