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| The Relative Positions of the Pleroma. The Region of Achamoth, and the Creation of the Demiurge. The Addition of Fire to the Various Elements and Bodies of Nature.
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XXIII.—The Relative Positions of the Pleroma. The Region of
Achamoth, and the Creation of the Demiurge. The Addition of Fire to the
Various Elements and Bodies of Nature.
Their most eminent powers, moreover, they confine
within the following limits, as in a citadel. In the most elevated of
all summits presides the tricenary Pleroma,6836
| 6836 Above, in chap. viii.,
he has mentioned the Pleroma as “the fulness of the thirtyfold
divinity.” |
Horos marking off its boundary line. Beneath it, Achamoth
occupies the intermediate space for her abode,6837
treading down her son. For under her comes the Demiurge in his own
Hebdomad, or rather the Devil, sojourning in this world in
common with ourselves, formed, as has been said above, of the same
elements and the same
body, out of the most profitable calamities of Sophia; inasmuch as, (if
it had not been for these,) our spirit would have had no space for
inhaling and ejecting6838
air—that
delicate vest of all corporeal creatures, that revealer of all colours,
that instrument of the seasons—if the sadness of Sophia had not
filtered it, just as her fear did the animal existence, and her
conversion the Demiurge himself. Into all these elements and bodies
fire was fanned. Now, since they have not as yet explained to us
the original sensation of this6839
in Sophia, I will
on my own responsibility6840
conjecture that its
spark was struck out of the delicate emotions6841
of
her (feverish grief). For you may be quite sure that, amidst all her
vexations, she must have had a good deal of fever.6842
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