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Summary In the beginning, according to some of the Gnostic myths, there was one true God, an all-powerful divine being who was totally spirit. This God was unlike everything we can imagine. He continues to exist even now, of course, but he is so great and so unlike anything human that he is far beyond anyone’s capacity to comprehend. He is unknown and unknowable. According to the Gnostics, at some point in eternity past, this divine spirit produced offspring, other divine beings who were also spirit. These offspring were produced as couples and were sometimes called “aeons.” Gnostics believed that some of these couples themselves produced offspring, eventually creating a large divine realm, inhabited by spiritual beings at greater or lesser removed from the true God. The myth continues with the notion that one of these aeons (named Sophia) exceeded her bounds by trying to comprehend the whole of the divine realm.
Approximate Word count = 589
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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