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Gospel of Philip
Creating and Procreating (Creating and Procreating)
There is the child of humankind, and there is the child of the child of humankind. The child of humankind is the master, and the child of the child of humankind is the one who creates through the child of humankind.…
Tripartite Tractate
The Creation of Material Humanity (5)
It is fitting that we explain about the soul of the first human being, that it is from the spiritual Logos, while the creator thinks that it is his, since it is from him, as…
Corpus Hermeticum
2. To Asclepius (17)
The other name of God is Father, again because He is the that-which-maketh-all. The part of father is to make. Wherefore child-making is a very great...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 1 (6.1.6)
Verily, he who knows procreation (prajatf) procreates himself with progeny and cattle. Semen, verily, is procreation. He procreates himself with...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXIII: The Same Subject Continued. (11)
For production is twofold - of things procreated, and of things that grow.
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 8: Of the Creation of the Creatures, and of the Springing up of every growing Thing; as also of the Stars and Elements, and of the Original of the a Substance of this World. (40)
An Example whereof you have in Propagation; for the Sake whereof the Separation was so made: For you see that there is a Male and a Female; and that t...
Tripartite Tractate
The Creation of Material Humanity (2)
The thought which is set between those of the right and those of the left is a power of begetting. All those which the first ones will wish to make, so to speak, a projection of theirs, like a shadow cast from and following a body, those things…
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. (27)
He should have generated an Image again like himself; but because he went into the Spirit of this World, therefore his Body became earthly, and so the...
Apocryphon of John
Barbelo Conceives (Barbelo Conceives)
The father gazed into Barbelo, with the pure light surrounding the invisible spirit, and its radiance. Barbelo conceived from it, and it produced a spark of light similar to the blessed light but not as great.…
Apocryphon of John
The Human Appears (The Human Appears)
A voice called from the exalted heavenly realm, The human exists and the human child. The first ruler, Yaldabaoth, heard the voice and thought it had come from his mother.…
Tripartite Tractate
The Imperfect Begetting by the Logos (17)
The thought of these others was not barren, but just like <those> of which they are shadows, all that they thought about they have as potential sons…
Corpus Hermeticum
10. The Key (3)
Again, the parent is the children's cause, both on the father's and the mother's side, only by sharing in the Good's desire [that doth pour] through...
Apocryphon of John
Yaldabaoth Defiles Eve (Yaldabaoth Defiles Eve)
When Yaldabaoth realized that the humans had withdrawn from him, he cursed his earth. He found the woman as she was preparing herself for her husband.…
Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Bembine Table of Isis (46)
Proclus says: "Every property of divinity permeates all creation and gives itself to all inferior creatures. "One of the manifestations of the...
The Three Principles of the Divine Essence
Chapter 11: Of all Circumstances of the Temptation. (4)
But because the Creatures were material, therefore every Kind [Species or Generation] must thus propagate itself from every Essence; but with the Ange...
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 (7)
There is no need for voice and spirit, mind and word, because there is no need to work at that which they desire to do, but on the pattern by which he was existing, so are those who have come forth from him…
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…
Chapter 6: How an Angel, and how a Man, is the Similitude and Image of God. (2)
But with this Difference only, that an Angel and a Man is a Creature, and not the whole Being, but a Son of the whole Being, whom the whole Being has ...
Tripartite Tractate
The Creation of Material Humanity (3)
Like that of all else is the creation of mankind as well. The spiritual Logos moved him invisibly, as he perfected him through the Demiurge and his angelic servants, who shared…
Asclepius
Section XX (3)
He, then, alone, yet all-complete in the fertility of either sex, ever with child of His own Will, doth ever bring to birth whatever He hath willed...
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