Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
knoweth because of what all these became, of those which I said, and in
boldness, because of which all these became. And he is the Mystery which
(is) in all these, and he is all their coming out, and he is all their
catching up, and he is all their setting up. And the Mystery of the
Ineffable, he is the Mystery which is in all these, which I said unto
[210^a] you, and with those which I shall say unto you in the
Distribution of the Universe, and he is the Mystery which is in all
these: and he is the only Mystery of the Ineffable, and the knowledge of
all these (things) which I said to you, and with those which I shall say
unto you: with those which I said not unto you, all these I shall say
unto you in the Distribution of the Universe, with all their knowledge
one upon another, because of what they became. That is the one word of
the Ineffable. And I shall say unto you the Distribution of all their
mysteries, with the type of each of them, with the manner of their
completing in all their figures, and I shall say unto you the mystery of
the Only One [210^b], the Ineffable, with all its (his, MS thus again)
types, with all its figures; and with all its arrangements, because of
what indeed it proceeded out of the last limb of the Ineffable, because
that mystery is all their setting up. And that mystery of the Ineffable
is also (the) one only word which also becometh in the language of the
Ineffable, and that is the arrangement of the explanation of every word
which I said unto you. And he who will receive the one word of that
mystery, this which I shall say unto you now with all its (his, MS thus
again) types with all its figures, with the manner of completing its
mystery: because that ye are the perfect of all-perfect. And ye are that
which will complete all knowledge [211^a] of that mystery with all its
arrangement with its...: because ye are those to whom they entrusted
every mystery. Hear therefore now, that I may say unto you that mystery
which is this, He who will receive therefore the one word of the
mystery, this which I said unto you, whenever he should come out the
body of the matter of the Rulers, and should come the Receivers of
Contentious (ones), and they should loosen him out of the body of the
matter of the Rulers of the Receivers of Contentious (ones), namely,
they are wont to loosen every soul which cometh out of the body. If
therefore the Receivers of Contentious (ones) should loosen the soul
which received this one mystery of the Ineffable this which I finished
saying unto you now [211^b] and in the hour they will loosen it from the
body of the matter it will become a great effluence of light in the
middle of those Receivers and will fear greatly the Receivers before the
light of that soul, and will be weakened the Receivers and fall and be
silent altogether, out of the fear of the great light which they saw.
And the soul which receiveth this mystery of the Ineffable will fly unto
the Height becoming a great effluence of light.
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