Trimorphic Protennoia

The First Thought speaks in three descents — as Voice, as Speech, as Word — coming down through the aeons to wake what is asleep. Its third section runs strikingly parallel to the prologue of John's gospel, and the direction of dependence is disputed.

The best evidence that Gnostic and canonical material were in live conversation rather than sealed off from each other, and the best single portrait of THE CALL as a cosmic action rather than a private event.