Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
It happened therefore, Jesus having heard these words which said Maria,
he knew that having heard the disciples, they began to be silent, he
encouraged them, said he to them, Grieve not therefore, my disciples,
concerning the Mystery of the Ineffable, which ye think that ye will not
understand. Amen I say to you, Yours is that Mystery, and that of every
one who will hearken to you and renounce all the World with all the
matter which (is) in it, and renounce all evil thoughts which become in
them, and renounce all the cares of [202^b] this Aeon.
Now therefore I say to you, Every one who will renounce all the World
with all the (things) which (are) in it, and submit to the Godhead, that
Mystery is easy for them more than all the Mysteries of the kingdom of
the Light, and is fit to understand more than all of them, and is light
(_levis_) more than all of them. He who will come in unto the knowledge
of that Mystery is wont to renounce all this World with all the cares
which (are) in it. Because of this therefore I said unto you once, Every
one who is under care, and who toileth under his burden, come ye (close)
to me that I may give rest to you, for light is my burden [203^a] and
gentle is my yoke. Now therefore he who will receive that Mystery is
wont to renounce all the World and with the care of all the matter which
(is) in it. Because of this therefore my disciples grieve not at your
thoughts that that Mystery ye will not understand.
Amen I say to you, That Mystery is fit to understand more than all the
Mysteries: and Amen I say to you that that Mystery is yours with every
one who will renounce all the World with all the matter which (is) in
it. Now therefore hear, my disciples, and my friends and my brothers
that I may urge you unto the knowledge of the Mystery of the Ineffable.
These (things) I speak with you [203^b], because I have come to say unto
you the whole knowledge about the Distribution of the Universe, because
the Distribution is (his) knowledge. But now therefore hear that I may
speak with you in advance concerning the knowledge of that Mystery:
because that Mystery indeed is that which knoweth because of what
despoiled themselves the five Helpers, and because of what they
proceeded out of the Fatherless (ones). And that Mystery indeed is that
which knoweth because of what despoiled himself him the great Light of
the Lights, and because of what he (they, MS) proceeded out of the
Fatherless (ones), and that Mystery indeed is that which knoweth because
of what despoiled himself the First precept, and because of what he
separated the seven Mysteries, and because of what also they called it
(him, MS), the First [204^a] precept. And because of what he (they, MS)
proceeded out of the Fatherless (ones). And that Mystery indeed is that
which knoweth because of what despoiled himself the great Light of the
Marks of Light, and because of what he stood (up) without emanation, and
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