A Concordance by Thornton Ladd

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First Man as name for divine substance
figure of the demiurge

Gnostic tradition says that when the highest God saw what miserable, unconscious creatures these human beings were whom the demiurge had created, who were not even able to walk upright, he immediately got the work of redemption under way:

Gnostic symbols for the divine substance
figure of the demiurge

Gnostic tradition says that when the highest God saw what miserable, unconscious creatures these human beings were whom the demiurge had created, who were not even able to walk upright, he immediately got the work of redemption under way:

heavenly stuff as Sophia the Divine Wisdom
figure of the demiurge

Gnostic tradition says that when the highest God saw what miserable, unconscious creatures these human beings were whom the demiurge had created, who were not even able to walk upright, he immediately got the work of redemption under way:

Primordial Man as name for divine substance
figure of the demiurge

Gnostic tradition says that when the highest God saw what miserable, unconscious creatures these human beings were whom the demiurge had created, who were not even able to walk upright, he immediately got the work of redemption under way:

heavenly rose in Dante's Divine Comedy
Quaternio: Fourfold

Chapter 14 of Aion continues with the series of quaternity images from the Gnostic texts. We have previously considered four quaternities:

divine hero's fight with mother dragon
motif of a black man and a black snake

The motif appears in two dream images of an eight-year-old boy who was rather afraid of his father:

man worships inner psychic force as divine
God-image

The God-image may be understood as follows:

neophyte lifted up to divine status
God-image

The God-image may be understood as follows:

vision of Divine as sun or light
visible father of the world

The visible father of the world is the sun, the heavenly fire, for which reason father, God, sun, and fire are mythologically synonymous:

phallus stands for the creative divinity
creative and procreative libido

Aspects of libido are represented in numerous ways:

consecration of the divine power of Helios
legend of Mithras

Mithras crowns Helios with a crown of rays, as he kneels before him or floats up to him from belowMithras holds the shoulder of the mystic bull above the head of Helios who stands bowed before Mithras, his left hand resting on his sword hilt with a crown lying between themMithras seems to act in the capacity of patron to Helios

divine bliss as self-containment
self-containment

A state of utter inactivity and desirelessness is symbolized by the idea of self-containment, which amounts to divine bliss. Man in this state is contained as if in his own vessel, like an Indian god in the lotus or in the embrace of his Shakti. In accordance with this mythological and philosophical conception, the enviable Diogenes lived in a tub in order to give symbolical expression to the blissfulness and godlikeness of his freedom from desire

animal nature of the divine power
god transformed in and through man

Transformation of a god through man can be seen in the birth of Mondamin, the corn or maize god:

assimilate divine nature of the gods
ravenous hunger

A Pyramid text dealing with the arrival of the dead Pharaoh in heaven describes how he overpowers the gods in order to assimilate their divine nature and become their lord:

divinity who is eaten in Last Supper
Christian versus Mithraic mysteries

The Christian and Mithraic mysteries bear certain parallels:

divine messengers appear at mythological births
night sea journey of the hero

FROBENIUS DESCRIBES THE JOURNEY

Gosh or Drvashpa as a feminine divinity
bull's soul

It is suggested that the bull has a hidden feminine significance. Gosh or Drvashpa was the bull's soul and it was worshipped as a feminine divinity. At first she was so faint-hearted that she refused to become the goddess of cattle until, as a consolation, the coming of Zarathustra was announced to her

hero conceived by some divine agency
birth of the hero

An event which raises the question, Why does the birth of a hero always have to take place under such extraordinary circumstances?

royalty or divinity as expression of transpersonal
birth of the hero

An event which raises the question, Why does the birth of a hero always have to take place under such extraordinary circumstances?

shepherd's offering to the divine infant
legend of Mithras

Mithras crowns Helios with a crown of rays, as he kneels before him or floats up to him from belowMithras holds the shoulder of the mystic bull above the head of Helios who stands bowed before Mithras, his left hand resting on his sword hilt with a crown lying between themMithras seems to act in the capacity of patron to Helios

seer endowed with the divine light
Brahman

Brahman constitutes not only a state but also a processa continuing creative condition which may be understood as follows:

desired woman changes into divine mistress
Hermas' effect on his age

Hermas had a considerable share in the spiritual movements of his age by realizing the transformation of a desired woman into a divine mistress, freeing him to be under the law of his own soul

immaculate womb of the divine fount
dream substitute for the mother

The dream associations and comments of a young man in analysis described a very important experience of his childhood. “Cathedral,” he says, “makes me think of Cologne Cathedral. Even as a child I was fascinated by it. I remember my mother telling me of it for the first time and I also remember how, whenever I saw a village church, I used to ask if that were Cologne Cathedral. I wanted to be a priest in a cathedral like that”:

Kundry as half divine and half animal
survey of the mana-personality

The mana-personality is a dominant of the collective unconscious which becomes evident when the goal has been achieved, namely, the conquest of the anima as an autonomous complex, and her transformation into a function of relationship between the conscious and the unconscious:

nothing `divine' attaches to mana
mana

Mana is a supernatural power or influence having the following attributes as described by Codrington in his study of the Melanesians:

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