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CRAZY, DELUSIONAL GERMAN BELIEFS

CHAPTER 5

ADDITIONAL CREATION MYTHS

Before we analyze these myths, let’s look at other creation myths mentioned by Ehrman to point out the differences and inconsistencies in these accounts. He writes on p. 59 of his book “The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot”:

“There are different myths told in different texts [a number of them found at Nag Hammadi, a village in Egypt], and they cannot all be reconciled in their many details. Still, most of these myths start before the beginning described in the book of Genesis, when there existed just one transcendent, completely unknown and unknowable divine being who was exclusively spirit, with nothing material about him. In eternity past, this divine being generated other divine beings out of himself as personification of his own characteristics...Some of these divine beings themselves, in pairs, generated yet other divine beings. Eventually the heavenly realm was filled with such divine beings, often called “aeons.” Together the aeons make up the entire divine realm, known as the Pleroma, which literally means “the fullness.”

“All of this took place before there was any universe. There was only a divine realm. But a cosmic disaster occurred. One of the aeons for some reason fell from the divine realm, leading to the generation of a different kind of divine being, one who was generated not within the Pleroma but outside it. This misshapen and imperfect being is called by different names – most commonly Yaldabaoth, which may be related to the name of God in the Old Testament, Yahweh, Lord of Sabbaths. This divine miscarriage is, in fact, the creator god of the Jews, who ignorantly proclaimed, “I am God and there is no other.” He simply didn’t know that there were other gods, far superior to him in power and knowledge. They dwelt where he had never been, in the divine realm of the Pleroma.

“Yaldabaoth generated yet other imperfect divinities, and together they became the creator(s) of the material world, which they made as a place for imprisonment for that aeon that had fallen from the Pleroma (sometimes known as Sophia, the Greek word for “Wisdom”). Human bodies were created in order to house sparks of this divine being, Sophia.

“That brings us to the state of the world today. Why is it a place of such misery, pain, and suffering? Because it is not the good creation of the ultimate true God. It is the faulty creation of a lower, inferior, ignorant, and (sometimes) evil deity. The goal of salvation, therefore, is not to create a paradise on earth, a Kingdom of God in this realm. THE GOAL IS TO ALLOW THE DIVINE SPARKS SCATTERED AMONG HUMANITY TO ESCAPE THIS MATERIAL WORLD, TO BECOME REUNITED, AND RETURN TO THE REALM WHENCE THEY CAME?” [Emphasis added].

It's not clear if the goal is for the divine sparks to all unite together as one entity and return to the divine realm or unite with the divine being from whom they emanated or separated. Nowhere is it explained what caused this separation.

Salvation in Hinduism and Sikhism is quite similar which is for the eternal soul in the human being to qualify to escape the human body with its cycle of birth, death and transmigration through 8.4 million different creatures on earth and repeat the cycle through human birth again till one qualifies for salvation which is to forever escape the cycle of birth, death, transmigration and rebirth as a human being to finally merge with the Supreme God. These similarities about salvation provide strong evidence for the common origins of pagan religions such as Gnosticism and Hinduism because after the Flood they all originated with Cush, Nimrod and Semiramis.

Nowhere do the myths address what happened to Sophia. Does she still exist, or did she completely disintegrate? If she still exists, why can’t she get her divine sparks back to herself and unite with her, as that is the goal of the divine sparks in the myths? Why did she allow the creation of her creation to entrap her divine sparks in human bodies if that is an evil thing?

Here are some other inconsistencies in the narratives. In the Sethian texts, the “Incorruptible [generation] of Seth” are the divine beings, created in the divine sphere, and have been entrapped in human beings. But in this version, divine sparks came out of Sophia which Saklas the fool, one of the assistants and creation of her creation, Yaldabaoth, entrapped in human bodies. If the goal of the divine sparks is to return to the ultimate divine realm from where they came, the Pleroma, then the divine sparks did not come from Sohpia, but came from the ultimate Supreme divine Being.

The goal of salvation stated here is to return to the realm whence they came. If the divine sparks came from Sophia, then they will NOT return to the Pleroma because Sophia fell from that realm and does not live there, if she exists at all which these accounts don’t mention. Not much of a goal in that case. That certainly puts all the Germans in a pickle.

In the discovered manuscript of the “Gospel of Judas” Jesus refers to “corruptible Sophia,” who was evidently responsible for bestowing immortal souls among some people (44:3-4). All that this explains is that Sophia herself was responsible for divine sparks emanating from her, which she allowed Saklas to capture.

WHO IS BARBELO

On Page 87 of “The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot”, Ehrman says: “...Judas stands up and confesses the truth about Jesus, that in fact he comes from another realm, that of Barbelo – a divine being known from other Gnostic texts as the mother of all creation (another aeon, p. 90, ibid.) who resided in the Pleroma, far above the realm of the creator God of this world.”

Marvin Meyer in his book “Judas: The Definitive Collection of Gospels and Legends about the Infamous Apostle of Jesus” says on p. 156: “Barbelo is the divine Mother and the first emanation of the divine in a number of Sethian texts, e.g., the Secret Book of John.”

Then on p. 104, Ehrman says: “In the Sethian version of the Gnostic myth, there is a kind of divine triad that stands at the head of all the aeons of the Pleroma: the Great Invisible Spirit (the Father), Barbelo (the Mother), and the Self-Generated (Autogenes, the Son).’ All these terms figure in the myth of creation found in the Gospel of Judas. Moreover, what is said about these figures in the Gospel of Judas corresponds to what can be found in some of the other, more complex Sethian mythological texts, such as the Secret Book of John...Again, from the Secret book of John, it is clear that she is the first to come forth from the Great Invisible Spirit.”

In some texts, Autogenes is the very first creation of the Supreme Spirit. But in others, his Mother Barbelo is the first emanation of the Supreme Spirit.

Here is another twist about Autogenes in the Secret Book of John: “And the holy spirit completed the divine Autogenes, his son, together with Barbelo, that he may attend the mighty and invisible, virginal Spirit as the divine Autogenes, the Christ whom he had honored...From the light, which is the Christ, and the indestructibility, through Secret the gift of the Spirit, the four lights [aeons] appeared from the divine Autogenes (II, 7).

Here Autogenes is called the Christ. On p. 113, Ehrman states: “In the Gospel of Judas, it is Judas alone who receives the mysteries [from Jesus]; in [the Gospel of] Thomas, it is Thomas alone. In both, the other disciples show they don’t understand Jesus.” There is no consistency in these spurious accounts, which is what one would expect in spurious accounts as they are not inspired by the only one and true God. They are irreconcilable. Though there are differences in the accounts of the four gospels in the Bible, they harmonize well and provide a more detailed, coherent picture of what happened.

Ehrman summarizes Judas’s place among the disciples from the discovered “Gospel of Judas” on p. 180 of his book “The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: “The Gospel of Judas” presents a different view [than the four gospels in the bible], insisting that Judas was the only one of the disciples who understood his Lord. Jesus came not from the creator god but from the “realm of Barbelo” [which would also be the Pleroma]. So too did some of us. Some of us are trapped here in the prisons of our bodies, but once we learn the truth that Jesus delivered to his one faithful disciple, Judas, we will be able to escape to return to our heavenly home. [Notice. No character development is required. You can be as evil as you want. It does not affect your salvation. All that is required for ‘salvation’ is to know the ‘truth’]. Judas is the one who leads the way. He is the “thirteenth,” because he stands outside the number of Jesus’ twelve disciples, who never did grasp his teachings and never did realize that their devotion to the creator god is misplaced. Only Judas had a glimpse of the truth. And so to him alone did Jesus reveal all that needs to be known. In return, Judas performed for him the greatest service imaginable. His betrayal was not the act of a traitor to the cause. It was a kind deed performed for the sake of his Lord. He turned Jesus over to the authorities so that Jesus could be killed and escape the confines of his body. In so doing, Judas is the greatest of all the apostles. In the memorable words of Jesus, “you will exceed them all, for you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.””

If you have found these Gnostic accounts of creation baffling, the reason is that these accounts are baffling even to the German masquerader scholars, who do not believe the bible account of creation but put their trust in the Gnostic accounts. This the best way I could arrange these accounts from the books I have referenced to highlight the key points. If you like to make logical sense out of various accounts, it must be disappointing for you as it is to me, as well as for the authors I have referenced.