I Am The One Who

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you. ~ Thomas' Gospel

“I was sent forth from the (Christic) power (the Solar Logos), and I have come to those who reflect upon me (in meditation), and I have been found among those who seek after me…

Do not be ignorant of me (do not sleep; awaken your consciousness, and seek to know me through knowing yourself: that is Gnosis).
For (as Christic Substance) I am the first (in Daath, Tantric Knowledge) and the last (in Yesod).
I am the honored one (of the chaste ones) and the scorned one (of the fornicators).
I am the whore and the holy one (because I tempt the fools and guide the wise ones).
I am the wife and the virgin (because I am your companion on the Path)…

I am the midwife (of the Son of Man) and she who does not bear (but the Son of God).
I am the solace of my labor pains (because I clean the impurities of my labors).
I am (within) the bride and the bridegroom, and it is my husband (the Holy Spirit) who begot me…

I am the voice (verb) whose sound is manifold (because I am the uterus of Daath) and the word (verb) whose appearance is multiple (because the Logos, the verb, is Tri-une: the Solar Logos of Kether, Chokmah and Binah is born through me).
I am the utterance of my name (pronounced in Daath).
Why, you (fornicators) who hate me, do you love me (the feminine force, through fornication and lust), and hate those (Initiates) who love me (with chastity)?
You who deny me (as lust) confess me (as chastity), who confess me (as chastity), deny me (as lust)…
I am war (against the ego) and peace (of serenity, Samadhi).
But I, I am compassionate (towards the consciousness) and I am cruel (towards the ego).
Be on your guard!  (Awaken your consciousness)
Do not hate my obedience (to the Law, the Christ) and do not love my self-control…

For I shall be silent among those who are silent (meditating upon the Void)…

I am she who does not keep festival (because I am beyond mere ritual and symbol), and I am she whose festivals are many (because it is my knowledge which has given you ritual and symbol).
I, I am godless (beyond all form), and I am the one whose God is great (Absolute Emptiness, the Void)…

I am the one whom you have hidden from (when you absorb yourself in pleasures of sensation)…

And come forward to me, you who know (Daath) me (initiates who work in Daath, Tantric Knowledge) and you who know my members (all my aspects, which you realize through meditation), and establish the great ones (Initiates) among the small first creatures (through your works in the first steps of Initiation, upon which you can rise to spiritual greatness).
Come forward to childhood (Mastery), and do not despise it because it is small and it is little…

And do not turn away (spiritual) greatnesses (virtue) in the smallnesses (acts of service to humanity, done in humility), for the smallnesses (acts of humility) are known from the greatnesses (pure virtues)…

I know the first ones (who have achieved in-depth Realization) and those after them (their students come to) know me (through Daath, Tantric knowledge).
I am the knowledge (Daath) of my inquiry (into spiritual understanding), and the finding (of Wisdom) of those who seek after me (the Solar Logos), and the command (Kingship) of those who ask of me, and the power of the powers in my knowledge (Daath) of the angels (Self-realized masters), who have been sent at my word (Christ), and of Gods (Buddhas) in their seasons (manvantaras) by my counsel (wisdom), and of spirits (Chesed) of every man (Manas, Tiphereth) who exists with me, and of women (Geburah, the Divine Soul) who dwell within me.

I am the one who is honored (through sanctity, chastity and service), and who is praised, and who is despised scornfully (by materialistic humanity, by fornicators, by spiritual tyrants).
I am peace (Samadhi), and war has come because of me (because Light make war against the ego).
I am the substance (which gives rise to all matter) and the one who has no substance (Prakriti, the womb of nature)…

I, I am sinless (without blemish), and the root of sin derives from me (because I am the force of creation, whether that is used to create in heaven or in hell).
I am lust in (outward) appearance (because I am the raw power within all things), and interior self-control exists within me (I am the root of all virtue).
I am the hearing (knowledge, Daath) which is attainable to everyone and the speech (verb, Christ) which cannot be grasped (by the mind).
I am a mute who does not speak (the Void), and great is my multitude of words (the Verb which manifests in every bodhisattva).
Hear me in gentleness (humility), and learn of me in roughness (willpower).

I am she who cries out (because I love all creatures), and I am cast forth upon the face of the earth (to give life to all things)…
For what is inside of you is what is outside of you, (as above so below) and the one who fashions you on the outside (your body, made by the power of the Holy Spirit through sexual conception) is the one who shaped the inside of you (the soul, also formed by the sexual power of the Holy Spirit).
And what you see outside of you, you see inside of you; (For man is the reflection of the universe) it is visible and it is your garment.
Hear me, you hearers (you who have develop the Vishuddha Chakra through Initiation) and learn of my words, you who know me (through Daath, Tantric knowledge)…

Look then at his words (those who have incarnated the Verb; that is the Bodhisattvas) and all the (sacred) writings which have been completed.
Give heed then, you hearers (Initiates) and you also, the angels (Self-realized Masters) and those who have been sent (messengers of God), and you spirits (Chesed) who have arisen from the dead (who have resurrected in Christ).
For I am the one who alone exists (I am nature, the Divine Mother), and I have no one who will judge me (for I am existence itself).
For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins, and incontinencies, and disgraceful passions, and fleeting pleasures, which (sinful souls) embrace until they become sober (through the second death) and go up to their resting place.
And they will find me there, and they will live, and they will not die again.”

~ Thunder Perfect Mind. Translation from James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library, revised edition. HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1990

"One of the most quoted texts from the collection discovered at Nag Hammadi, “Thunder, Perfect Mind” is perhaps the least understood one. The author presents a scripture founded upon a deep knowledge of the two trees from the Garden of Eden: the Tree of Life, which is the science of Kabbalah, and the Tree of Knowledge, which is Daath or Gnosis, the science of Alchemy.  Those who have studied this document without such sciences at hand have been left confused.  But when illuminated with the wisdom of these two fundamental sciences, this text is revealed as a truly precious and vital teaching.

“Thunder, Perfect Mind” contradicts much of the modern, established religious theories and beliefs of Christianity and Judaism.  This document emphasizes a divine power that is not only feminine, but it (she) contradicts a whole host of theological dogmas.  The view of this text is completely Gnostic: divinity cannot be reduced to belief or theory, it must be experienced to be understood...

The paradoxes presented in “Thunder, Perfect Mind” point directly to the mechanical dualism we are trapped within so long as the consciousness remains asleep.  Dogmas, ideas and theories do not provide a fundamental basis for real change: only experience does.  Real understanding can only be acquired when we experience the truth of what is beyond the physical senses, and that experience comes when we awaken the consciousness.

The complete understanding of this document is therefore a matter of conscious experience.  To reach such an experience is possible for any person, provided they learn the exact sciences of the two Trees: Kabbalah and Alchemy.  Inherent in both of these sciences is the necessity of working with our own consciousness in a direct and active manner, from moment to moment.  After all, these Trees share the same roots: the divinity that waits within each one of us."
~ Glorian Publishing, GnosticTeachings.org