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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. (54)
Neither would he be omniscient, for he could not know how it was before his Father had generated him.
Tripartite Tractate
The Process of Restoration (4)
The Father had foreknowledge of him, since he was in his thought before anything came into being, and since he had those to whom he has revealed him. He set the deficiency on the one who remains for certain…
Book of Enoch
Chapter XXXIX (11)
He knows before the world was created what is for ever and what will be from generation unto generation.
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…
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
The Father (5)
He is of such a kind and form and great magnitude that no one else has been with him from the beginning; nor is there a place in which he is, or from which he has come forth, or into which he will go; nor is there a primordial form, which he uses…
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VI, Khanda 2 (2)
No, my dear, only that which is, was in the beginning, one only, without a second....
Tripartite Tractate
The Conversion of the Logos (2)
Those who had come into being not knowing themselves both…
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (4)
The infant, while in the form of a fetus has enough for itself, before ever seeing the one who sowed it. Therefore, they had the sole task of searching for him, realizing that he exists, ever wishing to find out what exists.…
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…
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (9)
It is impossible for anyone to conceive of him or think of him. Or can anyone approach there, toward the exalted one, toward the preexistent in the proper sense?…
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…
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.…
Tripartite Tractate
The Imperfect Begetting by the Logos (5)
This aeon was last to have <been> brought forth by mutual assistance, and he was small in magnitude. And before he begot anything else for the glory of the will and in agreement with the…
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Emanations (5)
The Father brought forth everything, like a little child, like a drop from a spring, like a blossom from a vine, like a flower, like a <planting> [...], in need of gaining nourishment and growth and faultlessness. He withheld it for a time.…
Tripartite Tractate
The Father (3)
Not only is he the one called "without a beginning" and "without an end," because he is unbegotten…