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| At the Last Day Great Changes Take Place Amongst the Æons as Well as Among Men. How Achamoth and the Demiurge are Affected Then. Irony on the Subject.
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Chapter XXXI.—At
the Last Day Great Changes Take Place Amongst the Æons as Well as
Among Men. How Achamoth and the Demiurge are Affected Then. Irony on
the Subject.
It remains that we say something about the end of
the world,6893
and the dispensing
of reward. As soon as Achamoth has completed the full harvest of her
seed, and has then proceeded to gather it into her garner, or, after it
has been taken to the mill and ground to flour, has hidden it in the
kneading-trough with yeast until the whole be leavened, then shall the
end speedily come.6894
Then, to begin
with, Achamoth herself removes from the middle region,6895
| 6895 See above, ch. xxiii.
p. 514. | from the second stage to the highest, since
she is restored to the Pleroma: she is immediately received by that
paragon of perfection6896
Soter, as her
spouse of course, and they two afterwards consummate6897
new nuptials. This must be the spouse of the
Scripture,6898
| 6898 Query, the Holy
Scriptures, or the writings of the Valentinians? | the Pleroma of
espousals (for you might suppose that the Julian laws6899
| 6899 Very severe against
adultery, and even against celibacy. | were interposing, since there are these
migrations from place to place). In like manner, the Demiurge, too,
will then change the scene of his abode from the celestial
Hebdomad6900
| 6900 In ch. xx. this
“scenam de Hebdomade cælesti” is called
“cælorum septemplicem scenam” ="the sevenfold stage of
heaven.” | to the higher
regions, to his mother’s now vacant saloon6901
| 6901 Cœnaculum. See
above, ch. vii. p. 506. | —by this time knowing her, without
however seeing her. (A happy coincidence!) For if he had caught a
glance of her, he would have preferred never to have known
her.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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