Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
did not receive mystery of the Light, and [221^b] who communicated not
in the word of the truth. Amen I say unto you, That man whenever he
should come out of the body, they are not wont to judge him in any Place
of the Rulers, nor will they be able to punish him in any Place, nor the
fire will touch him through the great mystery of the Ineffable, which
becometh with him: and they will hasten quickly, and deliver him up to
one another, and steer him along (from Place to Place) and from array to
array, even until they take him (close) to the Virgin of the Light, all
the Places fearing before the mystery with the sign of the kingdom of
the Ineffable, this which becometh with him: and whenever they should
take it (close) to the Virgin of the Light, the Virgin will see the sign
of the mystery of the kingdom [222^a] of the Ineffable, becoming with
him, is wont to wonder the Virgin of the Light, and she is wont to prove
him. But she is not wont to cause them to take him unto the Light, until
he completeth all the duties (politia) of the Light of that mystery,
which are these the purifications of the renunciation of the World and
with all the matter which is in it. The Virgin of the Light is wont to
seal him with a seal more excellent, which is this, (the form of the
seal is not given), and to cause them to cast him in any month in which
he came out of the body of the matter unto a body being about to become
righteous, this being about to find the Godhead of the truth, with the
mysteries which are high, and (to) inherit them, and (to) inherit the
Light unto age, namely, the free-gifts of the second mystery of the
First Mystery of the Ineffable.
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