{ "item_title" : "Nothingless the Beginning", "item_author" : [" Siyabonga Mbambo "], "item_description" : "Before there was a beginning, there was not Nothing. There was Nothingless.What existed before God? What stirred in the silence before the first word was spoken? And why does the human soul ache with a longing for a home it cannot remember?Nothingless: The Beginning is a luminous work of mystical scripture, a Gnostic creation story told in the voice of an ancient sacred text. Drawing on the rich tradition of Gnostic cosmology, it reimagines the origin of all things, from the fullness that existed before existence to the spark of divine light hidden inside every human being.Nothingless is not emptiness. It is the Unwanting, the Unlacking, the Root that needs no soil. From it arises the first Thought, I am, and from that Thought the First Mirror, the Unbegotten Light, and the radiant Aeons who together form the Pleroma, the realm of Fullness.But the youngest Aeon, Sophia, longs to know what cannot be known. Her reaching gives birth to a shadow: Yaldabaoth, the Blind Maker, who shapes the material world from his mother's grief and declares himself the only God. He builds the Archons to guard the gates of heaven, and each gate is a forgetting.Yet a spark of true light slips into the world he made. It comes to rest in the first human, and it has been waiting inside us ever since.Inside this book you will discover: The mystery of Nothingless, the ground of being that precedes God, light, and time itselfThe birth of the Aeons and the song of the Pleroma, told in beautiful scriptural verseThe fall of Sophia, divine Wisdom, and the tragic origin of the material worldThe Blind Maker and his Archons, the false rulers who keep humanity asleepThe divine spark, the hidden light within the human soulThe path of Gnosis, the awakening that leads the spark home through the seven gatesWritten in numbered verses with the cadence of ancient scripture, Nothingless: The Beginning can be read as a meditation, a devotional text, a work of visionary fiction, or a doorway into the Gnostic imagination. It speaks to seekers, mystics, lovers of myth, and anyone who has ever sensed that this world is not the whole story.This is not a book of rules. It is a book of remembering.The world is a dream the Maker dreams in the dark. Gnosis is waking", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/742/9798177424149_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "16.99", "online_price" : "16.99", "our_price" : "16.99", "club_price" : "16.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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