“The Father loved and admired the Son, and the Son loved and admired the Father. These two were well pleased with themselves, and they gave praise and glory to one another.”

The idea of combining with another to produce offspring comes from this first exchange of praise and glory between the Father and Son, and carries on throughout all subsequent generations.  I hesitate to call it “sex,” but “conception” works because we understand the word “conceiving” to mean either having a thought or making a baby.

“And yet, although He began as the singular manifestation of the Father, the moment the Son was formed, He was no longer alone. For not only the Son, but the ALL arose at once.

“The ALL immediately appeared as the offspring of the Son, because the Son could not help himself from bringing others into existence, even as He himself was brought into existence by the Father. The Son and the Father are One, and the Father’s creative spirit flows through the Son.

“With the birth of the ALL, the Son became a Father.  The ALL is called the Second Glory, the Joy of the Lord, and the Pre-existent Church… ” (from The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated)

The ALL emerges from kisses exchanged between the Father and Son
The ALL conceives of itself and names itself, giving rise to the emanations of the Aeons of the Fullness of God
The aeons sort themselves into a hierarchy of names, stations, ranks, and duties, known as the Fullness of God
This diagram shows where we stand in the Final Economy

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