The Hymn of the Robe of Glory (Echoes

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In the Parable there is no mention of HYMN OF THE ROBE the Divine Mother, the Queen of the OF GLORY. East ; and this is in keeping with later Rabbinical exclusion of the Divine Femi nine. But in the circles of the Mystics the Holy Spirit was regarded as feminine, the Spouse of Divinity, and in the Wisdomliterature Wisdom herself. As in the other great traditions, so also in pre-Christian Jewish Gnostic circles, the natural Trinity was a fundamental of their symbolism, and so also a system of the Christianized Gnosis. in many The origin of the Dual Sonship, how ever, must, in one direction at any rate, be sought for along that very obscure line of descent that is called Ophite (Naassene), and which has its roots in the pre-Christian Gnosis and the wide spread Myth of Man (see H. i. 139-198). THE DUAL SONSHIP. A faint trace of this is preserved for us in a system which the polemical Refutation (I. xxx) of Irenaeus associates 40
" " " with the Ophite tradition, but which THE Theodoret (Hcer. Fab. I. xiv.) ascribes TH R BE to the Sethians. Unfortunately the OF GLORY. original Greek text of Irenaeus is here lost, and we have to be content with the barbarous Old-Latin translation ; in addi tion the Church Father is very hostile and contemptuous, and at no great pains to understand the objects of his detesta tion. Such as it is, however, we will set it down : But others again give forth por tentous utterances : that there dwells in the Power of the Depth a certain Primal Light, blessed, indestructible, boundless ; this is the Father of all and is called the First Man. They declare further that His Thought proceeding from Him, is the Son of Him who sends forth [His Thought] and ; that this Thought is Son of Man, the Second Man. That below these again is the Holy Spirit ; and below this Highest Spirit, the [Primal] Elements were separated
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