ABSTRACT
Gnostic cosmology is, primarily, a form of mitigated dualism, although it can also be considered to contain, secondarily, a form of absolute dualism. Second, in what might be considered the corresponding horizontal axis, there is an absolute dualism in terms of the androgynous, male/female, aeonic pairs, or syzygies, which have emanated from the Pleroma and exist in binary opposition to one another. The Gnostics are invariably categorised–often pejoratively–as being dualist, and this designation, minus the deprecation, is, by and large, correct. However, the Gnostic tradition is no more dualistic than Judaeo-Christianity which teaches that, in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light that was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
