

The Thought of Norea -- The Nag Hammadi Library

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    Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate University)

The Nag Hammadi Library

    The Thought of Norea

Translated by Søren Giversen and Birger A. Pearson

            Father of All, Ennoia of the Light, dwelling in the heights above the (regions) below,
            Light dwelling in the heights, Voice of Truth, upright Nous, untouchable Logos, and
            ineffable Voice, incomprehensible Father!

It is Norea who cries out to them. They heard, (and) they received her into her place
            forever. They gave it to her in the Father of Nous, Adamas, as well as the voice of the
            Holy Ones, in order that she might rest in the ineffable Epinoia, in order that
            <she> might inherit the first mind which <she> had received, and that
            <she> might rest in the divine Autogenes, and that she (too) might generate herself,
            just as she also has inherited the living Logos, and that she might be joined to all of
            the Imperishable Ones, and speak with the mind of the Father.

And she began to speak with the words of Life, and <she> remained in the presence
            of the Exalted One, possessing that which she had received before the world came into
            being. She has the great mind of the Invisible One, and she gives glory to <her>
            Father, and she dwells within those who [...] within the Pleroma, and she beholds the
            Pleroma.

There will be days when she will behold the Pleroma, and she will not be in deficiency,
            for she has the four holy helpers who intercede on her behalf with the Father of the All,
            Adamas. He it is who is within all of the Adams, possessing the thought of Norea, who
            speaks concerning the two names which create a single name.

    Original translation of this text was prepared by members of the

      Coptic Gnostic Library Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, Claremont Graduate School.

      The Coptic Gnostic Library Project was funded by UNESCO, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other Institutions.

      E. J. Brill has asserted copyright on texts published by the Coptic Gnostic Library Project.

      The translation presented here has been edited,  modified and formatted for use in the Gnostic Society Library.

      For academic citation, please refer to published editions of this text.

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