Fw: Re: what to read next that isn't pynchon

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Just realized I failed to Cit Op.:

           Yaldabaoth
           Gnostic myth recounts that Sophia (Greek, literally meaning "wisdom"), 
           the Demiurge’s mother and a partial aspect of the divine Pleroma or
           “Fullness,” desired to create something apart from the divine 
           totality, and without the receipt of divine assent. In this abortive act of 
           separate creation, she gave birth to the monstrous Demiurge and, 
           being ashamed of her deed, she wrapped him in a cloud and created 
           a throne for him within it. The Demiurge, isolated, did not behold his 
           mother, nor anyone else, and thus concluded that only he himself 
           existed, being ignorant of the superior levels of reality that were his 
           birth-place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge