Question about masculinity/femininity.
Hello! I’ve been recently getting into Gnosticism, but I got a question I can’t seem to figure out.
From what I can understand, Monad emanated aeons, who are described as being androgynous. The aeons form the pleroma through their syzygy, which is described as being male-female?
In the tale of Sophia and the demiurge, she tries to emanate on her own, without her male counterpart, in which the demiurge comes from. This just seems to represent a parallel to the tale of Eve. I can’t seem to understand why monad emanates female-male aeons, when there could be no female-male, just aeon? I hope my point/question gets across.
Because despite Sophia being androgynous, it seems that she’s mostly referred to as mainly feminine, so it just seems like a way to make femininity seem inferior again?