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**aNoBVsUW** · 04-13-2006, 02:13 PM

Judas [said] to him, â€œI know who you are and where you have come from. You are from the immortal realm of Barbelo. And I am not worthy to utter the name of the one who has sent you Funny , 'reminds me of Babylon ' is what Jodie said too ! She is my best friend and fellow alchemist . I don't think there is any relation to the terms etiologically but that remains to be seen . The first time I had ever heard Barbelo was when The Gospel of Judas was released this week by National Geographic . I feel a lot of people globally will be asking about Barbelo too for a while . This is what I can find right now ;

Barbelo
1.In the Apocryphon of John, Barbelo is described as "The first power, the glory, Barbelo, the perfect glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation
2."This is the First Thought, His Image; She became the womb of everything for She is prior to them all, the Mother-Father, the First Man [Anthropos], the Holy Spirit, the Thrice-Male, the Thrice-Powerful, the Thrice-named Androgynous One, and the Eternal Aeon among the Invisible Ones, and the first to come forth."
3.This is the Five-Aeon of the Father which is the First Man [Anthropos], the Image of the Invisible Spirit; it is the Pronoia [Providence] which is Barbelo, the Thought and the Foreknowledge and the Indestructability and the Eternal Life and the Truth. This is the androgynous Five-Aeon, which is the Ten-Aeon [because each of the five principles is androgynous], which is the Father." [p.102]
http://www.kheper.net/topics/Gnosticism ... ation.html 1.Barbelo is from the Greek, meaning forethought. (She is also referred to as Ennoia, intention) The Barbelo is the first thought (ennoia), or emanation of the Supreme being in Gnostic creation stories, the mother of the Aeons.
She is the emanation of the First Cause, the creative principle who in turn creates (or causes to be created) the entire manifest world. In a sense, she also contains the universe within her; she is sometimes referred to as the womb of the world.
Simon Magus equated the Ennoia with Sophia, the co-creatrix who descended through the levels of material existence and became entrapped; it is the action of the father manifesting through the sun who redeems her. Although in this case, Simon was referring to himself, Christian Gnostics put Jesus in this role.
In some texts, she is identified with the Holy Spirit, immediate and present in all things.
In kabbalah, Barbelo is equivalent to the manifestation of Kether; in Thelemic philosophy, she equates to Nuit.
http://altreligion.about.com/library/gl ... arbelo.htm The Gnostic term Barbēlo refers to the first emanation of God in the various Sethian gnostic cosmogonies. This figure is also variously referred to as 'Mother-Father' (a moniker that hints at her apparent androgyny), 'First Human Being', 'The Triple Androgynous Name', or 'Eternal Aeon'.-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbelo http://essenes.net/32pentad.html
http://www.webcom.com/gnosis/naghamm/steles.html
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Babylon
Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu, an ancient city in Mesopotamia (modern Al Hillah, Iraq). It was the "holy city" of Babylonia from around 2300 BC, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian empire from 612 BC. In the Hebrew Bible, the name appears as בבל (Babel), interpreted by Genesis 11:9 to mean "confusion", from the verb balal, "to confuse". In Akkadian, bāb-ilÃ» means "Gateway of the god", translating Sumerian Kadingirra.The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World....The city itself was built upon the Euphrates, and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods....It has been estimated that Babylon was the largest city in the world from c. 1770 to 1670 BC, and again between c. 612 and 320 BC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon Whore of Babylon as an evil and decadent government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whore_of_Babylon
A metaphor for the oppressive rule of Roman over Judea
In the Book of Revelation, the city of Babylon seems to be the symbol of every kind of evil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_%2 ... stament%29 Still looking but can't find a relationship in the two words yet . I am curious about the naming of the place Babylon and wonder if it might have been derived from Barbelo . What does the realm of Barbelo really mean anyway if Barbelo is the Goddess before the alpha the great grandmother Goddess where is the realm named for her ? Is there an implied reference to Babylon ?

04-13-2006, 02:13 PM	#14
aNoBVsUW Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 400 Senior Member	Judas [said] to him, â€œI know who you are and where you have come from. You are from the immortal realm of Barbelo. And I am not worthy to utter the name of the one who has sent you Funny , 'reminds me of Babylon ' is what Jodie said too ! She is my best friend and fellow alchemist . I don't think there is any relation to the terms etiologically but that remains to be seen . The first time I had ever heard Barbelo was when The Gospel of Judas was released this week by National Geographic . I feel a lot of people globally will be asking about Barbelo too for a while . This is what I can find right now ; Barbelo 1.In the Apocryphon of John, Barbelo is described as "The first power, the glory, Barbelo, the perfect glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation 2."This is the First Thought, His Image; She became the womb of everything for She is prior to them all, the Mother-Father, the First Man [Anthropos], the Holy Spirit, the Thrice-Male, the Thrice-Powerful, the Thrice-named Androgynous One, and the Eternal Aeon among the Invisible Ones, and the first to come forth." 3.This is the Five-Aeon of the Father which is the First Man [Anthropos], the Image of the Invisible Spirit; it is the Pronoia [Providence] which is Barbelo, the Thought and the Foreknowledge and the Indestructability and the Eternal Life and the Truth. This is the androgynous Five-Aeon, which is the Ten-Aeon [because each of the five principles is androgynous], which is the Father." [p.102] http://www.kheper.net/topics/Gnosticism ... ation.html 1.Barbelo is from the Greek, meaning forethought. (She is also referred to as Ennoia, intention) The Barbelo is the first thought (ennoia), or emanation of the Supreme being in Gnostic creation stories, the mother of the Aeons. She is the emanation of the First Cause, the creative principle who in turn creates (or causes to be created) the entire manifest world. In a sense, she also contains the universe within her; she is sometimes referred to as the womb of the world. Simon Magus equated the Ennoia with Sophia, the co-creatrix who descended through the levels of material existence and became entrapped; it is the action of the father manifesting through the sun who redeems her. Although in this case, Simon was referring to himself, Christian Gnostics put Jesus in this role. In some texts, she is identified with the Holy Spirit, immediate and present in all things. In kabbalah, Barbelo is equivalent to the manifestation of Kether; in Thelemic philosophy, she equates to Nuit. http://altreligion.about.com/library/gl ... arbelo.htm The Gnostic term Barbēlo refers to the first emanation of God in the various Sethian gnostic cosmogonies. This figure is also variously referred to as 'Mother-Father' (a moniker that hints at her apparent androgyny), 'First Human Being', 'The Triple Androgynous Name', or 'Eternal Aeon'.-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbelo http://essenes.net/32pentad.html http://www.webcom.com/gnosis/naghamm/steles.html ============================================= Babylon Babylon is the Greek variant of Akkadian Babilu, an ancient city in Mesopotamia (modern Al Hillah, Iraq). It was the "holy city" of Babylonia from around 2300 BC, and the seat of the Neo-Babylonian empire from 612 BC. In the Hebrew Bible, the name appears as בבל (Babel), interpreted by Genesis 11:9 to mean "confusion", from the verb balal, "to confuse". In Akkadian, bāb-ilÃ» means "Gateway of the god", translating Sumerian Kadingirra.The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World....The city itself was built upon the Euphrates, and divided in equal parts along its left and right banks, with steep embankments to contain the river's seasonal floods....It has been estimated that Babylon was the largest city in the world from c. 1770 to 1670 BC, and again between c. 612 and 320 BC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon Whore of Babylon as an evil and decadent government http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whore_of_Babylon A metaphor for the oppressive rule of Roman over Judea In the Book of Revelation, the city of Babylon seems to be the symbol of every kind of evil. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_%2 ... stament%29 Still looking but can't find a relationship in the two words yet . I am curious about the naming of the place Babylon and wonder if it might have been derived from Barbelo . What does the realm of Barbelo really mean anyway if Barbelo is the Goddess before the alpha the great grandmother Goddess where is the realm named for her ? Is there an implied reference to Babylon ?
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