Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
die by the death which is reckoned unto him by the Rulers of the
Destiny: because if it is being reckoned unto one for to die by the
sword, or for to die by the waters or in torture with torment with
violence which (are) in the laws, or by other evil deaths, then thou
didst not bring mystery unto the world, that the man should not die
among them by the Rulers of the Destiny, but that he should die in a
death sudden, that he should not suffer any tribulation by these deaths
of this kind: because that, we, very many are those who are pursuing us
[254^b] because of thee, and we, many are those who persecute us because
of thy name, that whenever they should torment us we should say the
mysteries and come out of the body immediately having not suffered any
tribulation. Answered the Saviour, said he to all his disciples, Because
of this word which ye ask me of, I said to you at another time: but hear
also that I may say unto you at another time: not only ye but every man
who will complete the first mystery (of the First Mystery of the
Ineffable, he who will do therefore that Mystery, M), and (will)
complete it (in) its figures with all its types with its positions,
doing indeed it and coming not out of body, but after completing that
mystery with its figure with all its type, afterwards therefore, every
time at which he will name that mystery, [255^a] he will be delivered
from all those which are reckoned unto him by the Rulers of the Destiny,
and at that hour he cometh out of the body of the matter of the Rulers,
and his soul will become a great effluence of Light, and (will) fly unto
the Height, and (will) pass through every Place of the Rulers with every
Place of the Light, until it should go unto the Place of its Kingdom:
neither is it wont to give answer nor defence in any Place, for it is
one without symbol.
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