(a gnostic poem, circa ? B.C.)
I am the first and the last.
I am the honoured one and the scorned one.
I am the whore and the holy one.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am she whose wedding is great.
I am a universal lover of life.
I am (the mother) and the daughter.
I am the members of my mother….
I am the silence that is incomprehensible
And the idea whose remembrance is frequent.
I am the voice whose sound is manifold
And the word whose appearance is multiple.
I am knowledge and ignorance.
I am the utterance of my name.