Autogenes — Self-Generated
Luminous self-generation
The Autogenes shell marks the Self-Generated luminous order named in the Apocryphon of John. It is drawn within the Barbelo shell to show a decreasing scale of emanative specificity, although the source narrates the order mythically rather than with nested spatial geometry.
Point 3 of 6 in Gnostic Pleroma — Aeon Layers
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
The Apocryphon of John (NHC II,1; III,1; IV,1; BG 8502,2) (primary_canonical)
The cosmological sequence describes the Self-Generated and its luminous order following the Barbelo revelation; the concentric placement is an interface convention.