Barbēlō (Greek: Βαρβηλώ) [1] refers to the first emanation of God in several forms of Gnostic cosmogony. Barbēlō is often depicted as a supreme female principle, the single passive antecedent of creation in its manifold.

Barbelo is the name given to the first entity to arise from God in the literature of the classic Gnostics. After God, she’s the foremost inhabitant of the Pleroma, the Gnostic name for Heaven. God doesn’t “create” Barbelo per se; instead, she comes from him by some indirect means.

Barbelo, also known as the Goddess of Ineffability, the Father-Mother, Goddess of Love and Creation, Mother Goddess, and the Triple Androgynes Name, is the supreme Goddess of Creation and the co-creator of the Megaverse alongside God.

Barbelo was also called “Pronoia,” “Forethought,” because she was the first thought of the Father. Barbelo asked for the Father to grant her Foreknowledge, Incorruptibility, Life Eternal, and Truth.

The first is Barbelo, whom the Secret Book of John identifies with the Holy Spirit and the divine Mother of Christ. After Christ and several other entities who are essentially angels, the last being to emerge from God is Wisdom (or, in Greek, Sophia).

(eternal entity or age) named Barbelo and an unnameable Father, perhaps to be understood as female and male aspects, respectively, of the highest god. In any event, the Father and Barbelo generate a divine family of entities, each of which is a mythic personification of …

barbelo conceives The father gazed into Barbelo, with the pure light surrounding the invisible spirit, and its radiance. Barbelo conceived from it, and it produced a spark of light similar to the blessed light but not as great.

Barbelo is a goddess in Gnosticsm. She is also called Thought, Providence, Forethought, or Foreknowledge. She is believed to be the first emanation of Bythos. In the Apocryphon of John, a writing in the Nag Hammadi Library, Barbelo is described as "The first power, the glory, Barbelo, the perfect glory in the aions, the glory of the revelation."

Barbelo 2 The Gnostic term "Barbēlō" (Greek: Βαρβηλώ)[2] refers to the first emanation of God in several forms of Gnostic cosmogony. Barbēlō is often depicted as a supreme female principle, the single passive antecedent of creation in its manifoldness.

Barbelo is a power that inhabits a part of the ingenerateness and exists eternally, seeking after the Triple-Powered Spirit. Barbelo lacks the unity of the Triple-Powered Spirit, but she became distinct and perfect because she is an all-perfect instance of contemplation.