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![page 54 of the gnostic gospels by elaine pagels.
THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS
"wisdom," sopia, translates a Hebrew feminine term, bokmah.
Early interpreters had pondered the meaning of certain Biblical passages-for example, the saying in Proverbs that "God the world in Wisdom." Could Wisdom be the feminine made in which God's creation was "conceived"?
power
According to one
teacher, the double meaning of the term conception-physical and intellectual suggests this possibility: "The image of thought enoial is feminine, since ... [it] is a power of conception."27 The Apocalypse of Adam, discovered at Nag Hammadi, tells of a feminine power who wanted to conceive by herself:
... from the nine Muses, one separated away. She came to a high mountain and spent time seated there, so that she desired herself alone in order to become androgynous. She fulfilled her desire, and became pregnant from her desire...28
The poet Valentinus uses this theme to tell a famous myth about Wisdom: Desiring to conceive by herself,
apart from her
masculine counterpart, she succeeded,
and became the "great
creative power from whom all things originate," often called
Eve,
"Mother of all living." But since her desire violated the harmonious union of opposites intrinsic in the nature of created being, what she produced was aborted and defective; from this, says Valentinus, originated the terror and grief that mar human existence.? To shape and manage her creation, Wisdom brought forth the demiurge, the creator-God of Israel.
as her agent."
Wisdom, then, bears several connotations in gnostic sources.
Besides being the "first universal creator,"32 who brings forth all creatures, she also enlightens human beings and makes them wise.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:otfomsqjn4qfvqvopdd6sagm/bafkreibiup2cy5gykh43o5mdiczm2tuw4fjh4l4dn24con6aqcebqtrhfu)
