Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
It happened, Jesus having finished saying these words unto his
disciples, came forward Iohan(nes), said he to Jesus, My Lord and my
Saviour, command to me also, that I may speak in thy presence, and be
not angry with me seeking after everything in an exactness with a
certainty, because that, my Lord, in a promise thou promisedst to me to
reveal everything which I shall seek from thee. Now therefore my Lord,
hide not anything from us at all in [189^a] the thing which we shall
seek from thee.
But answered Jesus in great mercy, said he to Iohannes, Thou also, the
happy Iohannes and the beloved, I command to thee for to say the word
which thou willest, and I shall reveal to thee in face against face
without parable, and I shall say to thee every thing which thou wilt
seek after (them) in an exactness with a certainty. Answered Iohannes,
said he to Jesus, My Lord, then the Place in which each received the
mystery even unto it he is about to remain, and he hath not authority to
go in unto another array which (is) above him, nor hath he authority to
come unto the arrays which (are) below him. Answered Jesus, said he to
Iohannes, Fairly (done) however at least because ye seek after
everything in an exactness with a certainty. [189^b] But now therefore,
Johannes hear, that I may speak with thee, Every one who receiveth
mystery of the Light, the Place unto which each receiveth mystery he is
about to remain in it, and he hath not the authority for to come unto
the Height unto the array which is above him, so that he who receive
mystery in the First precept hath the authority for to come unto the
arrays which (are) below him, namely, all the arrays of the third Space.
But he hath not the authority for to come unto the Height, unto the
arrays which are above him. And he who will receive the mysteries of the
First Mystery, namely, the twenty-fourth Mystery (reckoning) outwards,
and that is the head of the first Space which (is) outside. And he hath
the authority for to come unto all the arrays which (are) outside of
him; but he hath not the authority for to come unto the Places which
(are) above him, [190^a] or for to move about in them. And those who
receive mystery in the arrays of the twenty-fourth Mystery, the Place in
which each received mystery, he is about to go even unto it, and he will
become having the authority to move about in all the arrays with the
Spaces which (are) outside him. But he hath not the authority for to go
unto the arrays which (are) above him, or for to move about in them. And
he who received mystery in the arrays of the First Mystery which (is) in
the third Space, hath the authority for to come unto all the arrays
which (are) below him, and for to move about in all of them; but he hath
not indeed the authority for to go unto the Places which (are) above
him, or for to move about in them. And he who receiveth mystery in the
first Triple spirit, this who ruleth over the twenty-four [190^b]
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