The Thunder, Perfect Mind Av Lee (Lee Lozowick) Lozowick

THE THUNDER, PERFECT MIND is one of many significant texts known as The Nag Hammadi Library, discovered in Egypt in 1945 and dated as approximately written around 325 CE. Similar to the form of certain Greek epics, the piece is repetitive and parallel in structure, paradoxical and confrontive in content, and written or spoken in a first-person voice. The author''s repeated declaration "I AM." is clearly indicative of its narrator''s Divine nature one who possesses the "Perfect Mind" or "Perfect Intellect"; and one who passionately enjoins her hearers and readers to "wake up," "give heed," and "pay attention."This Divine Voice is clearly Feminine, referring to "I am ''she''" or "I am the ''wife'' or ''mother''" more than 25 times in the course of the short work, yet is far from comforting or sweet in its declarations. Rather this Voice "thunders," unabashedly, offering contradictions and the enigma of opposites in almost every line. It is this paradoxical nature of its content and its u