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

 

2.

3rd

perceptible

(p. 635)

2.

4th

incorporeal

 

3:1-14

5th

repentance : the sojourners

 

3:18-25

6th

the abiders in the truth of the All, with understanding & stability

 

3:25-4:2

7th

Auto-genes (‘self-generated’) power = the 3rd Mind

 

4:2-7

8th

mind-substance

 

4:7-10

9th

name of the power [: Proto-phanes (’first-appearing’)]

 

4:10-12

10th

Barbelo = aion

(p. 636)

4.

11th

Invisible one = Triple-Powered one

 

4.

12th

Insubstantial Spirit [= Invisible Spirit (fn. 22)]

 

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)

(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?)}

(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.