Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
[233^b] and those who are worthy of the Mysteries which dwell in the
Ineffable, namely, which did not proceed out: these become before the
First Mystery and according to resemblance and (with, MS) equality with
the word, that ye may understand it, so that they are the Members of the
Ineffable: and each according to the honour of his glory, the head
according to the honour of the head, and the eye according to the honour
of the eyes, and the ear according to the honour of the ears, and (so
with) the rest of the Members. So that the thing (is) manifest, that
many members are, but one body it is. This indeed I am saying in an
example with an equality with a comparison, but in truth not of form,
nor did I manifest the word in truth, but the Mystery of the Ineffable,
and every member [234^a] which (is) in him, according to the word (with)
which I compared it, namely, those who dwell unto the Mystery of the
Ineffable with those who dwell in him, and the three Spaces which (are)
after them, according to the Mysteries in one of all of these in truth.
I am the Treasury of them all, this beside which there is not other
Treasury, this which hath not his own upon the World. But yet there are
words becoming, and there are mysteries and there are Places. Now
therefore happy is he who brought the Mysteries unto the outward: and a
God is he who found these words of the Mysteries of the second Space
which is in the Middle. And a Saviour he is, and uncontainable is he who
found the words of the mysteries, with the words of the third Space
which is on the inward: and he excelleth the Universe, and he is
acceptable to those who become in that third Space, [234^b] because that
the Mystery, in which they become, with that in which they stand,
receiveth him. Because of this therefore he is equal unto them. He who
found also the words of the mysteries, these which I wrote to you
according to a comparison, because they are the members of the
Ineffable. Amen I say to you, He who found the words of those mysteries
in truth of the God, that that man, he is the first in truth, and he is
equal unto him, because of those words with the mysteries. And the
Universe also stood because of that First (One). Because of this he who
found the words of those mysteries is equal with the First (One). For
the knowledge of the comprehension of the Ineffable (is that) in which I
spake (it) with you to-day.
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