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The Church Fathers · c. 150–230
The Thunder, Perfect Mind
Anonymous
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What it is
A female voice speaks entirely in contradictions: the first and the last, the honoured and the scorned, the whore and the holy one, the barren woman with many sons. There is no narrative and no cosmology, only the paradoxes.
Why it lasted
Unlike anything else that survives from antiquity, Christian or otherwise, and the strongest evidence that gnostic communities produced poetry meant to be recited rather than only systems meant to be learned.
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Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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