Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
changing) of the body, is wont the Virgin of the Light, she is wont to
seal her with a seal more excellent, and [294^b] hasten to make them
cast her in the same month unto a righteous body, this which is about to
find the mysteries of the Light, and about to be good, that he may go
unto the Height unto the kingdom of the Light. And if that soul received
her number of cycles, is wont the Virgin of the Light, she is wont to
prove her, she is not wont to let them punish her, because that she
received the number of cycle: but she is wont to deliver her unto the
seven Virgins of the Light. And are wont the seven Virgins of the Light,
they are wont to prove that soul, and they are wont to baptise her with
their baptisms, and give to her the spiritual chrism, and take her unto
the Treasury of the Light, and put her in the last array of the Light,
until the catching up of all the perfect souls. And whenever they should
prepare for drawing away the veils [295^a] of the Place of those on the
Right (hand), they are wont to purify that soul again and cleanse her
and put her in the arrays of the first Saviour, he who (is) in the
Treasury of the Light.
It happened therefore, the Saviour having finished saying these words
unto his disciples, answered Mariham, said she to Jesus, My Lord, I
heard thee saying, He who will receive the mysteries of the Ineffable,
or he who will receive the mysteries of the First Mystery, they are wont
to make beams of light with effluence of light, and pass through every
Place, even until they go unto the Place of their inheritance. Answered
the Saviour, said he to Maria, Whenever they should receive the mystery
yet being alive, and whenever they should come out of body, they are
wont to make beams of light with effluence of light and pass [295^b]
through every Place, even until they go unto the Place of their
inheritance. But if being sinners indeed, having come out of the body,
having not repented, and ye make for them the mystery of the Ineffable,
that they should remove them out of all the punishments, and cast them
unto a righteous body, that he may inherit the kingdom of the Light, or
otherwise indeed they should take him unto the last array of the Light,
they are not wont to be able to prevail to pass through the Places,
because they are not those who make the mystery: but are wont the
Receivers of Melkhisedek, they are wont to come after them and take them
(close) to the Virgin of the Light, and a multitude of times are wont
the Ministers of the Judges of the Rulers, they are wont to hasten and
take those souls, and deliver them unto one (to) another, even until
[296^a] they take her (close) to the Virgin of the Light. Added also
Maria, said she to the Saviour, My Lord, then a man who received the
mysteries of the Light, those which (are) in the first Space reckoning
from without, and having been completed the time of the mysteries up to
which they extend, and that man added not again to receive mystery in
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