I am Protennoia, the Thought that dwells in the Light. I am the movement that dwells in the All, she in whom the All takes its stand, the first-born among those who came to be, she who exists before the All. She (Protennoia) is called by three names, although she dwells alone, since she is perfect. I am invisible within the Thought of the Invisible One. I am revealed in the immeasurable, ineffable (things). I am incomprehensible, dwelling in the incomprehensible. I move in every creature…

…I descended to the midst of the underworld, and I shone down upon the darkness. It is I who poured forth the water. It is I who am hidden within radiant waters. I am the one who gradually put forth the All by my Thought. It is I who am laden with the Voice. It is through me that Gnosis comes forth. I dwell in the ineffable and unknowable ones. I am perception and knowledge, uttering a Voice by means of thought. I am the real Voice. I cry out in everyone, and they recognize it (the voice), since a seed indwells them. I am the Thought of the Father, and through me proceeded the Voice, that is, the knowledge of the everlasting things. I exist as Thought for the All — being joined to the unknowable and incomprehensible Thought — I revealed myself — yes, I — among all those who recognize me. For it is I who am joined with everyone by virtue of the hidden Thought and an exalted , even a Voice from the invisible Thought. And it is immeasurable, since it dwells in the Immeasurable One. It is a mystery; it is unrestrainable by the Incomprehensible One. It is invisible to all those who are visible in the All. It is a Light dwelling in Light.

TRIMORPHIC PROTENNOIA, THE NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY: TRANSLATED BY JOHN D. TURNER

The topic of the Divine Feminine as brought forth in Gnostic works of Western origin is multifaceted and bewilderingly rich. Unlike the orthodoxy of Jewish and especially Christian faiths, where almost every trace of the Divine Feminine has been erased from the historical record and one must engage in assiduous research to follow the faint traces of Her former presence, it seems that every school of western Gnosticism had its own cosmology, pantheon of Aeons (higher powers), and soteriological myth, most of which incorporated some celebration of the Divine Mother. This delightful state of affairs affords multiple opportunities for those interested to compare and contrast the elements of the various schools of Gnosticism, among them the Sethians, the Valentinians, the Basilideans, the Neoplatonists, and numerous other hybrids and offshoots. Until the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices in 1945, the eschatology of Gnostic schools was known only by its adversarial refutations of the orthodox, namely through the letters of Irenaeus and Hippolytus of Rome. But with the gold-mine discovery of these Gnostic texts, hidden for almost two thousand years, one can now explore the source material directly.

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