The Hymn of the Robe of Glory (Echoes

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THE forth Water, Darkness, Abyss, Chaos ;
THE^OBE and on these was borne the Spirit, whom
OF GLORY, they call the First Woman.
Subsequently, they assert, the First
Man together with His Son, delighting in
the Beauty of the Spirit, that is the
Woman, and filling
Her with Light,
begat from Her Incorruptible Light, the
Third Man, whom they call the Christ,
Son of the First and the Second Man
and of the Holy Spirit, the First
Woman."
Here we have clearly set forth the idea
of the Dual Sonship though from a
different point of view from that of our
Poem and of Man, Son of Man, a term
that occurs frequently in the Gospels,
and which so far scholarship refuses to
explain gnostically, preferring to lose
itself in the philological labyrinth of a
quite unsatisfactory Aramaic Bar-Nasha.
That the ruling idea of the Dual
Sonship was widespread in Gnostic circles,
both non-Christian and Christianized, may
be seen from the following parallels,
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