Pistis Sophia And Yaldabaoth Lecture

Question 1

What is the Pistis Sophia literally?

Answer 1

It is a series of books known as the Books of the Savior. It is considered to be the Bible of the Gnostic Christians.

Question 2

Who is Aberamentho in the Pistis Sophia?

Answer 2

Jesus Christ

Question 3

When was this series of books date of origin?

Answer 3

11 years after Jesus’s Resurrection

Question 4

In the story, how many Repentances did she give in accord to ascend back into the light after she lost it?

Answer 4

13 Repentances - which all have to do with our soul, our spirit, and our inner being.

Question 5

What does Elohim mean?

Answer 5

Gods and Godesses

Question 6

What does Aelohim mean?

Answer 6

Not God or Beyond God.

It negates what God is. It is called the absolute.

Question 7

What is the Absolute?

Answer 7

Abstract space. That is without attributes or limitations. Known as Sunyata, Void, Emptiness, Parabrahma, Adibudda. It’s a non-existence.

3 aspects of the Absolute: Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur

Question 8

When is God present in an individual?

Answer 8

When one has a Perfected Soul.

Question 9

Why do the Universe and its Gods exist?

Answer 9

Because of Karma.

Question 10

What is the Mahamanvantara and Mahapralaya?

Answer 10

The Great Cosmic Day and the Great Cosmic Night

Question 11

What are Paramarthasattyas?

Answer 11

Beings with perfect consciousnesses.

They can go in and out of the Absolute at will.

Question 12

All Gods that are not Paramarthasattyas are forced out of the Absolute when what occurs?

Answer 12

Mahamanvantara or The Great Cosmic Day.

Question 13

What are the 3 Aspects of the Absolute?

Answer 13

1. Ain which is the most incomprehensible aspect.
   13th Aeon
2. Ain Soph; where manifestations start
   12th Aeon
3. Ain Soph Aur; the ray of light from the Manifestations of Ain Soph into creation of the Trinity continuing to the physical world
   11th Aeon

Question 14

What does “Pistis” and “Sophia” mean in one word?

Answer 14

Mind-power and wisdom

Question 15

Pistis relates to which side of the tree of life? Vice versa Sophia?

Answer 15

Pistis (Power) - Left

Sophia (Wisedom) - Right

Question 16

Which Sephiroth is the kingdom of the physical body?

Answer 16

Malkuth 1st Aeon

Question 17

Where is the sexual energy deposited? The vital body or energetic body

Answer 17

Yesod 2nd Aeon

Question 18

What bodies are we born with?

Answer 18

Physical and Vital

Question 19

What is a vital body? Or Ethereal Body?

Answer 19

The Superior aspect of the physical body, composed of the energy or vital force that provides life to the physical body.
Known as subtle body; Hinduism calls it Pranamayakosa

Question 20

Which Sephiroth is related to the Astral Body - the center of emotions?

Answer 20

Hod- 3rd Aeon

This can be acquired by working with our sexual energies

Question 21

Which Sephiroth is related to the Mental body -mind and reasoning?

Answer 21

Netzach- 4th Aeon

Question 22

Which Sephiroth is the center of the human soul (masculine)?

Answer 22

Tiphereth 5th Aeon (masculine)

Question 23

Which Sephiroth obtains a leading majority of work?

Answer 23

Tiphereth because it is related to the human soul.

Question 24

Which Sephiroth is the spiritual soul (feminine) or buddhic body?

Answer 24

Geburah 6th Aeon

Question 25

What Sephiroth is related to the inner Spirit?

Answer 25

Chesed 7th Aeon

Question 26

Which Sephiroth is related to the Holy Spirit?

Answer 26

Binah 8th Aeon

Question 27

Which Sephiroth is related to the Son, where all the Beauty and Wisdom of the Christ resides?

Answer 27

Chokmah 9th Aeon

Question 28

Which Sephiroth is related to the father, spirit of the Spirit?

Answer 28

Kether 10th Aeon

Question 29

All of the characters and personages in the Pistis Sophia are related to what?

Answer 29

Parts of ourselves

Question 30

What is formed when all of the Sephiroth unite and form perfectly?

Answer 30

Diamond Soul

Question 31

Arcanum 24: the weaver represents what?

Answer 31

Elohim creates the Universe by weaving the fabric of reality by the power of creation.

Question 32

Reducing Arcanum 24 by adding 2+4=6; Arcanum 6 represents Indecision meaning what?

Answer 32

Discernment and knowledge to use the creative power of God WISELY.

Question 33

What Sephiroth is in the first triple light power?

Answer 33

Kether, chokmah, Binah

Question 34

What Sephiroth is in the 2nd triple light power?

Answer 34

Chesed, Geburah, Tiphereth

Question 35

What Sephiroth is in the 3rd triple light power? Lion faced light power? And what's unique about it?

Answer 35

Netzach, Hod, Yesod It's self-willed.

Question 36

Who tells Pistis Sophia to gaze into the light?

Answer 36

The Abstract Father as the First Mystery

Question 37

How many triple light powers are there?

Answer 37

3

Question 38

Which light power is deemed "self-willed"? Or " Lion faced Light power"?

Answer 38

The Third Triple Light Power

Question 39

What is the First Mystery?

Answer 39

It is another part of the being, the abstract father, commanding Sophia to look into the light.

Question 40

The Will of God is done in what triple light power?

Answer 40

2nd

Question 41

Which triple light power is disobedient?

Answer 41

3rd

Question 42

What aspects in the lion faced light power become disobedient?

Answer 42

Netzach - mind Hod - emotions Yesod - sex

Question 43

What is the "mixture"?

Answer 43

Malkuth - physical body

Question 44

Why does Sophia choose the inferior light?

Answer 44

Because does not know thyself so she sees the inferior light as the superior light.

Question 45

The entity who is half fire, half darkness.

Answer 45

Yaldabaoth

Question 46

How is Yaldabaoth created?

Answer 46

Disobidence in the 3rd triple light power.

Question 47

What are the 4 Worlds on the Tree of life?

Answer 47

1) Atziluth - Archetypes 2) Briah - Creation 3) Yetzirah - Formation 4) Assiah - Physical

Question 48

The Ain Soph Aur manifests through what 7 Mighty Cosmocreators?

Answer 48

``` GRUSOMZ Gabriel Raphael Uriel Samuel Orifiel Michael Zachariel ``` These are the 7 aspects of our own soul.

Question 49

Where do Osiris and Isis unite?

Answer 49

Daath

Question 50

Which aspect of the Atziluth Trinity performs creation?

Answer 50

Binah - by splitting itself in a duality of masculinity and femininity

Question 51

Through Binah's creation process of splitting into a duality, the coming back together is the ________?

Answer 51

Mystery of Daath which means knowledge or gnosis.

Question 52

Name the 3 brains.

Answer 52

1) intellect 2) emotion 3) motor instinctual sexual

Question 53

When a masculine Trinity unites with a feminine Trinity what occurs?

Answer 53

Creation - this is how the ray of creation manifests

Question 54

When the second triple light power is manifested the outcome is __________?

Answer 54

It becomes Horus

Question 55

What are the 7 unfoldments?

Answer 55

``` Spirit Spiritual soul Human soul Mind Emotions Vitality Physicality ```

Question 56

After being born with the physical and vital body, what bodies need to manifest next?

Answer 56

Astral Mental Casual

Question 57

In Hebrew, Yaldabaoth can be seen as three words, Yalda, Bohu, Abbott. What do these words mean?

Answer 57

Child Formless, void Father

Question 58

What is Sabaoth?

Answer 58

Army of God - Angels

Question 59

The Babaoth exist where?

Answer 59

Inside of us.

Question 60

Yaldabaoth is a mixture of what?

Answer 60

Power of Sophia | Your own ego

Question 61

Yaldabaoth is both good and evil what?

Answer 61

Karma

Question 62

Yaldabaoth is the demiurge which is?

Answer 62

A creator of the universe

Question 63

Even the 7 cosmocreaters have to fight temptation of?

Answer 63

Yaldabaoth