The purpose of this series of podcasts is to share with you the gnosis that I have gleaned from my readings of the Nag Hammadi manuscripts. These podcasts are coming in the order as the cosmology of our universe unfolds, and I think it's a lot easier for you to understand the material if you follow along in order. The particular book out of the Nag Hammadi that I am using as my primary reference is called the Tripartite Tractate. In 2019, I wrote a book called The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated, where I translated the Tripartite Tractate into modern English in a very, very simple way. I also illustrated all of the concepts in order to facilitate understanding. It is my hope that as you listen to this information and then meditate upon it, you will come to understand the origins of our universe and our place in it, and also the major players at work for both good and for ill, and how does it affect our lives. So far we've talked about the Father, the Son, the ALL, and the Fullness. We've talked about the fall of Logos, and we have talked about the Deficiency that came from the Fall. Now we're getting to the good news, which is the plan that was devised by Logos and the Fullness of God in order to redeem the Fall and all that came from the Fall. After the Fall, Logos broke apart and all of his small parts—which were themselves small copies of all of the originals of the Fullness because Logos was an entity that contained all of the Aeons inside of it, although smaller, fractal versions of the original Aeons. When Logos reached and fell, he broke apart, and these smaller fractals that constituted his being left him, and they went out on their own. Logos was horrified by what had happened, and the Nag Hammadi says that the best of Logos returned back to the Fullness, leaving the Deficiency behind. As I explained in the previous podcast, the main reason that this is called the Deficiency is because the parts of Logos were no longer arranged in their hierarchical structure that encouraged cooperation. They all rolled out and became equal to one another. They were driven by ego and self-centered ambition because Logos had been reaching for the heights when it fell, therefore the parts of Logos that separated out from him continued to reach for the heights. However, because they are not in a cooperative structure of the hierarchy, they're all self-centered. They're all, each one, reaching for the heights on their own. They have no cooperative arrangement. Logos regretted the Fall and the Phantoms. These are called the Phantoms, these little bits of him that rolled out—Phantoms of the Deficiency. Logos regretted the Fall, and the Phantoms born of the Fall. And “regret turned into condemnation of the irrational things he had produced.” Logos wanted their destruction because it was just a horrible thing that was happening. As I said in the last podcast, when Logos beat it back up to the Fullness, the Fullness and Logos did not remain idle, but they cooked up a scheme to bring redemption to the Deficiency. They brought forth what is called a fruit, which is an offspring in the Fullness, with the view to overthrowing what had come into being because of the Deficiency. These new creatures that were devised are better than the Deficiency because they come from the union of the entire Fullness, whereas the Deficiency came out of a mistaken solo effort by Logos alone. Out of this union of the Fullness and Logos came what are called the 2nd Order Powers. These powers are better and greater than those of the Imitation because they did not come into being out of ego a...