Primal Man
 Teachings from Miryai Mt.
In the Living Gods, Let the hallowed Light of Transcendent Truth be praised. Let the Sweet Mystery of Miryai awaken in the heart of hearts.

Beloved, the Primal Man is He who was at the beginning, the Firstborn, He who is called Hibil in the ancient scrolls. He represents the ultimate origin of our race, and by our race I mean the spiritual seed that exists in exile here, awaiting their return to their ultimate origins. When the prefect pure Father and Mother of Light united in the Paradise of Light Their union produced the Primal Pair -- the Primal Man and the Primal Woman. By Primal is meant primeval, the earliest stage in evolutionary development. For the Primal Pair are the beginning, the pre earthly spiritual Adam and Eve, the first or foremost offspring of the ultimate Mother-Father union above. It is a mistake to think only of the male side of the Primal Pair, for without the Primal Woman the Primal Man is without purpose. In the Mythos of our origins they work as one, and by Mythos I mean the underlying system of beliefs, understandings and gnosis bequeathed to us by the Messengers of Light like Mar Mani, encoded in sacred scroll, that account for us the spiritual history of both the cosmos as well as our place within it. The Mythos I speak of is not a myth in the sense of a legendary made up tale, but an account of happenings in the spiritual realms that are particularly relevant to the Gnostic race, and particularly meaningful to individual Gnostics because it contains the pattern and plan of our own involution and evolution, as well as the allegorical keys that enable us to delve ever deeper into our own origins and makeup. The Mythos is the plan and pattern of our existence and eventual exaltation, conveyed to us in story form, a form of a group or cultural dream containing the sum total of all the insights and revelations given to the gnostic race from the beginning. It is not so much an account of the history of the universe, but an allegorical account of our own personal history and unconscious makeup, the structure of our psyche and the keys that allow it to unfold to its true potential. In this Mythos the Primal Man and Primal Woman are a metaphor for our True Self, our ultimate Self, separate from the forces that created us yet still one with Them. In the story of the Primal Pair we hear of Their illustrious uniqueness, but we also hear of Their fall from their original purity, their descent to darker realms, and their eventual entrapment by the forces of darkness. Their entrapment by matter represents our present stage of evolution, or the stage we were in before we began our spiritual journey to regain our once lost purity. Every gnostic male has a Primal Man within them, and every gnostic female has a Primal Woman within them, and until the time when these two become one, each of them as individuals contains not only their own Primal Self, but also the echo of the other. This echo, or ghost image of the other, exists on an unconscious level, compensating for our missing half, stirring us toward reunion with our opposite, animating our dreams and influencing our conscious decisions. It is the unconscious feminine side of a man and the unconscious masculine side of a woman. The ultimate reunion and merger of the Primal Pair into the unity and oneness they shared in the beginning occurs in the ultimate act of the Mythos journey, but in this initial act they separate and descend, becoming less than they were in the beginning. In the 223rd Manichaean Bema Psalm we encounter the Primal Man as Lamb, and the Primal Woman as a five powered Maiden. The Maiden is called his "soul", but he is her "spirit", and together they make up a single unified Primal Self:
 

"Let us worship the Spirit of the Paraclete. Let us bless our Lord Yeshua who has sent to us the Spirit of Truth.
He came and separated us from the Error of the world, he brought us a mirror, we looked, we saw the Universe in it.
When the Holy Spirit came he revealed to us the way of Truth and taught us that there are two Natures, that of Light and that of Darkness, separate one from the other from the beginning.
The Kingdom of Light, on the one hand, consisted in five Greatnesses, and they are the Father and his twelve Aeons and the Aeons of the Aeons, the Living Air, the Land of Light, the great Spirit breathing in them, nourishing them with his Light.
But the Kingdom of Darkness consists of five store-houses, which are Smoke and Fire and Wind and Water and Darkness; their Counsel creeping in them, moving them and inciting them to make war with one another.
Now as they were making war with one another they dared to make an attempt upon the Land of Light thinking that they would be able to conquer it. But they know not that which they have thought to do they will bring down upon their own heads.
But there was a multitude of angels in the Land of the Light, having the power to go forth to subdue the enemy of the Father, whom it pleased that by his Word that he would send, he should subdue the rebels who desired to exalt themselves above that which was more exalted than they.


Like into a shepherd that shall see a lion coming to destroy his sheep-fold: for he uses guile and takes a lamb and sets it as a snare that he may catch him by it; for by a single lamb he saves his sheep-fold. After-these things he heals the lamb that has been wounded by the lion: 
This too is the way of the Father, who sent his strong son; and he produced from himself his Maiden equipped with five powers, that she might fight against the five abysses of the Dark. When the Watcher stood in the boundaries of light, he showed to them his Maiden who is his soul; they bestirred themselves in their abyss, desiring to exalt themselves over her, they opened their mouth desiring to swallow her. 
He held her power fast, he spread her over them, like nets over fishes, he made her rain down upon them like purified clouds of water, she thrust herself within them like piercing lightning.
She crept in their inward parts, she bound them all, they not knowing it.
 

When the First Man had finished his war the Father sent his second son.
He came and helped his brother out of the abyss; he established this whole world out of the mixture that took place of the Light and the Darkness.
He spread out all the powers of the abyss to ten heavens and eight earths, he shut them up into this world once, he made it a prison too for all the powers of Darkness, it is also a place of purification for the Soul that was swallowed in them.
The sun and moon he founded, he set them on high, to purify the Soul. Daily they take up the refined part to the height, but the dregs however they erase . . . . mixed, they convey [it above and below.
This whole world stands firm for a season, there being a great building which is being built outside this world.
So Soon as that builder shall finish, the whole world will be dissolved and set on fire that the fire may smelt it away-
All life, the relic of Light wheresoever it be, he will gather to himself and of it depict an image And the counsel of death too, all the Darkness, he will gather together and make a likeness of its very self, it and the] Ruler.
In a moment the Living Spirit will come . . . . . . . . . . . . he will succor the Light.
But the counsel of death and the Darkness he will shut up in the dwelling that was established for it, that it might he bound in it for ever.
There is no other means to bind the Enemy save this means; for he will not be received to the Light because he is a stranger to it; nor again can he be left in his land of Darkness, that he may not wage a war greater than the first.
A new Aeon will be built in the place of the world that shall dissolve, that in it the powers of the Light may reign, because they have performed and fulfilled the will of the Father entire, they have subdued the hated one, they have . . . . . . . .over him for ever.
This is the Gnosis of Mani, let us worship him and bless him. Blessed is he every man that shall trust in him, for he it is shall live with all the Righteous."

And thus it is, Amen....