DeConick A.D

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SUPERPOWERS AND MONSTERS
They fear his great intelligence and his obvious superiority. So they throw
him down from the heavens into the lowest realms of matter, on earth.
This descent into matter subdues Adam and wipes away his memory of
his true identity. The rulers further distract him with the pleasures of food
and sex with his wife, Eve. This is how Adam and Eve become the servants
of Ialdabaoth in the Garden of Eden, crippled by the kryptonic trappings
of physical existence.
Stealth Sethian Superpowers
The rest of the interpretation of the history of humankind is portrayed as
a struggle between the monster Ialdabaoth and the supreme God, over
the luminous spirit embedded in the human soul. Ialdabaoth wants to
keep it within his creation because possessing it empowers him to enslave
humans. The supreme God wants it back. This means that the supreme
God must send emissaries incognito to alert humans to their plight. These
are stealth Sethian superpowers who travel down through the realms of
existence, from the world of the supreme God to the world of Ialdabaoth,
to fight him.
The Sethian superpowers are very much like Superman and Superwoman,
who disguise themselves as weak human beings. The Sethian emissaries
are divine entities that belong to the world of the supreme God.
As they descend, they take on bodies appropriate to the realms through
which they pass. These bodies help them blend in so that their descent
is hidden from the eyes of Ialdabaoth and his lieutenants, who suspect
nothing until it is too late.
In Sethian mythology, the supreme God is conceived as a hermaphrodite.
This hermaphrodite all-lord is known as the Father God and the
Invisible Spirit. In the Sethian stories about the origin of the world, the
first thing to happen is one of the only things that a solitary numinous
being can do: he thinks about himself.
His first thought about himself manifests as the hermaphrodite Mother
God, who is known by the name Barbelo. As an overflow or extension of
the father, Barbelo is also called the First Man. Barbelo embodies God’s
thoughts. She is his Protennoia (Forethought), his Ennoia (Thought),
and his Epinoia (Afterthought). She generates foreknowledge, indestructibility,
eternal life, and truth.