At this crisis, to prevent another commotion amongst the Æons, by the will of the Supreme Father, the Mind or Only‐begotten produced another pair, the Christ and the Holy Spirit; the former of whom gave them fully to understand that it was impossible to comprehend the First Cause, but that what could be comprehended of him was revealed in the Only‐begotten, whom he taught them to contemplate(670); whilst the latter put them all upon an equality with each other, and made them all, according to their sex, Minds, Words, Men, and Christs, or Truths, Lives, Churches, and Spirits. By this means they were reduced to a state of repose, and betook themselves to magnify the Great First Father. In token whereof they all united to produce one perfect being, Jesus, called also the Saviour, the Christ, the Word, and the All, together with angels his attendants(671). But we must return to the personified Longing of Wisdom, whom we shall have to know henceforth under the name of Achamoth(672), which is merely a corruption of the Hebrew word for wisdom, חכמות, _Chokmoth_, or the same word in some kindred dialect, omitting the aspirate ח. She, it must be remembered, was separated from the Celestial Fulness by Ὅρος, the personal Barrier, the Σταυρὸς or Stake. But the Christ took pity on her, and reaching forth over the Barrier, (διὰ τοῦ Σταυροῦ ἐπεκταθεὶς, a strange perversion and accommodation of evangelical expressions to their system,) gave her a _natural_ life, and left with her a _savour_ of immortality, but did not communicate to her that knowledge, which in their system is the principle of _spiritual_ life. What he did leave, however, worked its effect. It led her to seek after him who had deposited it in her, and being restrained by the Barrier, she sustained various feelings, sorrow, and fear, and consternation, all accompanied by ignorance of all above her, and a perpetual turning towards him who had given her life, and pleasure in thinking of the glimpse of light which had been permitted to her(673). From the tumult within her sprung various productions; being however in the whole, the Creator of the world and all created things, of which we shall see more hereafter(674). She had scarcely recovered from this state of perturbation, when the Christ sent down to her the Paraclete; not the offspring of Man and the Church, but that perfect being produced by the Æons conjointly, called likewise the Saviour(675), having power given him over all things below, and accompanied by his angels. He separated her from all the products of her perturbation, and endued her with that knowledge which before she possessed not. He likewise separated her productions definitely into two species of substance, one radically bad, the other capable of being either good or evil; the one material, the other animate; to which she speedily added another, spiritual in its nature, conceived from joyful contemplation of the angel‐attendants of the Saviour(676).