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Last week we talked about the Holy Spirit, what or who it is, and how and why it came to Earth. To review:

In Gnostic teaching, there are three kinds of Power that we know of: The First Order of Powers were the original Aeons—that is, the differentiations that are within the Son of God and that coexist with the Son. It’s called the First Order of Powers because the Son is the first and only direct emanation of the originating Source of consciousness and power. The Pleroma of the First Order of Powers is the infinite number of variables of all possibilities known to the God Above All Gods.

The Second Order of Powers is us and all other life forms. We are the fruit, or children, of the First Order of Powers, fruited through the Pleroma of Logos after he abandoned the results of the Fall and returned to the Fullness above. We’re part of the original power coming from the Father and through the Son and then through the Aeons and on through the Pleroma of Logos. And we are literally the fruit of the Aeon Logos. Logos contained fractals of all the other Aeons inside of him, and we are the fruit of those fractals after Logos returned back to the Fullness.

The Holy Spirit is the Pleroma of the Christ. It is also called the Third Order of Powers. The Third Order of Powers is what came along with the manifestation of the Christ, first in the heavens and then on Earth. Christ is not an Aeon—He is greater than the Aeons. Nor is Christ the original Son that emerged directly from the Father, because the Son predates the Christ. Christ is the Third Order of Powers, formed through the prayer of the Aeons under the direction of the Son and with the blessing and will of the Father. The Tripartite Tractate says:

Then from the harmony, in a joyous willingness which had com