Adam in Yaldabaoth’s Paradise Secret book of John
The term "first ruler" in the context of the Nag Hammadi Codex refers to a figure named Yaldabaoth, also known as the Demiurge.
In Gnostic belief, Yaldabaoth is often depicted as an ignorant or malevolent creator god who is responsible for the material world.
Yaldabaoth is frequently described as arrogant, ignorant of the higher spiritual truths, and a being who claims to be the only god, despite being created by higher divine powers.
Uanna (Adapa) from Mesopotamian mythology, Thales of Miletus from Ancient Greece, Kashyapa from Indian tradition, Confucius from Chinese philosophy, Abraham from Judaism, Vipassi Buddha from Buddhism, the Master of Masters from Celtic folklore, associated with the Sun, and Yaldabaoth from Gnostic tradition — each hold significant roles within their respective cultural and religious contexts.
Yaldabaoth in Gnostic texts is depicted as a creator god with great power and knowledge, though in a much more ambiguous moral framing.
Yaldabaoth is the same god, but he is also the god of the unconscious mind.
We must confront and integrate Yaldabaoth in order to achieve wholeness.
The chief Archon is Yaldabaoth (also Yaltabaoth), also called Saklas (“fool”) and Samael (“god of the blind” / blind god).
She breathed into his face, and her breath became a fiery angel for her; and that angel bound Yaldabaoth and cast him down into Tartaros below the abyss.
Jung and the Red Book neighborhood equate Abraxas with Yaldabaoth in popular paraphrase.
Later summaries also soft-link lion-faced Yaldabaoth with Saturn.
That frame soft-bridges the demiurge / Yaldabaoth / Samael trail already on Who is Yahweh?.
Who is Yahweh?: demiurge / Yaldabaoth / Nag Hammadi neighbor.
In 'On the Origin of the World', he is one of the three sons of Yaldabaoth, with the other two being Astaphaios and Eloai.
In the Secret Book of John, a second-century text found in the Nag Hammadi codices of Gnosticism, Michael is placed in control of the demons who help Yaldabaoth create Adam, along with six others named Uriel, Asmenedas, Saphasatoel, Aarmouriam, Richram, and Amiorps.
The chief ruler, Yaldabaoth, knew that Because the light-filled Epinoia within Adam Made his mental abilities greater than his own, Adam had been disobedient.In order to recover the Power that he had put into Adam Yaldabaoth made Adam completely forgetful.
[I asked the Savior, “What is it to be ‘completely forgetful?’”He replied, “It is not what Moses wrote in his first book:‘He caused Adam to fall into deep sleep’Rather, Adam’s perceptions were veiledAnd he became unconscious.As he (Yaldabaoth) said through his prophet:'I will make their minds dull so that they do not see or understand.'”]
When Yaldabaoth discovered that they had moved away from him He cursed his earth. He located the woman as she was preparing herself for her man.He gave the woman over so that the man might be her master, Because he did not know the secret of the divine strategy.
The man and woman were too terrified to renounce Yaldabaoth, Who showed his ignorance to his angelsAnd he cast both of them out of paradise Dressing them in heavy darkness. The Chief Archon saw the young woman who was standing by Adam. He realized that the light-filled Epinoia of life was within her. Yaldabaoth became completely ignorant.
Yaldabaoth raped Eve.She bore two sons.
Yaldabaoth deceptively named the two: Cain and Abel.
Yaldabaoth installed the two with authority over natural elements So they can to rule over the tomb.
Yaldabaoth eventually came to regret everything he had created.He decided to bring a great floodUpon creation, upon mankind.
Yaldabaoth has many faces. More than all that have been listed So he can convey any face he wants to the seraphim around him.
This results in a crisis within the Pleroma, leading to the appearance of the Yaldabaoth, a "serpent with a lion's head".
Using this stolen power, Yaldabaoth creates a material world in imitation of the divine Pleroma.
In the Gnostic text known as the Secret Book of John, Elohim is another name for Abel, whose parents are Eve and Yaldabaoth.
In other Gnostic books, he is known as Samael or Yaldabaoth.
Yaldabaoth, called also Saklas who emerged later, Archon of fornication and Samael source
In the Gnostic text known as the Secret Book of John, Elohim is another name for Abel, whose parents are Eve and Yaldabaoth.
Yaldabaoth (sometimes Samael) is the chief demiurge name in several Nag Hammadi texts.
And in much of the cosmology of the Nag Hammadi Codices, Yahweh, (YHWH) the unpronounceable orthodox-alleged father of Christ and the God of the Old Testament, was a demonic demiurge alternatively referred to as Yaldabaoth and occasionally, Samael, playing a trick on the teeming gullible masses, using his wicked archons to enforce the deception.
The Secret Book of John (Apocryphon of John), a Nag Hammadi text, gives a genealogy in which Yaldabaoth names his sons after the biblical brothers:
Yaldabaoth raped Eve.
Yaldabaoth deceptively named the two: Cain and Abel.
Visions of Atlantis already tied Nag Hammadi’s Yaldabaoth reading to YHWH.
In Nag Hammadi cosmology, as summarized in Visions of Atlantis, YHWH is identified with the demonic demiurge Yaldabaoth (sometimes Samael).
The Secret Book of John further places Elohim and Yahweh as sons of Yaldabaoth, deceptively named Cain and Abel.