Thunder, Perfect Mind · 2 of 11

First “I Am” Speech

1.For I am the first and the last.

2.I am the honored and the scorned.

3.I am the whore and the holy.

4.I am the wife and the virgin.

5.I am [the mother] and the daughter.

6.I am the limbs of my mother. I am the barren one whose children are many.

7.I am she whose wedding is great, and I have taken no husband.

8.I am the midwife and she who bears not.

9.I am the comfort after my labor pains.

10.I am the bride and the bridegroom, and my husband gave birth to me.

11.I am the mother of my father and the sister of my husband, and he is my offspring.

12.I am the servant of him who possessed me. I am the ruler of my offspring, who, however, [gave birth to me] before the day of my birth.

13.And he is my offspring born [on] time, and my power is from him.

14.I am the staff of his power during his youth, [and] he is my rod when I am old, and whatever he wants will come to pass for me.

15.I am the silence that is incomprehensible and the thought whose remembrance is great.

16.I am the voice whose sound is manifold and the word whose appearances are many.

17.I am the utterance of my name.