The Thunder, Perfect Mind is a poem discovered among the Gnostic manuscripts at Nag Hammadi in 1945.

For I am knowledge and ignorance. I am shame and boldness. I am shameless; I am ashamed. I am strength and I am fear. I am war and peace. —The Thunder, Perfect Mind [1] For it is I who am acquaintance: and lack of acquaintance. It is I who am reticence: and frankness. I am shameless: I am ashamed. I am strong: and I am afraid. It is I who am war: and peace. —The Thunder - Perfect Intellect, Lines 26-31 from another translation. [2]

Thunder Perfect Mind (the title is, more accurately, The Thunder - Perfect Intellect), takes the form of an extended, riddling monologue, in which an immanent saviour speaks a series of paradoxical statements concerning the divine feminine nature. These paradoxical utterances echo Greek identity riddles, a common poetic form in the Mediterranean. There are some translations to the right from the same section of the poem. Line numbering is different in different translations.

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