Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
one after another, indeed his distributions with his form of words
(speaking of himself) as he is with the joining of all his members,
belonging to the arrangement of the only one God of the truth,
inaccessible.
The Place therefore unto which each will receive mystery in the Space of
the Ineffable, he will inherit unto [224^b] the Place which he received.
And those of the whole Place of the Space of the Ineffable are not wont
to give answer at every Place, nor are they wont to give defence nor are
they wont to give symbol for ones without symbol are they; and they have
not Receiver, but they are wont to pass through all the Places, until
they go unto the Place of the kingdom of the mystery which they
received. Likewise also those who will receive mystery in the second
Space have not answer nor defence, for ones without symbol they are in
that World, that is the Space of the first mystery of the First Mystery:
and those of the third Space also which is the outside, namely, the
third Space also from the outside, each Place hath in that Space its
Receivers with its answer [225^a] with its defence with its symbol,
these which I shall say unto you in the time (in) which I shall say unto
you that mystery, namely, whenever I should finish saying unto you the
Distribution of the Universe. Nevertheless in the dissolution of the
Universe, namely, whenever should be completed the number of the perfect
souls, and (should) be completed the mystery this (through) which the
Universe entirely became, I shall spend (a) thousand years according to
the years of the Light reigning over all the emanations of the Light
with all the number of the perfect souls, these which received all the
mysteries.
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