Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
Mysteries all together, these which rule over the Space of the First
mystery, these whose Place I shall say unto you in the Distribution of
the Universe. He who will receive, therefore, the mystery of that Triple
spirit hath the authority for to come below unto all the arrays, which
(are) below him, but he hath not the authority for to go unto the
Height, unto the arrays above him, namely, all the arrays of the Space
of the Ineffable. And he who received the mystery of the second Triple
spirit is having the authority for to come unto all the arrays of the
first Triple spirit, and to move about in them all with all their arrays
in which they become; but he hath not the authority for to go unto the
arrays [191^a] of the third Triple spirit (which are higher). And he who
received the mystery of the third Triple spirit, this who ruleth over
the three (third, MS) Triple spirits with the three Spaces all together
of the First Mystery, (hath authority to go unto all the Places below
him) but he hath not the authority for to go unto the Height, unto the
arrays which are above him, namely, the arrays of the Space of the
Ineffable. And he who received the absolute Mystery of the First Mystery
of the Ineffable, namely, the twelve Mysteries all together of the First
Mystery, these which rule over all the Spaces of the First Mystery. He
who will receive, therefore, that mystery hath the authority for to move
about in all the arrays of the Spaces of the three Triple spirits and
with the three [191^b] Spaces of the First Mystery, and with all their
arrays. And he hath the authority for to move about in all the arrays of
the Inheritances of the Light, for to move about in them from without
out unto within and from within in unto without and from above unto
below and from below unto above, and from the height unto the depth, and
from the depth unto the height, and from the length unto the breadth,
and from the breadth unto the length, in one word, he hath the authority
to move about in all the Places of the Inheritances of the Light. And he
hath the authority for to remain in the Place which he willeth in the
Inheritance of the Kingdom of the Light. And Amen I say unto you that
man in the dissolution of the World will become [192^a] reigning over
all the arrays of the Inheritance. And he who will receive the Mystery
of the Ineffable, that one which is I. That Mystery, indeed, is that
which knoweth because of what the Darkness became, and because of what
became the Light. And that Mystery indeed is that which knoweth because
of what the Darkness of the Darknesses became, and because of what the
Light of the Lights became. And that Mystery indeed is that which
knoweth because of what the Chaoses became, and because of what became
the Treasury of the Light. And that Mystery indeed is that which knoweth
because of what the Judgments became, and because of what became the
Land of the Light with the Place of the Inheritances of the Light. And
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