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, 42
though where we are to seek the proto- ^ OF type of it whether along some single THE ROBE OF GLORY. line of Babylonian, Chaldaean, Magian, Syrian or Egyptian mystagogy, or as a common possession of Chaldaea and Egypt is hard to say. i. In the Mago-Chaldaean system under lying the early Simonian document The Great Announcement (see The Gnostic Crucifixion, pp. 40 ff.) : The the Power Depth f The Great f Power, of J incomp rehensible : _ _. The First Man Son of Man The First Woman,Holy Spirit or Breath The Christ = ( The Father, Mind of 43 the Universals. ~ , , , , Great Thou ht - ^u TV/T-JJI T^- The Middle Distance, Incomprehensible He who has stood, stands, and will stand.
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