Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Barbelo asks the virgin Spirit for foreknowledge, for incorruptibility, for everlasting life, for truth. The Spirit agrees. And then Sophia — Wisdom herself — acts alone, without the consent of her partner, and something imperfect comes out of her. The Gnostic cosmos begins in a flaw at the top. This is one of the strangest and most important passages in early Christian literature.
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