“In the Ophite system, Sophia, the Androgyne Wisdom, is also the female spirit, or the Hindi female Nari, (Narayana), moving on the face of the waters – chaos, or future matter. She vivifies it from afar, but not touching the abyss of darkness. She is unable to do so, for Wisdom is purely intellectual, and cannot act directly on matter.
Therefore, Sophia is obliged to address herself to her Supreme Parent; but although life proceeds primarily from the Unseen Cause, and his Ennoia, neither of them can, any more than herself, have anything to do with the lower chaos in which matter assumes its definite shape. Thus, Sophia is obliged to employ on the task her imperfect emanation, Sophia-Achamoth, the latter being of a mixed nature, half spiritual and half material.
The only difference between the Ophite cosmogony and that of the St. John Nazarenes is a change of names. We find equally an identical system in the Kabala, the Book of Mystery, (Liber Mysterii). All three systems, especially that of the kabalists and the Nazarenes, which were the models for the Ophite Cosmogony, belong to the pure Oriental Gnosticism.
The Codex Nazaraeus opens with: “The Supreme King of Light, Mano, the great first one”, etc., the latter being the emanation of Ferho – the unknown, formless LIFE. He is the chief of the Aeons, from whom proceed, (or shoot forth), five refulgent rays of Divine Light. Mano is Rex Lucis, the Bythos-Ennoia of the Ophites. “Unus est Rex Lucis in suo regno, nec ullus qui eo altior, nullus qui ejus similitudinem retulerit, nullus qui sublatis oculis, viderit Coronam quae in ejus capite est.”
He is the Manifested Light around the highest of the three kabalistic heads, the concealed wisdom; from him emanate the three Lives. Aebel Zivo is the revealed Logos, Christos the “Apostle Gabriel”, and the first Legate or messenger of light. If Bythos and Ennoia are the Nazarene Mano, then the dual-natured, the semi-spiritual, semi-material Achamoth must be Fetahil when viewed from her spiritual aspect; and if regarded in her grosser nature, she is the Nazarene “Spiritus”.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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