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Children of the Fullness: A Gnostic Myth
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- 979-8-218-80199-1
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This delightful children's book presents an ancient Gnostic creation myth. Our myth begins in the heavenly realm with the Father, His Son, and the angels of the Fullness of God. One of the angels, Logos, falls from Heaven into a strange, dark emptiness. He leaves a part of himself behind in the darkness and flees back to the Fullness while his twin organizes the remnants of the fall that becomes our Earth. Logos and the angels pray for life and love to enter the twin's creation and so they send their children--all living creatures--down to the Earth. The myth tells how the children of the Fullness forget their heavenly origin and loving mission and become self-centered and angry with each other. The angels go to the Father and Son and pray for the Father to send a Princely Savior to Earth to remind creation of its mission of bringing love. …
This delightful children's book presents an ancient Gnostic creation myth. Our myth begins in the heavenly realm with the Father, His Son, and the angels of the Fullness of God. One of the angels, Logos, falls from Heaven into a strange, dark emptiness. He leaves a part of himself behind in the darkness and flees back to the Fullness while his twin organizes the remnants of the fall that becomes our Earth. Logos and the angels pray for life and love to enter the twin's creation and so they send their children--all living creatures--down to the Earth. The myth tells how the children of the Fullness forget their heavenly origin and loving mission and become self-centered and angry with each other. The angels go to the Father and Son and pray for the Father to send a Princely Savior to Earth to remind creation of its mission of bringing love. The Prince is successful and redeems all of creation, which reminds the twin of his better half above in the Fullness. The twin rejoins Logos and all of creation returns home to Heaven to live in joy with the angels, Father, Son, and Prince forevermore.
This myth is based on one of the ancient books of the Nag Hammadi codices called The Tripartite Tractate. The author has rendered this complicated codex into a simple and understandable tale that will appeal to children and grownups alike. Unlike many Gnostic myths, this particular story forms the basis of Gnostic Christianity that was sadly excluded from the New Testament by the Catholic Pope, the Emperor of Rome, and the Nicene Council around 350 AD.