Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
Sophia's ignorance of God and the suffering that results. It is the suffering that results
from her error that constitutes the material realm.”
“Layton (1987) points out, the Valentinian teaching exemplified by the Gospel of Truth
"is strongly anti-materialist, even illusionist, as regards the reality of material
structures".
“In contrast to the reality of the Father, "those things which are 'outside' of the Fullness
have no true existence... These things are images of those which truly exist." (Irenaeus
Against Heresies 2:14:3). The things we perceive in the physical world are often
described as "images" or "shadows" of the divine realm. (Valentinian Exposition 36:10-
13, Irenaeus Against Heresies 1:5:1,2:6:3, etc.)”
http://www.gnosis.org/library/valentinus/Valentinian_Monism.htm
The following is the presentation of Gnostic idea, where everything emanated fro the
One Parent. In the Christian Gnosticism the first appearance cameas the Trinity of
The Father – the thinking Nous or Mind
The Mother – the thought, the Ennoia/ Barbelo the Higher Wisdom
The Son, the person incarnate of the Father, thought thinking itself – The Christ.
From the Christ arose the First Adam, the heavenly spiritual Anthropos.
Valentinianism was a religious doctrine named after the Gnostictheologian Valentinius
who lived in the 2nd century. While Gnostic traditions are typically regarded as dualistic,
"a standard element in the interpretation of Valentinianism and similar forms of
Gnosticism is the recognition that they are fundamentally monistic" (Schoedel, William,
"Gnostic Monism and the Gospel of Truth" in Bentley Layton (ed.) The Rediscovery of
Gnosticism, Vol.1: The School of Valentinus, E.J. Brill, Leiden.).
195