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Achamoth

(Anagram for “Wisdom”) The lower Sophia who remains when the higher one rises back into heaven.


In Hebrew meaning "wisdom", (Sophia) possibly related to the Hebrew word for wisdom, "chokmah". An Aeon representing "wisdom" created by Sophia (Wisdom) in the pleroma. (See "First Apocalypse of James", Nag Hammadi Lib.) Called "Echmoth" in the "Gospel of Phillip", meaning "little Wisdom" or "wisdom of death".

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