The beginners guide to the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves.

#11 The Curse of the Aborted Foetus

A veil exists between the world above [Pleroma], and the realms that are below [Kenoma]; and shadow (haibe) came into being beneath the veil. Some of the shadow became matter, and was projected apart. And what Sophia created became a product in the matter, like an aborted fetus (houhai).

– The Hypostasis of the Archons, 94: 5 – 15