Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
In that time therefore will be more manifested the faith with
the mysteries in those days: and there are many souls coming by the
cycle of the change of the body, and they are coming unto the World,
some of them being in this present [286^a] time, having heard me
teaching: in the completion of the number of the perfect souls they will
find the mysteries of the Light and receive them: and they (will) come
up to the gate of the Light and find it, having been completed the
number of the perfect souls, namely, the completion of the First
Mystery, and that is the knowing of the Universe. And they will find it,
I having shut up the gate of the Light. And it is not possible for any
to come in, or for any to come out from this hour. These souls therefore
will knock in unto the gate of the Light, saying, Lord open to us. I
shall answer that I may say to them, I know you not whence ye are. And
they will say to me, We received out of thy mysteries, and we completed
all thy teaching, and thou [286^b] taughtest to us in the highways. And
I shall answer that I may say to them, I know not you who ye are, those
who work the unlawfulness with the evil, even until now. Because of this
go unto the Darkness which is outer. And in that hour they will go unto
the Darkness which is outer, the Place in which is the weeping with the
gnashing of the teeth. Because of this therefore preach to all the
World, say unto them: Strive, renounce all the World with all the matter
which is in it, and receive the mysteries of the Light, before that was
completed the number of the perfect souls, that they should not put you
at the door of the gate of the Light, and betake you unto the Darkness
which is outer. Now therefore he who hath ear to hear, let him hear.
These therefore having said them the Saviour, sprang up also forward
[287^a] Maria, said she, My Lord not only (is it) that hath ear my
Light-dweller, but heard my soul and understood every word which thou
sayest. Now therefore, my Lord, concerning the words which thou saidst,
Preach to the men of the World say unto them, Strive, receive the
mysteries of the Light in this time which is troublous, that ye should
inherit the kingdom of the Light.
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