Theos-Talk Archives (November 2002 Message tt00781)

Steve,
Have you read G. R. S. Mead's "Fragments of a Faith Forgotten?" It 
seems like
you have. Also In his "Pistis Sophia(Faith Wisdom}" we find the 
Mystery Play 
about the Cosmic Creation involving Yaldabaoth and his 7 Archons. 
Yaldabaoth
was called "The Abortion of Sophia" in this Gnostic Mystery Drama. One 
day
he proclaims "I Am God - and there is none Above Me!". Sophia, the 
inseparable
Consort of the Father overhears him utter this thought from the 
Heights of the
Superior Plane from which she had cast Yaldabaoth into a Lower Realm, 
and 
calling down to Yaldabaoth below tells him "Say not that Yaldabaoth, 
for there
is yet One above thee". In this construction Yaldabaoth performs the 
function of
the Demiurgos and Creator of the Material Creation along with his 
Seven Archons.

Thanks to the publication of long lost works we can glean a window 
into the actual
tenets held by some of these today obscure groups.

The Nag Hammadhi Library is a Treasury of these Documents recovered 
after so
many centuries of exile.

John