mandaean gnosticism
This is a secret mystery and explenation of the Body, that is esoteric and not revealed, which I have copied who am poor, lowly, striving and childlike, a slave who is all sin. I am Zakia-Zihrun.
The earth is a Body and air is the soul therein. And its burgeonings-forth are its bones and the rivers are its veins its blood is the ocean and its womb... The copper earth is the legs upon which the body is supported, and its supporting columns are in the earth... the body and its size, its convexity and its extent ...and the hair of the head, the eyebrows and eyelashes, hair beneath the buttocs and breasts are two worlds and the whole trunk is two worlds.
And the male organ is vigorous in its strength and imperial majesty: the body, the earth and heavens and the worlds of light and darkness, are equipped therewith. It is a strong implement, and kingliness resembles it, for the whole Body and the kings are safeguarded thereby and no trees, birds, animals, cattle, or running waters can escape its compulsion.
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For the male organ is the channel of mysteries, it is a wellspring and hair comes out from it; thereby the senses are held. For it is a great mystery to those who perform its function; who erect it in purity and not to excess. As for those who deprave it, they are cast from the height down to hte uttermost limit of the worlds. The eye is not opened which beholds all worlds; their eyes are dazzled an they behold them not!
So, when you release seed and have been orderly in the act its fount fell upon the mystery of the womb within her, which is responsive to it, seed and blood love one another and seek their vehicle; a soul, a body, and a vital spirit.
And by them kings and regents, yea and the whole world are created. And so, when they approach one another, soul and spirit rejoice at that mystery. As the male seed neared the mystery of the womb, the soul rejoiced and addressed a hymn to it and said:
In the Name of the Great Life!
from: the Other Bible, ISBN 0-06-250031-7 (1984)Chapter: Creation of the world and the alien man (Mandean Gnosticism)(p. 139)
