Achamōth

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Sophia is occasionally referred to by the term Achamōth. In Gnosticism, Sophia is a feminine figure, analogous to the human soul but also simultaneously one of the feminine aspects of God. Gnostics held that she was the syzygy, or female twin, of Jesus, i.e. the Bride of Christ, and the Holy Spirit of the Trinity.

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When

First attested
0 CE
Attested period
1600 – 2020
Historical notes
Gnosticism is a 17th-century term.

Relationships

co occurs with
Prunikos, Propatôr, Yaldabaoth
aspect of
Sophia
parent of
Dēmiurgos
consort of
Saviour
manifests as
Sophia
child of
Sophia

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Sources

Source passages

“She is occasionally referred to by the term Achamōth (Ἀχαμώθ, Hebrew: חכמה chokmah) and as Prunikos (Προύνικος). In the Nag Hammadi texts, Sophia is the highest aeon or anthropic emanation of the godhead.”

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