Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
And thou art he who scattered away from me all the emanations of the
Self-willed, these which were oppressing me, and these which were
becoming enemy unto me. And the word which thy power said, He who gave
to me his wisdom over bonds to loosen them. That is the word which said
the Pistis Sophia, And he gave to me his wisdom, for me to be loosened
from the bonds of those emanations. And the word which thy power said,
He who struck the serpent which hath seven heads with my hands, [147^a]
and he made me stand upon his root, that I should blot out his seed.
That is the word which said the Pistis Sophia, And thou struckest the
serpent, he of the seven heads through my hands. And thou settest me up
upon his matter, thou destroyedst him that his seed should not rise up
from this hour. And the word which thy power said, And thou wast being
with me, and thou wast helping me. That is the word which said the
[147^b] Pistis Sophia, And thou wast being with me, thou art helping me
in all these (things). And the word which thy power said, And thy name
surrounded me in every Place. That is the word which said the Pistis
Sophia, And thy light surrounded me in all their Places. And the word
which said thy power, And thy right (hand) destroyed the poison of the
evil speaker. That is the word which said the Pistis Sophia, And through
thee were made powerless the emanations of the Self-willed, because thou
tookest away the light of their power from them. And the word which thy
power said, Thy hand opened the road of thy faithful (ones). That is the
word which said the Pistis Sophia, Thou directedst my road to bring me
out of the Chaos, because I believed thee. And the word which thy power
said, Thou redeemedst them out of the tombs, and thou removedst them out
of the midst of the embalmed-corpses. That is the word which said
[148^a] the Pistis Sophia, And thou redeemedst me out of the Chaos, and
thou removedst me out of the material darkness, namely, the emanations
of darkness which (are) in the Chaos, these whose light thou tookest
away from them. And the word which thy power said, Thou tookest away
bones being dead, thou clothedst them with a body, and those which move
not, thou gavest to them an energy of life. That is the word which said
the Pistis Sophia, And thou tookest away all my powers, these in which
there is not light, thou puttest in unto them a light being purified.
And all my members in which there is not light moving, thou gavest to
them a light of life from thy Height. And the word which thy power said,
Thy road became uncorruptness, with thy face. [148^b] That is the word
which said the Pistis Sophia, And thou directedst thy road for me and
(with, MS) the light of thy face became to me a life indestructible. And
the word which thy power said, Thou broughtest thy Aeon upon the
destruction, that they should loosen all the bonds. That is the word
which said the Pistis Sophia, Thou broughtest me even me, thy power,
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