The Nag Hammadi

Matter did not come from chaos but it was chaos that was existing in a part of it!

Since she (Sophia) is the only Aeon that can self reflect and because she wanted to learn more about Source through her creation. She decided to create without her consort because she was ignorant. Pistis (The Aeon Sophia) came and appeared over the matter of chaos which was cast off like an aborted fetus since there was no spirit in it. For all of that is a boundless darkness and water of enfathomable depth and when Pistis saw what had come from her deficiency she was disturbed...and the disturbance appeared as something frightful and it fled to her in the chaos. She returned to it and breathed into its face in the abyss which is beneath all of Heaven.


Now when Pistis Sophia wanted to cause a thing that had no spirit to be formed into a likeness and rule over matter and all its powers, a ruler first appeared out of the cosmic waters, lion like in appearance, with a snakes body and fiery flashing lightning eyes, androgynous with great authority within itself but ignorant of whence he came into being. When Pistis Sophia saw him move around in the depth of the water she said to him "Youth pass over here" which is interpreted as Yaldaboath. Since that day the first principle of the word that referred to the Gods and angels has people as appeared and the Gods and people had constitute that which came into being by means of the word. More ever the ruler Yaldaboath is ignorant of the power of Pistis. He did not see her face but saw in the water the likeness that spoke to him, and from the voice he called himself Yaldaboath but the perfect ones (The Aeons in the Void) called him Ariel because he was like a lion and after he came to possess authority over matter, Pistis Sophia withdrew up to her light. She would later repent for her half creation for she had created him in ignorance!

When the ruler saw his greatness he saw only himself, he saw nothing else except water and darkness, then he thought he alone existed. His thought was made complete by means of the word and it appeared as a spirit running to a fro over the waters, and when the spirit appeared the ruler separated the watery substance to one region and the dry substance to another region. From matter he created a dwelling place for himself and called it Heaven and from matter the ruler created a footstool for himself and called it Earth. Afterward the ruler thought according to his nature and created an androgynous being by means of the word. He opened his mouth and coo'ed to him. when his eyes were opened he saw his Father and said to him E, so his father called him Eiou (Yao) again he created a second son and coo'ed to him, he opened his eyes and said to his father Ehh so his father called him Eloai. Again he created a third son and coo'ed to him. He opened his eyes and said to his father Az, so his father called him Astathios. These are the three sons of they're father.