Four Luminaries

Luminous ordering of the Pleroma

The Four Luminaries shell represents the named luminous ordering that follows the Self-Generated in the Apocryphon of John. The fire tag signals radiance as symbolic language, while the shell itself is not a claim about four lights inside or around a person's body.

Pleroma — fullnessBarbelo — First ThoughtAutogenes — Self-GeneratedFour LuminariesFour LuminariesSophia — WisdomPneuma — awakening spark

Point 4 of 6 in Gnostic Pleroma — Aeon Layers

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

The Apocryphon of John (NHC II,1; III,1; IV,1; BG 8502,2) (primary_canonical)

The Apocryphon's cosmological sequence names four Luminaries and associates them with the luminous ordering of the higher realms; this body-centred shell is editorial.

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