Barbelo is the name given to the first entity to arise from God in the literature of the classic Gnostics. After God, she’s the foremost inhabitant of the Pleroma, the Gnostic name for Heaven. God doesn’t “create” Barbelo per se; instead, she comes from him by some indirect means.

In the Apocryphon of John, a tractate in the Nag Hammadi Library containing the most extensive recounting of the Sethian Gnostic creation myth, the Barbēlō is described as "the first power, the glory, Barbēlō, the perfect glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation".

Barbelo is a goddess in Gnosticsm. She is also called Thought, Providence, Forethought, or Foreknowledge. She is believed to be the first emanation of Bythos. In the Apocryphon of John, a writing in the Nag Hammadi Library, Barbelo is described as "The first power, the glory, Barbelo, the perfect glory in the aions, the glory of the revelation."

Barbelo, also known as the Goddess of Ineffability, the Father-Mother, Goddess of Love and Creation, Mother Goddess, and the Triple Androgynes Name, is the supreme Goddess of Creation and the co-creator of the Megaverse alongside God.

… (eternal entity or age) named Barbelo and an unnameable Father, perhaps to be understood as female and male aspects, respectively, of the highest god. In any event, the Father and Barbelo generate a divine family of entities, each of which is a mythic personification of a divine faculty or attribute:…

The Barbeloites, also known as Barbelo-Gnostics, were a sect of early Christian Gnosticism, distinguished by their unique theological and cosmological beliefs.

Below is a summary of the Gnostic myths. Before I retell any part of the Gnostic myth, let me just explain why I have included the Gnostic cosmogony in Dark Mirrors of Heaven. I found it interesting reading, comparing what most people are familiar with through Genesis and the …

The Trimorphic Protennoia relates three descents of the savior who is identified as the Mother Barbelo. While the last descent culminates in the Sethian baptismal rite of five seals, in fact all three descents contain baptismal language.

Barbelo one of the chief female aeons of the Gnostics, especially of the Nicolaites and the Borborians, the mother of every thing living. She lived with the father of the universe and with Christ in the eighth heaven. Hence the surname Barbelites, which was given to …

Barbelo is the canvas on which First Thought became manifest and omnipotent. For thought to become real, one must become aware of it and then one’s presence within it to become manifest reality.