By Cyd Ropp, Ph. D. Copyright 2022; all rights reserved Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. We garnered several new subscribers from last week's Christmas episode. I'm so glad you have found us! This week's episode is a review of an episode that was broadcasted in September of 2022. One of the Substack readers requested more information about the 3rd Order of Powers, so here goes. And for those of you who have been with Gnostic Insights from the beginning, these repetitions are excellent reviews, because as you know, this hasn't been the easiest gnosis to unveil. The Tripartite Tractate is kind of complicated, but really, all you need to know—the bottom line—is that we come from the great consciousness known as the Father and to the Father we all return.   In the course of recording these episodes for the past couple of years, and writing now three books on the subject, I listen to these episodes over and over as I am editing them, then re listening to them, and I always benefit by hearing them again. So even if you come across one that you think you've heard before—well, you know we always start with reviews anyway, so it's repetitious in that sense. But then the entire big gnostic cosmology is like a big rolling torus, a doughnut shape, and that the information is continually coming in, and we process it, and then it wraps around again so that the next time you encounter it and it comes in and you process it and then it wraps around again, your gnosis deepens every time that you come across the information. At least that's what happens with me.  Karma glues your chosen memes to your otherwise perfect Self in a continual cycle The gnostic cosmogeny becomes more complex as each episode goes by so, if this is your first time listening to Gnostic Insights, I strongly recommend you visit the podcast’s home page and listen to the prior episodes in this series, in order to avoid confusion. You can find the prior episodes in this current series under the tab labeled “A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel.”  This week introduces the Third Order of Powers and the Christ. Thus far, in previous episodes, we have encountered several types of beings. Oftentimes when reading the Tripartite Tractate we run into the words “images,” “representations,” and “likenesses,” and they all refer to different types of entities. I keep a little cue card by my computer to remind me of who’s who. You may wish to do the same because these words appear frequently in the Tripartite Tractate and consistently refer to particular entities. Keeping them straight in your mind is very helpful to understanding the Gnostic Gospel. The first Being to emerge out of the pure consciousness of the Father is called “the One” and “the Son.” The Son is the first emanation from the Father, yet it remains part of the Father as an extension of his Holy Spirit. The Son quickly differentiated into what are called “the Totalities” and the “pure beings of the thought.” They are also referred to as “the ALL,” because they comprise ALL of the totality of the Son’s nature and thoughts. When the Totalities became Self-aware they “named themselves” and “sorted themselves” into what are called the “Aeons of the Hierarchy of the Fullness.” The Aeons of the Fullness are also pure images of the Son, with the added feature of Self-awareness. The images never came down into this material plane; the images of the ALL and the Aeons are still pure etheric images of the original Son. These aeonic images of the thought are the First Order of Powers. The moment the Son was formed, the ALL emerged. The ALL wears the Son like a garment, and the Son wears the ALL. They are co-existent.