Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
who (is) in their Place; he, with the Virgin of the Light, with his
twelve Deacons, this from whom ye received shape, and ye received the
power out of them, they will also all become Kings: with the first
Saviour of the first Voice in the Place of the souls of those who will
receive the First Mystery of the First Mystery in the Inheritances of
the Light. And with the fifteen Helpers of the seven Virgins of the
Light, these who become in the Middle will be distributed in the Places
of the twelve Saviours, [181^b] with the others also, Angels of the
Middle, each according to his glory, and (shall) be kings with me in the
Inheritances of the Light. And I, I shall rule over all of them in the
Inheritances of the Light.
These therefore, all which I said to you will not happen in this time,
but they are about to happen in the Consummation of the Aeon, namely,
the dissolution of the Universe. And that is the whole dissolution of
the numbering of the perfect souls of the Inheritances of the Light.
Before therefore the Consummation these (things) which I said to you
will not happen. But each will happen in his Place in which they put him
from at first, until they complete the numbering of the collection
[182^a] of the perfect souls. The seven (seventh, MS) Voices with the
five (fifth, MS) Trees, and with the three Amens, and with the
Twin-saviours with the nine Guards, and with the twelve Saviours, and
with those of the Place of those of the Right (hand), and with those of
the Place of the Middle, each will remain in the Place in which they put
them, until mount up all the numbering of the perfect of the souls of
the Inheritances of the Light. And all the Rulers also who repented,
they will remain also in the Place in which they put them, until mount
up all the numbering of the souls of the Light: they are coming all each
in their time in which she receives Mystery. And they will precede all
the Rulers who repented. [182^b] And they are coming unto the Place of
those of the Middle, and those of the Middle will baptise them (with)
the spiritual unction, and seal them with the seal of their mystery and
they will pass through in unto those of all Places of the Middle, and
they will pass through in to the Place of those of (the) Right (hand),
and the interior of the Place of the nine Guards, and the interior of
the Place of the Twin-saviours, and the interior of the Place of the
three Amens, with the twelve Saviours, and the interior of the five
Trees, with the seven Voices, each giving to them their seal of their
mysteries, and all (will) make their entry, and go unto the Place of the
Inheritances [183^a] of the Light: and each (will) remain in the Place
up to which he received mysteries in the Inheritances of the Light, in
one word, all the souls of the mankind, these who will receive the
mysteries of the Light will precede all the Rulers who repented, and
they will precede those of all the Places of those of the Middle, with
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