Who is Sophia to Jesus?

Its followers worship Sophia as both divine female creator and counterpart to Jesus Christ. According to Gnostic beliefs, Christ was conceived of as having two aspects: a male half, identified as the son of God, and a female half, called Sophia, who was venerated as the mother of the universe.

What do Gnostics believe about Sophia?

In Gnosticism, Sophia is a feminine figure, analogous to the human soul but also simultaneously one of the feminine aspects of God. Gnostics held that she was the syzygy (female twin divine Aeon) of Jesus (i.e. the Bride of Christ), and Holy Spirit of the Trinity.

What do the Gnostic Gospels say about Jesus?

They held Jesus in high contrast to Yahweh, who was thought to be an inferior and even immoral deity. To them, salvation was liberation from slavery to the body and the material world. They believed that they possessed the secret saving knowledge or information that Jesus had given to the apostles.

What does Nag Hammadi say about Jesus?

The gospel of Philip, one of the Nag Hammadi texts, describes Mary Magdalene as a “companion” of Jesus “whom the Savior loved more than all the other disciples and [whom] he kissed often on the mouth.”

Do Gnostics believe in the crucifixion?

At the time of the crucifixion, Christ left the body so that it was the human Jesus who was crucified. Another Gnostic school in Alexandria led by Basilides (120-140 CE) taught that a bait and switch had occurred at the crucifixion; it was Simon of Cyrene (in the canonical gospels) who was crucified, not Christ.

What are the 52 Gnostic Gospels?

Complete list of codices found in Nag Hammadi

• The Apocryphon of John.
• The Gospel of Thomas a sayings gospel.
• The Gospel of Philip.
• The Hypostasis of the Archons.
• On the Origin of the World.
• The Exegesis on the Soul.
• The Book of Thomas the Contender.

Who is the goddess Sophia?

Sophia is the Greek goddess of mythology archetype of spiritual wisdom in women’s spirituality circles, in which she is viewed as the Divine Feminine.