Marsanes (Arkhontic, according to Epiphanios)
Nag Hammadi codices, 10
cf. Codex Brucianus, chapter 7
(pp. 634-636) 2-4. the 13 sigils
(p. 634) |
2. |
1st |
worldly |
2. |
2nd |
material |
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2. |
3rd |
perceptible |
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(p. 635) |
2. |
4th |
incorporeal |
3:1-14 |
5th |
repentance : the sojourners |
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3:18-25 |
6th |
the abiders in the truth of the All, with understanding & stability |
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3:25-4:2 |
7th |
Auto-genes (‘self-generated’) power = the 3rd Mind |
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4:2-7 |
8th |
mind-substance |
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4:7-10 |
9th |
name of the power [: Proto-phanes (’first-appearing’)] |
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4:10-12 |
10th |
Barbelo = aion |
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(p. 636) |
4. |
11th |
Invisible one = Triple-Powered one |
4. |
12th |
Insubstantial Spirit [= Invisible Spirit (fn. 22)] |
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4:19-24 |
13th |
Silent one, who is the foundation of the Indistinguishable one |
(pp. 641-642) 21:1-25:21 zodiacal signs : beastly angels and their voices
(p. 641) 21. |
"[... the] soul [that has] ... [corporeality], namely, the celestial soul [that sur]rounds [the world]" (fn. 85) |
22. |
"forms [become] configurations, ... [like the voices] of animals" |
(p. 642) 25. |
zodiacal signs’ "powers, which are the angels, are in the form of beasts and animals." |
"But these that are [homo]phonic by a third originated from substance." {consubstantial angels?} ["Homophony and the interval of the third suggest ... the harmony of the spheres" (fn. 92).] |
(pp. 642-644) 25:21-30:2 the alphabet and the 5 configurations of the soul [arranged concentrically – p. 643, fn. 100]
(p. 642) |
25-26. |
1st |
circle (fn. 94) |
AEEIOUO |
(i.e., all the vowels) |
26:1-17 |
2nd |
sphaere |
EEIOU |
diphthongs (p. 643, fn. 112) |
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(p. 643) |
27:26-29:2 |
3rd |
sphaere |
AEEOO |
"simple vowels" |
(p. 644) |
29. |
4th |
sphere |
? |
? |
29. |
5th |
[limit] |
? |
? |
{the names of the musical notes are vowels : emitted by the planets in the caelestial diapason (Pythagorean)}
(p. 643) 26:27-27:26 classes of consonants
class of consonants |
its members |
voiced / semivowel |
(fn. 100) Z, KS, PS, L, M, N, R, S |
voiceless / mute |
(fn. 101) B, G, D, K P, T, Th, Ph, Kh |
double |
(fn. 102) Z [=DJ], KS, PS |
changeless |
(fn. 103) L, M, N, R |
{the constellations are consonants (in both <ibri^ & Chinese occultisms -- as figurated in, e.g., Hugh Moran : The Alphabet and the Ancient Calendar Signs.)}
(pp. 644-645) 30:3-32:5 consonant-vowel combinations
(p. 644) 30. |
"And sometimes consonants exist with vowels, and by turns they are prepended and appended. They constitute a nomenclature [for] angels. And sometimes the consonants ... are prefixed and suffixed to the hidden gods. [" "Hidden gods" may here designate ... unrepresented elements of speech." (fn. 122)] |
By means of beat and pitch ... [they] summon the semivowels, all of which are subjected". {beat & pitch are musical : used in shamanism to summon helping-spirits (are the semi-vowels helping-spirits?)} |
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(p. 645) 32. |
"you might [assemble] them and become separate from the angels." |
{consonant + vowel signs were used in the cuneiform Persian syllabary} {/Marsanes/ would appear to be a Persian-based name (/Meres/ : /Maraphioi/ (of Herodotos)}
(p. 645) 32:5-33:9 arithmology
numeric set |
its nature |
Spiro^t of the Qabbalah |
Monad |
principle |
{"when thine eye is single ..." (Euangelion of Loukas 11:34) : [in the Manda< system,] <aina ‘eye’ is matched with sindirka ‘dates’} |
Dyad |
division |
1st Keter (cf. [<ar.] katr ‘wall of a place, where dates are dried’ -- LA-L 4:8) |
[omitted {to denote "cannot change"?}] |
[omitted {should be : "difference"} |
2nd H.akmah ‘Wisdom’ [the wisdom to know the difference] |
Tetrad |
[elements] |
3rd |
Pentad |
concord |
4th |
Hexad |
perfection |
5th |
Hebdomad |
beauty |
6th Tip>eret ‘Beauty’ |
Octad |
harmony |
7th Nes.ah. (cf. /nas.ah./ "chief musician" – Strong’s 5329) |
Ennead |
honor |
8th Ho^d ("honour" – Strong’s 1935) |
Decad |
entirety |
9th Yso^d (cf. /so^d/ "assembly" – Strong’s 5475) |
Hendecad etc. |
[boundless] |
10th Malkut ‘kingdom’ (cf. "That ... there be no end ... upon his kingdom" – YS^<YH 9:6) |
LA-L = Lexicon Arabico-Latinum. Beirut, 1975.
Strong’s = Complete Dictionary of Bible Words.
(pp. 645-646) 33:10-39:17 etymology
(p. 645) 33:10-35:20 syllables : "wax images, and some emerald images." |
[wax images of Hekate (fn. 140), who was 3-headed (CDCM)] emerald tablet of Trismegistos ‘thrice greatest’, who is addressed in the Discourse on the 8th and 9th 59 (p. 417) |
(p. 646) 35:21-39:17 "words ... were pronounced openly. They did not stop being revealed, nor did they stop naming the angels." |
cf. "single Name" in Tripartite Tractate 66-67 (p. 69) |
{this concern for etymology may be Dosithean (i.e., S^amaritan Gnostic), for there was a early Byzantine grammarian named Dositheus; if it be not of Hispanic derivation, as with the later etymologian Isidorus}
astrology
(p. 647) 42. "the seven planets or the twelve signs of the zodiac or the thirty-[six] decans" |
ages, years, seasons, months, days, hours, moments (Tripartite Tractate 73 – p. 72) |
angelic Gamaliel
(p. 648) 64. "Gamaliel, who presides over" "fearsome angels" |
cf. "angel Gamaliel" in the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit 57 (p. 262) |
{these "fearsome" ones of Gamal (‘deserving’, as is a camel) contrast with the "fear not", said by S`akar (‘hire’, "reward") in B-R>S^YT 15:1 [the latter being apotheosis of the "hireling priests" so muchly castigated by Quakers & by Mormons, and is that of shepherd [abusive] to long-suffering sheep (as in YS^<YH 40:10-11)]}
The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, ed. by Marvin Meyer. HarperOne, NY, 2007. pp. 629-649.