mary and anticipation of things described otherwise later in the
MS. After it the writer (or writers) goes back and describes the
"Re-ordering" from the time that "the veils of the aeons were drawn"
from various points of view. Various Cosmic processes are delineated
symbolically, and their simultaneous working is not excluded.

(30) The Universal Man had fallen into bondage in the Fate-Sphere.

(31) I think that what we are to understand is, that the Man is raised
from His state of Mystical Death or Self-dispersion by the
Protogennetor (Son, First Parent), crowned with the Lights of Wisdom by
the Hidden Father "Who has no consort," and robed with cosmic life by
the Mother. Compare what has already been said about the Robe of Glory
and the outward signs of its descent at Pentecost. The work of the
Mantle would seem to symbolise the re-ordering work of the Church, the
"New Creation," the new impulse on its mystical side. Is
Protogennetor, then, a cryptic title of Christ? In a sense I think it
is, but there are other issues which are better discussed at a later
point.

The Title "Without King" recalls the Naasene Document and its "One is
the Race without a King which is born Above."

(32) The Seven Stratelatai, leaders or generals, are perhaps the seven
Planets.

(33) _Cp._ the Akhmim Codex: "She (Barbelo) is the First Thought, his
Image, she becometh the First Man; that is the Virginal Spirit, she of
the triple Manhood, the triple-powered one, the triple-named,
triple-born, the aeon which ages not, the Man-woman."

34. Who are the Mother and the three great hierarchs? It is tempting
to connect the three with the three traditional paths of Purgation,
Illumination and Union, Water, Fire and Spirit. The Propator, who
desires to turn the World to God, and who is, through the descent of a
particular power, the Father-Mother of the Spiritual Life to come, may
symbolise the process of Purgation and the Baptism of Water; the
Autopator, who utters the promises of Christ and who has the power of
an Ennead of initiation, may typify the Illuminative Life and the
Baptism of Fire; while the Protogennetor, robed in cosmic
consciousness, so that he can walk even the waters of the Primal Deep
(Noun), who draws forth finally from the material life, may represent
the inception of the Life of Union and the Baptism of the Spirit. All
this may be true, but, if I mistake not, there is more behind the veil
of symbolism, and it