Question by Daevion: Has the world been fooled? Yahweh = yoldaboath?
“Yaldaboath stationed seven kings to reign over the seven heavens, and five to reign over the depths of hell. He shared his fire with them, but did not give away any of the power of the light that he had taken from his Mother. For he is a being of ignorant darkness.
When the light mixed with the darkness, it made the darkness brighter. When the darkness mixed with the light, it dimmed the light. The result was neither light nor darkness, but rather gloom.
e is wicked because of the Mindlessness that is in him. For he said,
‘I AM GOD,
AND THERE IS NO OTHER GOD BESIDES ME,’
since he did not know from where his own strength had come.
“The rulers created for themselves seven powers. The powers in turn created for themselves six angels apiece, until there were three hundred sixty-five angels.
YAldabaoth organized everything after the pattern of the first eternal realms that had come into being, for he wished to create beings that are like the Imperishable Ones. Not that he had seen the Imperishable Ones. Rather, the power that is in him, that he had taken from his Mother, produced the pattern for the world order
“When he saw creation all around, and the throng of angels around him that had come forth from him, he said to them,
‘I AM A JEALOUS GOD,
AND THERE IS NO OTHER GOD BESIDES ME.’
But by making this announcement, he suggested to the angels with him that there is another God. For if there were no other God, of whom would he be jealous?
“When the Mother realized that this dark shadow had come into being imperfectly, she understood that her lover had not collaborated with her. She repented with many tears. . . . A voice called from the exalted heavenly realm,
‘MAN EXISTS,
AND THE SON OF MAN!’
“The first ruler, Yaldaboath, heard the voice and thought that it had come from his Mother. He did not realize its source.
It was from the holy Parent,
the completely perfect Forethought,
the image of the Invisible One,
that is, the Father of everything,
through whom everything came into being,
the first Man.
“He/she taught these things, and revealed him/herself in human shape.
“The entire realm of the first ruler quaked, and the foundations of hell shook. The bottomside of the waters above the material world was lit up by the image that had appeared. When all the authorities and the first ruler stared at this appearance, they saw the whole bottomside as it was lit up. And through the light they saw the shape of the image in the water
Yaldabaothh said to the authorities with him, ‘Come, let us create a human being after the image of God and with a likeness to ourselves, so that this human image may give us light.’
“They created with their powers, and copied the features that had appeared. Each of the authorities contributed a physical feature corresponding to the figure of the image they had seen. They created a being like the first perfect Man, and said, ‘Let us call it ADAM, that its name may give us power of light.’
All the angels and demons worked together until they fashioned the physical body. But for a long time their creation did not stir or move at all. . . . They said to Yaldabaoth, ‘Breathe some of your spirit into the face of Adam, and then the body will arise.’
“He breathed his spirit into Adam. The spirit is the power of his Mother, but he did not realize this, because he lives in ignorance. Thus the Mother’s power went out of Yaldabaoth, and into the physical body that had been made to be like the One who is from the beginning.
“The body moved, and became powerful. And it was enlightened.
At once the rest of the powers became jealous. Although Adam had come into being through all of them, and they had given their power to this human, yet Adam was more intelligent than the creators and the first ruler. When they realized that Adam was enlightened, and could think more clearly than they, and was free of evil, they took and threw Adam into the lowest part of the whole material realm.
OK, this is getting way long, so I have to cut out some more. Fast-forward to Yahweh’s appearance.]
The first ruler saw the young woman standing next to Adam, and noticed that the enlightened Afterthought of life had appeared in her. Yet Yaldabaoth was full of ignorance. So when the Forethought of all realized what was happening, she dispatched emissaries, and they stole Life out of Eve.
“The first ruler raped Eve, and produced in her two sons, a first and a second: ELOHIM and YAHWEH.
Elohim has the face of a bear,
Yahweh has the face of a cat.
ONE IS JUST,
THE OTHER IS UNJUST.
He placed Yahweh over the fire and the wind,
and he placed Elohim over the water and the earth.
He called them by the names CAIN AND ABEL, for he meant to deceive.”
Next came Sophia’s ill-begotten son, Yaldabaoth, who to all appearances seems identical with the Satan

Best answer:

Answer by Bill Mac
Got a source for this wall of text?
Reads like a bunch of gibberish to me.
It appears to parallel some biblical accounts,
but the concepts are pretty far out there…

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