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Pistis Sophia And Yaldabaoth Lecture Flashcards

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What is the Pistis Sophia literally?

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

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Who is Aberamentho in the Pistis Sophia?

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Jesus Christ

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When was this series of books date of origin?

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11 years after Jesus’s Resurrection

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

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

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What does Elohim mean?

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Gods and Godesses

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What does Aelohim mean?

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Not God or Beyond God.

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

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What is the Absolute?

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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

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When is God present in an individual?

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When one has a Perfected Soul.

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Why do the Universe and its Gods exist?

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Because of Karma.

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What is the Mahamanvantara and Mahapralaya?

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The Great Cosmic Day and the Great Cosmic Night

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What are Paramarthasattyas?

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Beings with perfect consciousnesses.

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

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

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Mahamanvantara or The Great Cosmic Day.

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What are the 3 Aspects of the Absolute?

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  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
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14
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What does “Pistis” and “Sophia” mean in one word?

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Mind-power and wisdom

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15
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Pistis relates to which side of the tree of life? Vice versa Sophia?

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Pistis (Power) - Left

Sophia (Wisedom) - Right

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Which Sephiroth is the kingdom of the physical body?

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Malkuth 1st Aeon

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

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Yesod 2nd Aeon

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What bodies are we born with?

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Physical and Vital

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What is a vital body? Or Ethereal Body?

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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

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20
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Which Sephiroth is related to the Astral Body - the center of emotions?

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Hod- 3rd Aeon

This can be acquired by working with our sexual energies

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

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Netzach- 4th Aeon

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22
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Which Sephiroth is the center of the human soul (masculine)?

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Tiphereth 5th Aeon (masculine)

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Which Sephiroth obtains a leading majority of work?

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Tiphereth because it is related to the human soul.

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

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Geburah 6th Aeon

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What Sephiroth is related to the inner Spirit?

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Chesed 7th Aeon

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26
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Which Sephiroth is related to the Holy Spirit?

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Binah 8th Aeon

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

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Chokmah 9th Aeon

28
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Which Sephiroth is related to the father, spirit of the Spirit?

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Kether 10th Aeon

29
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All of the characters and personages in the Pistis Sophia are related to what?

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Parts of ourselves

30
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What is formed when all of the Sephiroth unite and form perfectly?

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Diamond Soul

31
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Arcanum 24: the weaver represents what?

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

32
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Reducing Arcanum 24 by adding 2+4=6; Arcanum 6 represents Indecision meaning what?

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

33
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What Sephiroth is in the first triple light power?

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Kether, chokmah, Binah

34
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What Sephiroth is in the 2nd triple light power?

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Chesed, Geburah, Tiphereth

35
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What Sephiroth is in the 3rd triple light power? Lion faced light power? And what’s unique about it?

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Netzach, Hod, Yesod

It’s self-willed.

36
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Who tells Pistis Sophia to gaze into the light?

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The Abstract Father as the First Mystery

37
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How many triple light powers are there?

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3

38
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Which light power is deemed “self-willed”? Or “ Lion faced Light power”?

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The Third Triple Light Power

39
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What is the First Mystery?

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

40
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The Will of God is done in what triple light power?

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2nd

41
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Which triple light power is disobedient?

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3rd

42
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What aspects in the lion faced light power become disobedient?

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Netzach - mind
Hod - emotions
Yesod - sex

43
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What is the “mixture”?

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Malkuth - physical body

44
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Why does Sophia choose the inferior light?

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

45
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The entity who is half fire, half darkness.

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Yaldabaoth

46
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How is Yaldabaoth created?

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Disobidence in the 3rd triple light power.

47
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What are the 4 Worlds on the Tree of life?

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

48
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The Ain Soph Aur manifests through what 7 Mighty Cosmocreators?

A 
GRUSOMZ
Gabriel
Raphael
Uriel
Samuel
Orifiel
Michael
Zachariel

These are the 7 aspects of our own soul.

49
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Where do Osiris and Isis unite?

A

Daath

50
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Which aspect of the Atziluth Trinity performs creation?

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

51
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Through Binah’s creation process of splitting into a duality, the coming back together is the ________?

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Mystery of Daath which means knowledge or gnosis.

52
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Name the 3 brains.

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1) intellect
2) emotion
3) motor instinctual sexual

53
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When a masculine Trinity unites with a feminine Trinity what occurs?

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Creation - this is how the ray of creation manifests

54
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When the second triple light power is manifested the outcome is __________?

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It becomes Horus

55
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What are the 7 unfoldments?

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Spirit
Spiritual soul
Human soul
Mind
Emotions
Vitality
Physicality
56
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After being born with the physical and vital body, what bodies need to manifest next?

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Astral
Mental
Casual

57
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In Hebrew, Yaldabaoth can be seen as three words, Yalda, Bohu, Abbott. What do these words mean?

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Child
Formless, void
Father

58
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What is Sabaoth?

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Army of God - Angels

59
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The Babaoth exist where?

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Inside of us.

60
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Yaldabaoth is a mixture of what?

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Power of Sophia

Your own ego

61
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Yaldabaoth is both good and evil what?

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Karma

62
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Yaldabaoth is the demiurge which is?

A

A creator of the universe

63
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Even the 7 cosmocreaters have to fight temptation of?

A

Yaldabaoth

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