Gnosticism, the Nag Hammadi Library, and fine art nude photography

excerpted from HER: the sacred naked mother earth, and the divine feminine soul, by Jack Haas

I was sent forth from the power,

and I have come to those who reflect upon me,

and I have been found among those who seek after me.

…I am the first and the last.
I am the honored one and the scorned one.
I am the whore and the holy one.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am the mother and the daughter.

I am the members of my mother.

I am the barren one

and many are her sons.
I am she whose wedding is great,
And I have not taken a husband.

I am the midwife and she who does not bear.

I am the solace of my labor pains.

I am the bride and the bridegroom,

and it is my husband who begot me.

I am the mother of my father

and the sister of my husband,

and he is my offspring…

Hear me in gentleness, and learn of me in roughness.

I am she who cries out,

and am cast forth upon the face of the earth…

I am the one who cries out,

and I listen…

For what is inside of you is what is outside of you,

and the one who fashions you on the outside

is the one who shaped the inside of you.

And what you see outside of you,

you see inside of you…

For I am the one who alone exists,

and I have no one who will judge me.

Sophia[i]

HER: the sacred naked mother earth, and the divine feminine soul

by Jack Haas

Mystical devotion to the Goddess, and fine art nude photography.

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