The Hidden Thread: Sophia Fell — Spenta Armaiti Didn't
How the Gnostics Took a Zoroastrian Goddess and Broke Her The Hidden Thread — Part 3 of 5 In the second century of the Common Era, in the intellectual furnace of Alexandria and Antioch and Rome, a group of Christian mystics told a story that would haunt Western spirituality for two thousand years. They called themselves Gnostics — "those who know." And the story they told was about a goddess named Sophia . Sophia, they said, was the youngest and lowest of the divine emanations — the Aeons — that radiated from the unknowable God.
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How the Gnostics Took a Zoroastrian Goddess and Broke Her The Hidden Thread — Part 3 of 5 In the second century of the Common Era, in the intellectual furnace of Alexandria and Antioch and Rome, a group of Christian mystics told a story that would haunt Western spirituality for two thousand years. They called themselves Gnostics — "those who know." And the story they told was about a goddess named Sophia . Sophia, they said, was the youngest and lowest of the divine emanations — the Aeons — that radiated from the unknowable God. She lived in the Pleroma, the "Fullness" of the divine realm, surrounded by paired beings of light. But Sophia wanted more. She wanted to know the unknowable Father directly. She wanted to create without her male consort. She wanted to reach beyond the boundary. And so she fell.
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Yasna · Gathas · Avesta
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Mary Boyce