The distinction between pain and suffering
“
But before everything (else), know thy birth,
know thyself, that is, from what substance
you are, or from what form, or from what species.
Understand that you have come from three races:
from the earth, from the formed, and from the created.
The body has come into being from the earth with an earthly substance,
but the formed, for the sake of the soul,
has come into being from the thought of the divine.
The created, however, is the mind, which has come into being
in conformity with the image of God.
”
—
Teachings of Silvanus, Nag Hammadi Text.
