1 She became the universal womb because she is the one who exists before all of them, the Mother-Father, the Primal Man, the holy Spirit, the triple-male, the triple-powerful, the triple-named androgynous one, and the eternal aeon among the unseen ones, even the first one to issue forth. (APJ) 2 ‹She› entreated the unseen, virginal Spirit — that is, Barbelo — to grant her Precognition, and the Spirit agreed, (APJ) 3 and when he had [agreed], Precognition approached, and attended Providence, she who originates from the Idea of the unseen, virginal Spirit. (APJ)
Apocryphon of John 5:1–3
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