Sabaoth and Jesus Christ: a comparison

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Sabaoth and Jesus Christ: a comparison

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Kenosis and exaltation of Sabaoth (source)Kenosis and exaltation of Jesus ChristKenosis and exaltation of Jesus called Christ

This ruler, by being androgynous, made himself a vast realm, an extent without limit. And he contemplated creating offspring for himself, and created for himself seven offspring, androgynous just like their parent. And he said to his offspring, "It is I who am god of the entirety."
And Zoe (Life), the daughter of Pistis Sophia, cried out and said to him, "You are mistaken, Sakla!" – for which the alternative name is Yaltabaoth. 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.


who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,

The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the jews.
(Mark 15:26)

Now when his offspring Sabaoth saw the force of that angel, he repented and condemned his father and his mother, matter. He loathed her, but he sang songs of praise up to Sophia and her daughter Zoe.


7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, 8 he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.

And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”)
(Mark 15:34)

And Sophia and Zoe caught him up and gave him charge of the seventh heaven, below the veil between above and below. And he is called 'God of the forces, Sabaoth', since he is up above the forces of chaos, for Sophia established him.


Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Some women were watching from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joseph,[d] and Salome.
(Mark 15:40)


The Jews could not be content with Sabaoth just being a subdeity, but there was a way to reconcile them: Lord Sabaoth of the Gnostic myth was interpreted as the outer face of the Jewish God. Jesus, in a first step, became identified with this repentant archon, thus distinguished from the supreme God. This Jesus appeared in two forms, as a serpent in Paradise and in human shape during the reign of Tiberius. Also, Jesus' father had to be changed from the former archon to the supreme God.

This stage is mirrored in something called pre-Pauline hymn of the epistle to the Philippians, 2:6-11 which underlines the parallels between Paul's Jesus and the Sabaoth of the gnostic myth. Also some other traces of this stadium [?] in the NT, the patristic and liturgical literature are given.

Of course it still offended Jews to have now Sabaoth as a second deity, violating their monotheistic claims. Thus Jesus could not be kept as Lord, but had to be lowered to a different status

http://www.egodeath.com/JeanMagneEarlyEucharist.htm

Hence it is explained the multiplication of the Mary in the Gospel: the Sophia was euhemerized.

clues concerning the “multiple Mary” conundrum of the gospels might be found in seeing the confusion as an effort to write around (or write out) the tradition that it was Jesus’ mother rather than a woman acquaintance—Mary Magdalene—who had the scarlet reputation (keeping in view that the floating tradition of the woman taken in adultery, usually assigned to Luke, is unnamed).

https://vridar.org/2012/07/07/hoffmanns ... f-a-woman/
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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