The law of "Thou shalt" and “Thou shalt not” promulgated by the Creator is just one more form of the “cosmic” tyranny. ... As the pneumatic is free from the heirmamene, so he is free from the yoke of moral law. To him, all things are permitted, since the pneuma is saved “in its nature,” and can be neither sullied by actions not frightened by the threat of archontic retribution. The pneumatic freedom, however, is a matter of more than mere indifferent permission: through intentional violation of the demiurgical norms the pneumatic thwarts the design of the Archons and paradoxically contributes to the work of salvation.

I am androgynous. I am Mother (and) I am Father, since I copulate with myself. I copulated with myself and with those who love me, and it is through me alone that the All stands firm. I am the Womb that gives shape to the All by giving birth to the Light that shines in splendor. I am the Aeon to come. I am the fulfillment of the All.

They set side by side two who have been appointed by God, one being Christ, but one the devil. And they say that Christ has been allotted the world to come, but that this world has been entrusted to the devil … And they say that this is why Jesus was begotten of the seed of a man and chosen, and thus has been named Son of God by election, after the Christ who came to him from on high in the form of a dove. But they say that he is not begotten of God the Father but created as one of the archangels, and that he is ruler both of angels and of all creatures of the Almighty.

If [you] become human, [a human] will love you. If you become [spirit], spirit will unite with you. If you become word, word will have intercourse with you. If you become light, light will mingle with you. If you become one of those above, those above will rest on you.

By its own chatter, the unyielding mind is tied But the soul is silent; a whisper is her guide And all who steadily by this counsel abide Will confound even the wisest among the wise.