Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
The third [222^b] Mystery also of that Ineffable, the man indeed who
will complete that mystery, not only because whenever he should come out
of the body being about to inherit the kingdom of the mystery, but
whenever he should perform and complete it with all its figures, which
is this, that whenever he should do that mystery and complete it well,
and mention by name that mystery over a man coming out of the body,
having known that mystery, this (man) who having delayed, or rather did
not delay this (man) who becometh in the punishments which are cruel of
the Rulers, and with their judgments which are cruel with their fires
which are various: Amen I say to you, The man who cometh out of the
body, whenever they should name this mystery for his sake, they will
hasten quickly and remove him and deliver [223^a] him up to one another,
even until they take him (close) to the Virgin of the Light, and the
Virgin of the Light will seal him with a seal being more excellent,
which is this (the form of the seal is not given): and in any month she
will cause them to cast him unto the body of (a) righteous (man), this
who will find the Godhead of the truth with the mystery which is more
excellent, and he (will) inherit the kingdom of the Light. This
therefore is the free-gift of the third mystery of the Ineffable. Now
therefore every one who will receive (one) out of the five mysteries of
the Ineffable, this whenever he should come out of the body and inherit
unto the Place of that mystery (and the kingdom of those five
mysteries)[114] [223^b] they are equal with one another in their
kingdom, but they are not equal with the three mysteries of the
Ineffable. He who also receiveth out of the three mysteries of the
Ineffable, whenever also he should come out of body he will inherit unto
the kingdom of that mystery, and those three mysteries are equal with
one another, they are in the kingdom and they are more excellent and
they are higher than the five Mysteries of the Ineffable in the kingdom.
But they are not equal with the one (only) mystery of the Ineffable. He
who receiveth also the one (only) mystery of the Ineffable will inherit
the Place of the whole kingdom, according as I finished saying unto you
all his glory another time. And every one who will receive the mystery,
which is in the Space of the Universe of the Ineffable with all the
other mysteries, which are joined in the members of the Ineffable
[224^a], these concerning which I did not yet speak with you with their
distribution with the manner in which they stand, and with the type of
each as it is, and because of what they called him, The Ineffable, or
because of what he stood being distributed with all his members, and how
many members there are becoming in him, with all his arrangements, these
which I shall not say unto you now, but whenever I should be about (to
say) unto you the Distribution of the Universe, I shall say unto you all
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