Hi Snoozy, I've always felt there is many heavenly realms outside the Pleroma of where True God source of All exists within the Heavenly Light. Even when I was a JW I always thought of God this way within his realm of Pure Light, and how we are all connected to this True Source of Light and Love. The more I explored this, the more I knew30 somehting years in this JW cult was not for me in that I could not connect to this WT Destroyer god. But getting back to Heaven, I've read in the extra aprocrypha books about the many heavens out there in the universe spoken of as Aeons of angels and godlike ones., who later continued to emanate from the God Source down into some of the lower heavenly realms away from the Pleroma where the Godhead resides. So many heirarchies of angelic creations and dwelling places fo heavens. The Source God, Ivisible Spirit, spoken of in the Apocryphon of John, because True God is Androngenous, emanated from himself a feminine aspect in his light. This perfect holy feminine spirit
The Spirit then look in the spring of life, and by the power of His thought, brought forth a feminine being, whose light was like His, and her power was also like his. She was the emanation of Him, His feminine counter-part. She was known as the forethought of all, and the perfect Aeon.
This is the first thought, his image; she became the womb of everything, for it is she who is prior to them all, the Mother-Father, the first man, – The Apocryphon of John
The Spirit bestowed upon her the followingfive powers:- the image of the invisible Spirit (first man or human), foreknowledge, indestructibility, eternal life and the truth.
From the pure light that emanated from her and surrounding Him, a spark ignited from him and she conceived another pure light –the "Only-Begotten Child" of His, or the divine Autogenes as the text called him. The divine Autogenes was the aeon Christ - the "Anointed One".
Like his father and mother, Autogenes (Christ) was pure and holy. Everything the Son (Autogenes/Christ) have done, he work for the glories of his Father (Spirit) and (Mother ). Here are the Gnostic holy Trinity – Father, Mother and Son, like the Orthodox concept of the Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Spirit; the three perfect aeons
Shana
