Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
It happened therefore, the Pistis Sophia having heard these words, I
saying them to her, she rejoiced in great joy. But I, I left her in the
Place which is below the thirteenth Aeon. I went unto the light, I
ceased from being with her. But all these words was the First Mystery
saying to the disciples, that they happened to the Pistis Sophia. And he
was sitting upon the hill of the Olives, saying all these words in the
midst of the disciples.
But he added also, said he to them, But it happened also [158^a] after
all these (things) while I am being in the World of the mankind, sitting
by the road which is this Place, which is the mountain of the Olives,
before that they dispatched my vesture, this which I left in the
twenty-fourth Mystery (reckoning) from within, but the First itself it
is (reckoning) from without, this which is that, the great
Uncontainable, this in which I shone, and before that I went unto the
Height to receive my other two vestures: sitting by you in this Place,
namely, the mountain of the Olives, was fulfilled the time which I said
to the Pistis Sophia, Will oppress thee the Adamas with all his Rulers.
It happened therefore, having happened that [158^b] time, but I, I was
becoming in the World of the mankind, sitting by you in this place which
is the mountain of the Olives, looked the Adamas out of the twelve
Aeons, he looked down unto the Place of the Chaos, he saw his power
demonic which (is) in the Chaos, in which there is not light at all,
because I had taken away its light from it: and he saw it being
darkness, and it was not possible to come unto his Place which is the
twelve Aeons. Remembered also the Adamas (about) the Pistis Sophia, and
he was angry with her greatly greatly, thinking that it (is) she who
restrained his power in the Chaos. [159^a] And thinking that it (is) she
who took away its light from it, and he was exasperated greatly, and he
added anger upon anger: he emanated out of him an emanation of darkness,
and with another cruel (power) of evil Chaos, that he might disturb the
Pistis Sophia with them.
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