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Passages similar to: Gospel of Truth — THE SON IS THE NAME AND REVELATION OF THE FATHER
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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.…
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…
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
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…
Gospel of Philip
The Name of the Father (The Name of the Father)
Only one name is not pronounced in the world: the name the father gave the son. It is the name above all; it is…
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 Emanation of the Savior (3)
The order which was his came into being from him who ran on high and that which brought itself forth from him and from the entire perfection. The one who ran on high became for the one who was defective an intercessor with the emanation of the aeons which had come into being in…
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
Aeonic Emanations (10)
All of them exist in the single one, as he clothes himself completely and by his single name he is never called. And in this unique way they are equally the single one and the Totalities.…
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Life (9)
It is by virtue of his will that the Father, the one who is exalted, is known, that is, (by virtue of) the spirit which breathes in the Totalities and it gives them an idea of seeking after the unknown one, just as one is drawn by a pleasant aroma to search for the thing from…
Tripartite Tractate
Aeonic Life (6)
All those who glorify the Father have their begetting eternally, - they beget in the act of assisting one another - since the emanations are limitless and immeasurable and since there is no envy on the part of the Father toward those who came forth from him in regard to their…
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
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
The Emanation of the Savior (6)
The one in whom the Father is and the one in whom the Totalities are <was> created before the one who lacked sight. He instructed him about those who searched for their sight, by means of the shining of that perfect light.…
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.…
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…
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VI: The Mystic Meaning of the Tabernacle and Its Furniture. (19)
Nay more, the oracles exhibits the prophecy which by the Word cries and preaches, and the judgment that is to come; since it is the same Word which pr...
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 (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
Aeonic Life (1)
All those who came forth from him <who> are the aeons of the aeons, being emanations and offspring of <his> procreative nature, they too, in their procreative nature, have <given> glory to the Father, as he was the cause of their establishment. This is what we said previously…
Tripartite Tractate
The Imperfect Begetting by the Logos (2)
So that it might be in this way, the one who wished to give honor does not say anything to him about this, except only that there is a limit to speech set in the Pleroma, so that they are silent about the incomprehensibility…
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