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It all finally becomes clear. This episode finishes up our deep dive into the Tripartite Tractate’s explanation of the Third Order of Powers. We learn about their relationship to the Christ, the ALL, the Fullness and the Father, and how they go about their job of redeeming us Second Order Powers and the Demiurge.
The Third Order is called the aeon, the place, “the thought of the Logos who had returned to his stability.” Known also as the Synagogue of Salvation, the storehouse, the Bride, the Kingdom, the Church, the image of the light. It is set above the Second Order and the Deficiency. It has the form of matter but the constitution of the Christ. Each one containing the Pleroma of the ALL. These are the manifest images of the living visages. Not arising from division but from the unity of the Aeons of the Father and the good original thought that existed prior to the rise of Ego.
While the Second Order Powers each arose as the countenance of a single Aeon, the Third Order Powers are “in harmony” and resemble the entire assembly of indivisible light. The Third Order Powers “have not yet come to be.” They are kept pure and joyful, the guarded seed of the promise awaiting their mission of coming with the Savior. They are “first in knowledge and glory of the Father. And that knowledge is freedom and release from captivity. They will proclaim the coming of the Savior to both angels and men. The Third Order will be brought forth from the unified ALL with full remembrance of the Father to prepare the way for salvation and redemption.”
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