The Thunder, Perfect Mind: An Ancient Riddle of Beauty and Paradox

The Thunder, Perfect Mind is an exhortatory poem discovered among the Gnostic manuscripts in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945. The Thunder, Perfect Mind (the title may alternately be translated as The Thunder, Perfect Intellect) takes the form of an extended, riddling monologue in which an immanent divine savior speaks a series of paradoxical statements alternating between first-person assertions of identity and direct address to the audience.