The Great Declaration by Simon Magus - AI Extract

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 The Nature of the Ultimate Power.

The ultimate reality is the Great and Infinite Power, the Boundless, existing without beginning or end.
It is the root of the universe, an invisible Power, the unknowable Silence.
This is the declaration of voice and name from the Thought of the Great and Infinite Power.
From the Universal Aeons spring two shoots, without beginning or end, stemming from a single Root, the invisible Power, the unknowable Silence.
The Infinite Power is often identified with fire, but not in a simplistic elemental sense.
This fire has a dual nature, both hidden and revealed.
The Infinite Power is fire, for God is a flaming and devouring fire.
This fire is not simple, as some claim, assuming the elements and fire are basic bodies.
Instead, the fire’s nature is dual, with something hidden and something revealed.
The hidden aspect contains everything intelligible, beyond sense perception, while the manifest holds everything visible.
The supercelestial fire is the treasury of all existing things.
Emanation and the First Principles.
The ultimate Power emanates two primary principles, Thought, which is female and generative, and Mind, which is male and pervasive.
These form a pair, corresponding to each other, existing within an immeasurable expanse of air, the Middle Distance.
One appears above, the Great Power, the Mind of the universe, pervading all things, male in essence.
The other appears below, Thought, magnificent, female, generating all things.
Thus, they correspond to each other and form a pair.
One shoot appears from above, the Great Power, the Universal Mind that orders all things, being male.
The other appears from below, the Great Thought, which is female and brings forth all things.
From the initial unity emerges the Father, an androgynous power containing Thought within himself.
He becomes a second deity by revealing himself.
The name Father is conferred by Thought.
The Father was one, for having her within himself, he was alone.
Though he preexisted, he is not the first.
He became a second deity when he appeared to himself from himself.
Nor was he called Father before she named him Father.
From the principle of fire, the born world took primal roots of generation, existing in pairs, Mind and Thought, Voice and Name, Reasoning and Conception, or Reason and Reflection.
These contain the Infinite Power in potentiality.
The Seventh Power, the One Who Stood, Who Stands, Who Will Stand, is crucial and existed within the Infinite Power before the aeons.
This power is the divine Spirit hovering above the waters.
She is the Seventh Power, the divine Spirit hovering above the waters.
These powers are mapped onto elements of the cosmos, Mind and Thought as Heaven and Earth, Voice and Name as Sun and Moon, Reasoning and Conception as Air and Water.
The Nature and Destiny of Humanity.
Humanity is the dwelling where the Infinite Power, the root of the universe, resides.
A human born from bloodlines is this dwelling.
The human, born from blood here below, is the Dwelling, and the Boundless Power dwells in him, as it is the Universal Root.
God forms humanity in a twofold manner, according to the image and according to the likeness.
The image is the Spirit hovering above the water.
Achieving the likeness is crucial for salvation and union with the Infinite Power.
God formed the human being by taking dust from the earth.
He formed the human not simply but in a twofold manner, according to the image and according to the likeness.
Failure to be fully formed according to the model leads to vanishing and destruction, like unused potential.
Unborn realities exist in humans in potentiality, not in actuality, like latent skills.
Encountering apt speech and instruction allows this potential to be realized.
All unborn realities exist in us in potentiality, not in actuality, like the skill of grammar or geometry.
The metaphor of a tree describes humanity.
The manifest parts, trunk and branches, are consumed by fire, but the fruit, if fully formed according to the model, is preserved.
This fruit represents those who attain the likeness and become equal to the Infinite Power.
The fruit of the tree, if fully shaped according to its model and formed in its own likeness, is stored in the storehouse, not cast into the fire.
There is a blessed and incorruptible reality hidden in every human being, in potentiality, not in actuality, which is the One Who Stood, Stands, and Will Stand.
Reinterpretation of Scripture and Myth.
The text employs an allegorical interpretation of the Old Testament.
The vineyard of the Lord Sabaoth is the house of Israel, and a person of Judah is a beloved new shoot, equating the tree with a human being.
Scripture declares that the vineyard of the Lord Sabaoth is the house of Israel, and a person of Judah is a beloved new shoot.
If a person of Judah is a beloved new shoot, it proves the tree is none other than a human being.
The creation account in Genesis is reinterpreted.
The days before the sun and moon refer to Mind, Thought, Heaven and Earth, and the Seventh Power, the Infinite.
These are the powers that arose before all others.
When scriptures mention days before the sun and moon, they hint at Mind and Thought, that is, Heaven and Earth, plus the Seventh Power, the Infinite.
The creation of humanity in Paradise is allegorically linked to the formation of the fetus in the womb.
Eden is the placenta, the river is the umbilical cord, and its branches represent the senses.
The books of Moses are linked to the development of these senses.
Paradise stands for the womb.
Scripture teaches this is true when it says, I am the one forming you in the womb of your mother.
Moses figuratively called the womb paradise, if it is right to believe the Logos.
The text incorporates elements of Greek mythology, such as Circe and the moly, to illustrate the transformative power of true knowledge.
The story of Helen and the Trojan War is reinterpreted as a conflict among the Powers over Thought residing in a human form.
Only the one who tasted this fruit was not transformed into a beast by Circe.
Thought is the lost sheep of the parable, and Mind seeks her out.
This Thought took up residence in Helen, and because all the Powers laid claim to her, schism and war erupted.
Generation and Transformation.
The source of generation is fire, and the desire for generation, burning, stems from it.
The source of generation for those who are born comes from fire.
For all those destined for generation, the desire for generation stems from fire.
Thus, the desire for changeable generation is called burning.
The turning of blood into semen in males and milk in females is linked to the dual nature of fire and represents generation and nourishment.
The flaming sword guarding the tree of life is the Seventh Power, and its turning is necessary for the good tree, humanity, to flourish.
In the male, the blood turns into semen.
In the woman, the same blood turns into milk.
Thus, the turning in the male becomes generation, while in the female, it becomes nourishment for the offspring.
This is the meaning of the flaming sword that turns to guard the way to the tree of life.
Those in potentiality are subject to suffering, but those formed according to the likeness are passionless from birth and move beyond Heaven and Earth, the first two powers.
The Role of Thought (Sophia).
The female Thought, as she manifested in the realm of becoming, was subjected to and defiled by the Angels and lower Powers who created the material world.
They used her fiery power to animate their creations.
Thought is likened to the lost sheep in the parable, sought by Mind, the male principle.
Thought passes through various female forms, sowing discord among the Powers due to her extraordinary beauty, mirroring the events of the Trojan War, where she resided in Helen.
Primordial State.
The universe originates from a single, invisible, and incomprehensible Power called Silence.
This Root is without beginning or end.
From this Root arise two fundamental offshoots or powers, also without beginning or end.
The Great Power, Mind, appears from above, male, the Mind of the universe, pervading and ordering all things.
The Great Thought appears from below, female, magnificent, and generating all things.
Between Mind and Thought exists an immeasurable expanse of air, without beginning or end.
Within this air resides the Father, who sustains and nourishes all beings with a beginning and end.
This Father is the One Who Stood, Stands, and Will Stand, an androgynous power existing in unity with the infinite preexisting Power.
The Thought within the unity of the Father emerges and becomes distinct from him.
He becomes a second deity when he appears to himself, and is named Father by Thought.
Power, associated with the Father, discovered from above, and Thought, discovered from below, are inherently linked and form a unity, even as they appear as two.
Mind resides within Thought, and the androgynous contains the female within itself.
Cosmogenesis and the Seven Powers.
Mind and Thought constitute the first pair of primal roots of generation, also identified as Heaven, male Mind above, and Earth, female Thought below.
Following Mind and Thought emerges the Seventh Power, the One Who Stood, Stands, and Will Stand.
This power is the cause of all good things and is associated with the Logos.
From the initial Fire, the Boundless Power, arise primal roots in pairs, Mind and Thought, Heaven and Earth, Voice and Name, Sun and Moon, Reasoning and Conception, Air and Water.
The entire Infinite Power resides within these roots, but initially only in potentiality.
The scriptural account of God creating heaven and earth and resting is interpreted allegorically, with the days before the sun and moon representing Mind, Thought, Heaven and Earth, and the Seventh Power, the Infinite.
The Seventh Power is also identified with the Spirit that hovered above the waters, containing everything as an image of the Infinite Power.
This Spirit is born from an incorruptible form and orders everything.
The Creation of Humanity.
God forms humanity from dust in a twofold manner, according to the image and according to the likeness.
The image is the Spirit hovering above the water.
To achieve the likeness, the potential within must be actualized.
If not, it will perish with the world.
If formed according to the likeness from an undivided point, the small will become great and attain infinite eternity.
The biblical Paradise is allegorically interpreted as the womb, Eden as the placenta, and the river flowing from Eden as the umbilical cord.
The branches of the river symbolize the senses of the fetus, vision, hearing, smell, and taste.
Each of the books of Moses is linked to these senses and the development of the individual.
Genesis signifies vision, knowledge of the universe.
Exodus represents crossing the Red Sea and wilderness, the bitter path of knowledge, becoming sweet through the Logos.
Leviticus concerns smell and respiration, sacrifices and offerings.
Numbers refers to taste, the spoken word.
Deuteronomy signifies touch, summarizing and confirming the other senses.
The Goal of Spiritual Development.
All unborn realities exist within humans in potentiality.
Through apt speech and instruction, this potential can be realized, transforming the bitter into sweet.
The ultimate goal is to be fully formed according to the model, becoming equal and like the unborn and infinite Power, moving beyond the perishable chaff to become the enduring fruit.
A blessed and incorruptible reality exists in potential within every human being, representing this eternal principle.
There are standing aeons, connected to the Unborn One and the one hovering upon the waters, formed in the likeness.
The ultimate power is one, divided above and below, continuously generating and seeking itself, encompassing all familial relationships yet remaining one as the root of the universe.
Generation and the Fire.
The desire for generation originates from the fire, with the desire for changeable generation called burning.
The fire transforms blood into semen in the male and milk in the female, representing generation and nourishment.
The flaming sword guarding the tree of life is the Seventh Power, containing everything within the powers.
If the fire transforms into semen and milk, representing spiritual growth and nurturing, the potential within will grow into an infinite and unchanging power.
The Myth of Thought (Helen).
The female Thought, as she manifested in the realm of becoming, was subjected to and defiled by the Angels and lower Powers who created the material world.
They used her fiery power to animate their creations.
Thought is likened to the lost sheep in the parable, sought out by Mind.
She passes through various female forms, sowing discord among the Powers due to her extraordinary beauty, mirroring the events of the Trojan War, where she resided in Helen.
The Trojan War erupted because various Powers lusted after Helen, representing Thought.
It was not Helen’s fault but the covetous Powers.
The poet Stesichorus was blinded for speaking ill of Helen but regained his sight after writing favorably about her.
After her body was exchanged, Thought appeared as an infant in Tyre, raised in a brothel, symbolizing her degradation in the material world.
Mind, her yoke-mate, entered the realm of her captors by appearing as a human, mirroring the Achaean’s entry into Troy via the Trojan Horse.

Cast of Characters.
The Great and Infinite Power (Silence): The ultimate origin of all existence, a single, invisible, incomprehensible Power without beginning or end, the Universal Root.
The Great Power (Mind): The first emanation from the Root, appearing from above, male, the Mind of the universe, responsible for pervading and ordering all things.
The Great Thought: The second emanation from the Root, appearing from below, female, magnificent, the generative force behind all things.
The Father (The One Who Stood, Stands, Will Stand): An androgynous power in the middle distance between Mind and Thought, sustaining and nourishing beings with a beginning and end, a manifestation of the Infinite Power.
The Seventh Power (The Standing One/Logos/Divine Spirit): The power arising after Mind and Thought, the cause of all good things, associated with the spoken word of the Lord, the Spirit hovering above the waters, ordering creation, identified with the flaming sword guarding the tree of life.
God: Often used interchangeably with the Great and Infinite Power or its manifestations, described as a flaming and devouring fire with a dual nature, hidden and revealed.
Moses: Represents the Logos or divine instruction, transforming the bitter waters of the wilderness into sweet, the lawgiver whose teachings are allegorically interpreted in the context of human development in the womb, Paradise.
Nebuchadnezzar: A biblical king whose dream of a massive tree is an analogy for the supercelestial fire that nourishes all existing things.
Empedocles: A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher whose saying about perceiving elements by their like illustrates that all invisible parts of the fire possess intelligence.
Lord Sabaoth: A divine title used in scripture regarding the vineyard of the Lord being the house of Israel.
A Person of Judah: Represents a beloved new shoot, illustrating that a tree in scripture refers to a human being.
The Unborn Power: The primordial, infinite, and unchanging divine source.
The Human Being: The dwelling place where the Infinite Power, the root of the universe, resides, formed in the image and likeness of God, with potential to become one with the Unborn Power.
The Child/Fetus: A microcosm explaining the development of potentiality and the allegory of Paradise, the womb, and the senses.
Circe: A mythical sorceress who transforms men into beasts, her story illustrating the power of the milky and divine fruit, knowledge, to resist transformations and restore individuals.
Stesichorus: A poet punished with blindness for speaking ill of Helen, restored to sight after praising her.
Helen: Represents the female Thought manifesting in the world, causing conflict among the Powers due to her beauty, exemplified by the Trojan War.
Zeus, Skamander, Apollo, Memnon: Figures from the Trojan War, mentioned in the context of the cosmic battle between the Powers vying for Helen, Thought.
The Angels and Lower Powers