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Passages similar to: Aurora — Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are.
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Aurora
Chapter 7: Of the Court, Place and Dwelling, also of the Government of Angels, how these things stood at the Beginning, after the Creation, and how they became as they are. (37)
For if it was so, then must the Son of God have a Beginning, and the Father must have generated him at once, and then he could not be the Eternal Almighty Son of the Father, but was like a King, who had yet a greater King above him, who had generated him in Time, and in whose Power it was to alter and change him.
Tripartite Tractate
The Son and the Church (1)
Just as the Father exists in the proper sense, the one before whom there was no one else, and the one apart from whom there is no other unbegotten one, so too the Son exists in the proper sense, the one before whom there was no…
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 4: Of the true Eternal Nature, that is, of the numberless and endless generating of the Birth of the eternal Essence, which is the Essence of all Essences; out of which were generated, born, and at length created, this World, with the Stars and Elements, and all whatsoever moves, stirs, or lives therein. The open Gate of the great Depth. (44)
Seeing, now that we can find nothing in all Nature, of which we may say, This is God, or here is God, from whence we might conclude, that God might...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 22: Of the New Regeneration in Christ [from] out of the old Adamical Man. The Blossom of the Holy Bud. The noble Gate of the right [and] true Christianity. (53)
But God from Eternity was not the Son of Man, and therefore no Son of Man can proceed from the Trinity; therefore we must look upon it right. If Mary ...
Tripartite Tractate
The Son and the Church (2)
Not only did the Son exist from the beginning, but the Church, too, existed from the beginning. Now, he who thinks that the discovery that the Son is an only son opposes the statement (about the Church) because of the mysterious quality of the matter, it is not so.…
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (3)
They were forever in thought, for the Father was like a thought and a place for them. When their generations had been established, the one who is completely in control wished to lay hold of and to bring forth that which was deficient in the [...] and he brought forth those…
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 15: Of the a Knowledge of the Eternity in the Corruptibility of the Essence of all Essences. (63)
For that is the End of Nature, and has no such Essences; no comprehensible [or palpable] Thing enters therein; otherwise it would be a Filling and Dar...
Tripartite Tractate
The Father (1)
He existed before anything other than himself came into being. The Father is a single one, like a number, for he is the first one and the one who is only himself.…
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 3: Of the endless and numberless manifold engendering, [generating,] or Birth of the eternal Nature. The Gates of the great Depth. (1)
READER, understand [and consider] my Writings right, we have no Power or Ability to speak of the Birth of God [or the Birth of the Deity,] for it...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 2 (2)
No, my dear, only that which is, was in the beginning, one only, without a second....
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XIII: Valentinian's Vagaries About the Abolition of Death Refuted. (4)
Then the Lord would be superior to God the Creator; for the son would never contend with the father, especially among the gods. But the point that the...
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (8)
The Father, in accordance with his exalted position over the Totalities, being an unknown and incomprehensible one, has such greatness and magnitude, that, if he had revealed himself suddenly, quickly, to all the exalted ones among the aeons who had come forth from him, they…
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 18: Of the promised Seed of the Woman, and Treader upon the Serpent. And of Adam 's and Eve 's going forth out of Paradise, or the Garden in Eden. Also of the Curse of God, how he cursed the Earth for the Sin of Man. (21)
First, he is God, and is in the Father of Eternity, generated out of the Father of Eternity from Eternity, without Beginning and End, out of the...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 1: Of the first Principle of the Divine Essence. (4)
Now this cannot be expressed or described, nor brought to the Understanding by the Tongue of Man; for God has no Beginning. But I will set it down so...
Tripartite Tractate
The Father (8)
It is in the proper sense that he begets himself as ineffable, since he alone is self-begotten, since he conceives of himself, and since he knows himself as he is. What is worthy of his admiration and glory and honor and praise, he produces because of the boundlessness of his…
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (6)
The one whom he raised up as a light for those who came from himself, the one from whom they take their name, he is the Son, who is full, complete and faultless. He brought him forth mingled with what came forth from him [...] partaking of the [...] the Totality, in accordance…
Gospel of Truth
THE SON IS THE NAME AND REVELATION OF THE FATHER (THE SON IS THE NAME AND REVELATION OF THE FATHER)
The name of the father is the son. It is he who, in the beginning, gave a name to him who came from him, while he remained the same, and he conceived him as a son.…