{"product_id":"loa-the-thunder-perfect-mind","title":"The Thunder, Perfect Mind","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if a sacred voice calls herself both wisdom and foolishness, the first and the last?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Thunder, Perfect Mind is a short ancient poem spoken by a single female voice. She names herself through opposites: mother and daughter, bride and bridegroom, silence and word. Each claim unsettles the one before it. Rather than tell a story, the poem asks you to listen to a speaker who refuses any simple identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts author is unknown. The poem survives in a single Coptic copy found near Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945. Within its lines, the speaker addresses those who hear her and those who do not. Read alongside Gnostic thought, her riddles invite reflection on spiritual knowledge and the limits of dividing existence into opposites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA voice beyond categories\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet a female speaker whose shifting claims resist every neat definition you bring.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRiddles that hold you\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow statements that place wisdom beside foolishness and honor beside shame.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe call to listen\u003c\/strong\u003e – Hear a voice address both those who recognize her and those who do not.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoetry without a plot\u003c\/strong\u003e – Let an extended monologue draw your attention through repetition, contradiction, and direct address.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuestions of sacred identity\u003c\/strong\u003e – Consider why this elusive speaker continues to invite different scholarly accounts of her sources.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers of ancient religion, early Christian history, women in sacred writing, and poetry that asks you to dwell with riddles rather than follow a plot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now and meet a voice that will not settle into a single name.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"eBook","offer_id":58111221432668,"sku":"LOA-64-EB","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":58111221465436,"sku":"LOA-64-AU","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":58113778188636,"sku":"LOA-64-PB","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/64.jpg?v=1781944941","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/de\/products\/loa-the-thunder-perfect-mind","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}