human
Gospel of Mary (Codex Akhmim), which was
gpt
by Irenaeus, and was therefore composed before 180 A.D., states that from the Light of the Christ and the Incorruptible proceed forth four great Lights to surround Autogênes. Their names are Harmozel, Ôroiaêl, Daveithi, and Èlêlêth. Irenaeus says,
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Charis [Grace] was conjoined with the great and first Luminary, and this they will have to be the Saviour and call him Harmogen --the Harmes-begotten. The name
gpt
Harmes appears in the present MS., and is evidently a name for Barbêlô. These things are important for the date of the Greek original. The allusions to Pistis-Sophia are probably interpolated; there seems to be no room for her adventures in the scheme of the text. But what are we to make of the mysterious
human
Baptism in the name of Barpharanges ? Does
gpt
Barpharanges (the meaning of which no one seems to know) simply = Harmogenes = the begotten from Barbêlô,
human
the Image seen in the
gpt
? If so, then we have in all probability an allusion to the Gnôstic Baptism with the Holy Spirit or Light.
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Harmogenes will be the Child of the Mystical Marriage with the Virginal Spirit by which the
gpt
Spiritual recover their true manhood, a
human
: that is to say, that the Epopt himself is mystically
gpt
Autogênes, the
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Self-begotten,
gpt
Director or
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Master to his disciple, to be used together with the MS. as part of his preparation for, what I believe to be, the
gpt
Baptism of Light.