Those who do not hate their father and mother as I do
cannot be my students,
and those who do not love their father and mother as I do
cannot be my students.
For my mother gave me falsehood,
but my true mother gave me life.

In Gnosticism, Barbelo is the first emanation and supreme female principle of the unnameable, invisible God (the Monad).

Key Aspects of Barbelo

Barbelo is born when the transcendent God reflects upon himself or overflows with thought. She represents God's self-knowledge—the moment the infinite becomes conscious of its own infinity.

She is described as androgynous (both male and female), often called the "Mother-Father," the "First Human," or the "Triple-Powered/Triple-Named One" in texts like the Apocryphon of John.

She is the foremost inhabitant of the Pleroma (the divine, full spiritual realm) and acts as the womb and generator of subsequent divine entities, or Aeons.