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The episode explores the nature of identity and the pursuit of knowledge through ancient wisdom traditions, featuring a poetic and symbolic text that describes the complexities of the self. The host, Psyche, examines the text and its themes of paradox and duality.
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Browse era →I was sent forth from the power and I have come to those who reflect upon me. I have been found among those who seek after me. Look upon me you who think of me and you hearers hear me you who are waiting for me. Take me to yourselves and do not banish me from your sight. Do
not make your voice hate me nor your hearing. Do not be ignorant of me anywhere or anytime. Be on your guard. Do not be ignorant of me, for I am the first and the last. I am the honored one and the scorned one. I am the and the holy one. I am the wife and the
virgin. I am the mother and the daughter. I am the members of my mother. I am the barren one and many are her sons. I am she whose wedding is great and I have not taken a husband. I am the midwife and she who does not bear. I am the solace of my labor pains. I am the
bride and the bridegroom and it is my husband who begot me. I am the mother of my father and the sister of my husband and he is my offspring. I am the slave of him who prepared me. I am the ruler of my offspring. But he is the one who begott me before time began and he is my
offspring in due time and my power comes from him. I am the staff of his power in his youth and he is the rod of my old age and whatever he wills happens to me. I am the silence that is incomprehensible and the idea whose remembrance is frequent. I am the voice whose sound is manifold and the word
whose appearance is multiple. I am the utterance of my name. Why you who hate me do you love me and hate those who love me? You who deny me, confess me. And you who confess me, deny me. You who tell the truth about me, lie about me.
And you who have lied about me, tell the truth about me. You who know me, be ignorant of me. And those who have not known me, let them know me. For I am knowledge and ignorance. I am shame and boldness. I am shameless. I am ashamed. I am strength and I am fear. I am war
and peace. Give heed to me. I am the one who is disgraced and the great one. Give heed to my poverty and my wealth. Do not be arrogant to me when I am cast out upon the earth. For you will find me in those that are to come. And do not look upon me on the dung heap, nor go and
leave me cast out. For you will find me in the kingdoms. And do not look upon me when I am cast out among those who are disgraced and in the least places, nor laugh at me, and do not cast me out among those who are slain in violence. But I, I am compassionate and I am
cruel. Be on your guard. Do not hate my obedience and do not love my self-control. In my weakness, do not forsake me and do not be afraid of my power. For why do you despise my fear and curse my pride? But I am she who exists in all fears and strength in
trembling? I am she who is weak, and I am well in a pleasant place. I am senseless, and I am wise. Why have you hated me in your councils? For I shall be silent among those who are silent, and I shall appear and speak. Why then have you hated me, you Greeks? Because I
am a barbarian among the barbarians. For I am the wisdom of the Greeks and the knowledge of the barbarians. I am the judgment of the Greeks and of the barbarians. I am the one whose image is great in Egypt and the one who has no image among the barbarians. I am the one
who has been hated everywhere and who has been loved everywhere. I am the one whom they call life and you have called death. I am the one whom they call law and you have called lawlessness. I am the one whom you have pursued and I am the one whom you have seized. I am the one whom you have scattered and you have
gathered me together. I am the one before whom you have been ashamed and you have been shameless to me. I am she who does not keep festival and I am she whose festivals are many. I I am godless and I am the one whose god is great. I am the one whom you have reflected upon and you have scorned me. I am unlearned
and they learn from me. I am the one that you have despised and you reflect upon me. I am the one whom you have hidden from and you appear to me. But whenever you hide yourselves, I myself will appear. For whenever you appear, I myself will hide from you. Take me from grief and take me to yourselves from
understanding and grief and take me to yourselves from places that are ugly and in ruin and rob from those which are good even though in ugliness. Out of shame take me to yourselves shamelessly and out of shamelessness and shame. Upgrade my members in yourselves and come forward to me. You who know me and
you who know my members and establish the great ones among the small first creatures. Come forward to childhood and do not despise it because it is small and it is little. And do not turn away greatnesses in some parts from the smallalnesses. For the smallnesses are known from the greatnesses. Why do you
curse me and honor me? You have wounded and you have had mercy. Do not separate me from the first ones whom you have known. I know the first ones and those after them know me. I am the knowledge of my inquiry and the finding of those who seek after me and the command of those who ask of me and the power of the
powers in my knowledge of the angels who have been sent at my word and of gods in their seasons by my counsel and of spirits of every man who exists with me and of women who dwell within me. I am the one who is honored and who is praised and who is despised scornfully.
I am peace and war has come because of me and I am an alien and a citizen. I am the substance and the one who has no substance. Those who are without association with me are ignorant of me. And those who are in my substance are the ones who know me. Those who are close to me have been ignorant of me.
And those who are far away from me are the ones who have known me. On the day when I am close to you, you are far away from me. And on the day when I am far away from you, I am close to you. I am control and the uncontrollable. I am the union and the dissolution. I am the
abiding and I am the dissolution. I am the one below and they come up to me. I am the judgment and the acquitt. I I am sinless and the root of sin derives from me. I am lust in outward appearance and interior self-control exists within me. I am the hearing which is attainable to
everyone and the speech which cannot be grasped. I am a mute who does not speak and great is my multitude of words. Hear me in gentleness and learn of me in roughness. I am she who cries out and I am cast forth upon the face of the earth. I prepare the bread and my mind
within. I am the knowledge of my name. I am the one who cries out and I listen. You who are vanquished judge those who vanquish you before they give judgment against you. Because the judge and partiality exist in you. If you are condemned by this one, who will acquit you? Or if you are acquitted by him, who
will be able to detain you? For what is inside of you is what is outside of you. And the one who fashions you on the outside is the one who shaped the inside of you. And what you see outside of you, you see inside of you. It is visible and it is your garment. Hear me, you hearers, and learn of my words. You who
know me. I am the hearing that is attainable to everything. I am the speech that cannot be grasped. I am the name of the sound and the sound of the name. I am the sign of the letter and the designation of the division. Give heed then you hearers and you also the angels and those who have been sent and
you spirits who have arisen from the dead. For I am the one who alone exists. And I have no one who will judge me. For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins and incontinencies and disgraceful passions and fleeting pleasures which men embrace until they become sober and go up to their resting
place. And they will find me there and they will live and they will not die again. Thank you for listening. If these words resonated with you, subscribe for more journeys into the wisdom of the ages.
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