The Naassene Psalm
"The Law of Universal Genesis was the firstbortn nous; the second
Chaos shed by the firstborn. The third was received by the soul.....[]
Clad in the shape of a hind she is worn away with death´s slavery,
Now she has mastery and glimpses light: now she is plunged in misery and
weeps. Now she is mourned, and her self rejoices. Now she weeps and is
finally condemned. Now she is condemned and finally dies. And now she reaches
the point where hemmed in by evil, she knows no way out. Misled, she has
entered a labyrinth. Then Jesus said " Behold, Father, she wanders the
earth pursued by evil. Far from thy Breath she is going astray. She is
trying to flee bitter Chaos, and does not know how she is to escape. Send
me forth, o Father, therefore, and I, bearing the seal shall descend and
wander all Aeons through, all mysteries reveal. I shall manifest the forms
of the gods and teach them the secrets of the holy way which i call Gnosis.....[]"
This is an excerpt Hippolytus quoted the "phrygians"/ naassenes in his
refutations,
this "sect" existed under the reign of Hadrian (110a.d-140a.d).
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