(“bar-BEE-low”) the Barbelo Aeon stands upon three primal powers—Existence, Vitality, and Mentality (or Blessedness)—and contains the archetypes of all things (Zostrianos). The name Barbelo links the words “God” and “four” and refers to the feminine pole of the divine. “We are a shadow of you,” states an invocation to Her from The Three Steles of Seth, “even as you are already a shadow of the preexistent one.”