Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 2 (of 2)Legge, Francis
Religion
Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : $b being studies in religious history from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D., Vol. 2 (of 2)
Legge, Francis
Christianity and other religions; Religions
“It shall pass through all the Places of the Archons and all the
Places of the emanations of light, nor shall it make any
announcement nor defence nor give in any symbol; for no Power of the
Archons nor of the emanations of light can draw nigh to that soul.
But all the Places of the Archons and of the emanations of light
shall sing praises, being filled with fear at the flood of light
which clothes that soul, until it shall have passed through them
all, and have come into the Place of the inheritance of the mystery
which it has received, which is the mystery of the sole Ineffable
One, and shall have become united with his members[582].”
He goes on to explain that the recipient of this mystery shall be higher
than angels, archangels, and than even all the Powers of the
Treasure-house of Light and those which are below it:
“He is a man in the Cosmos; but he is a king in the light. He is a
man in the Cosmos, but he is not of the Cosmos, and verily I say
unto you, that man is myself and I am that man.”
“And, in the dissolution of the Cosmos, when the universe shall be
caught up, and when the number of perfect souls shall be caught up,
and when I am become king in the middle of the last Parastates, and
when I am king over all the emanations of light, and over the Seven
Amen, and the Five Trees, and the Three Amen, and the Nine Guards,
and over the Boy of a Boy, that is to say the Twin Saviours, and
when I am king over the Twelve Saviours and all the numbers of
perfect souls who have received the mystery of light, then all the
men who have received the mystery of that Ineffable One shall be
kings with me, and shall sit on my right hand and on my left in my
kingdom. Verily I say unto you, Those men are I and I am those men.
Wherefore I said unto you aforetime: You shall sit upon thrones on
my right hand and on my left in my kingdom and shall reign with me.
Wherefore I have not spared myself, nor have I been ashamed to call
you my brethren and my companions, seeing that you will be
fellow-kings with me in my kingdom. These things, therefore, I said
unto you, knowing that I should give unto you the mystery of that
Ineffable One, and that mystery is I and I am that mystery[583].”
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