Thunder, Perfect Mind

For I am the first and the last.

I am the honored one and the scorned one.

I am the whore and the holy one.

I am the wife and the virgin . . .

I am the bride and the bridegroom,

   and it is my husband who begot me.

I am the barren one,

   and many are her sons . . .

I am knowledge and ignorance . . .

I am foolish and I am wise . . .

I am the one whom they call life

   and you have called Death

I am the silence that is incomprehensible . . .

I am the utterance of my name.

- Poem found among Lost Gospels at Nag Hammadi

And Mo'ses said unto God, behold,

when I come unto the children of Is'ra-el

and shall say unto them,

The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you:

and they shall say to me,

What is his name?

what shall I say unto them?

And God said unto Mo'ses,

I AM THAT I AM:

And he said,

Thou shalt say unto the children of Is'ra-el,

I AM hath sent me unto you.

- Exodus III, 13-14