Epinoia of the Light

Epinoia of the Light" from Gnostic Christianity

Her main function is to awaken, or preserve hidden knowledge, as a means of rectifying ignorance and forgetfulness. “I am the life of my Epinoia that dwells within every Power and every eternal movement, and (in) invisible Lights and within the Archons and Angels and Demons, and every soul dwelling in Tartaros, and (in) every material soul. I dwell in those who came to be. I move in everyone and I delve into them all. I walk uprightly, and those who sleep, I awaken. And I am the sight of those who dwell in sleep.” Ennoia (or Epinoia) is one of the principle names given to the Mother in the Gnostic trinity of Father, Mother and Son. In the beginning, the One thought upon itself. The result of that mental reflection was a two-fold extension of itself as the Father, who is the mind or thinking (Nous or Noesis) and as the Mother, who is the thought (Ennoia or Noeseos). These two then produced the Son (also Nous or Noesis), who completed the One’s reflection upon itself. Through the Son, the thinking (Noesis or Nous) had a thought (Noeseos or Ennoia) of itself thinking (Noesis or Nous).