"Divinity tempted,
unrest stirring among the blessed Aeons,
God's erring wisdom, Sophia,
falling prey to her own folly
wandering in the void and darkness of her own making
endlessly searching, lamenting, suffering, repenting,
laboring her passion into matter,
her yearning into soul;
a blind and ignorant Creator,
believing himself the Most High,
and lording it over the creation,
the product, like himself, of fault and ignorance;
the Soul, trapped and lost
in the labyrinth of the world,
seeking to escape but frightened back
by the gatekeepers of the cosmic prison,
the terrible Archons;
a Savior from the Light beyond
venturing into the nether world,
illumining the darkness, opening a path,
healing the divine breach:
a tale of light and darkness,
of knowledge and ignorance,
of serenity and passion,
of conceit and pity,
on the scale not of man
but of eternal beings
who yet are not exempt from suffering and error".
Hans Jonas 1957
Preface to The Gnostic Religion, p.xiii
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