THE EGYPTIAN FOUNDATIONS OF GNOSTIC THOUGHT

Ennead:
Parent=Deep=NUN
Demiurge/Parent/Logos/Nous/Anthropos
Gnosis
Life Hope
Rest Love
Resurrection Pistis
Rebirth Seal
Pleroma surrounding 12 Deeps:
1) all-source
2) all-wise
3) all-mystery
4) all-gnosis
5) all-chaste
6) every silence
7) insubstantial door=substance
8) forefather of forefathers
9) all-father/self-father
10) all-powerful
11) invisible one
12) Truth: Mother of the Aeons
Demiurge/Forethought:
4 Monads & 4 Gates, each with:
6 helpers/24 myriad powers/9 enneads/10 decads/12 dodecads/5 pentads
1 Overseer w/ three aspects:
1) unbegotten
2) true
3) unutterable
Aphrêdon + 12 beneficent ones
Forefather
Adam of the Light
Perfect Mind
DEEP
3 Parenthoods: 1) Covered One/Hidden God
2) 5 Trees/Only-begotten Logos
3) Silence/Source
IMMEASURABLE DEEP
3 Greatnesses: 1) Still One
2) Unknowable One + 365 Parenthoods = year
3) Infinite One
+ Sonship/Christ/Verifier
DEEP OF SETHEUS w/ 12 Parenthoods:
1) indivisible 2) incomprehensible 3) unknowable 4) silence
5) still 6) all-father 7) all-mystery 8) rest & resurrection 9) covered
10) thrice-male 11) triple-powered 12) truth
Separation of Existent from Non-Existent
(Existent = Eternal; Non-Existent = Matter)
Lord of Glory Separates Matter into Two Lands:
Land of Death and Darkness Land of Life and Light
It is important to lay out a schematic, even in the face of such a surfeit of
apparent erroneous elaboration, for it is only in this way that larger patterns can be
drawn out. In this case there are a number of apparent similarities with Eugnostos (see
Appendix B). The role of Nun and his enneads is replicated here, as is the emphasis