Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
prophesied about me, knowing that I shall bring the mysteries unto the
World, and I (shall) purify the sins of the sinners, these who will
believe me, and hearken unto me, and I (shall) make them pure light, and
take them unto the Light. These therefore having said them Jesus,
answered Maria, said she, My Lord, then whenever the men go that they
should seek, and come upon teachings of error, by what are they about to
know that they are reckoned unto thee or otherwise? Answered the
Saviour, said he to Maria, I said unto you once, Be as the wise
money-changers, because that which is [315^a] good he taketh it, that
which is bad he casteth it out. Now therefore, say to every man who will
seek the Godhead, Whenever a wind of north, ye are wont to know that a
coolness is that will happen, whenever a south wind cometh out, ye are
wont to know that (added in upper margin) burning-heat with a warmth is
that which will happen. Now therefore say unto them, If ye knew the face
of the heaven with the earth out of the winds, Whenever some therefore
now should come up (close) to you and preach to you a Godhead, and ye
know in an exactness that their words agreed and suited (to) all your
words, these which I said unto you by witnessings two up to three, and
they have agreed in the constitution of the air with the heavens with
the cycles with the stars (aster) with the planet (phoster) with all the
earth with all which are in it with all the waters also with all which
are in them, say unto them, Those who come [315^b] unto you and their
words suit and agree in all the knowledge which I said unto you, then
receive them (as) belonging unto us. These are the (things) which ye
will say unto the men to whom ye preach, that they should keep
them(selves) from the teachings of error. Now therefore because of the
sinners I despoiled my(self) I came unto the World, that I should
deliver them, because that the righteous (ones) indeed, these who did
not do any of evil ever, and these who did not do sin at all, it is
necessary for them to find the mysteries, these which (are) in the Book
of Ieou, these which I caused Enokh to write in the paradisos, while
speaking with him out of the Tree of the Knowledge and out of the Tree
of the life. And I caused him to put them in the rock of Ararad. And I
put Kalapatauroth, the Ruler who (is) over Ghemmout, this (one) upon
whom are the feet [316^a] of Ieou, and he it is who goeth round all the
Aeons with the Destinies. That Ruler I put him being vigilant unto the
Books of Ieou because of the Flood, and that no Ruler should envy them
and should destroy them. These which I shall give to you whenever I
finish saying unto you the Distribution of the Universe. These therefore
having said them the Saviour, answered Maria, said she, My Lord, then
who therefore also is the man who is upon the World, who sinned not at
all, this (one) being sound from unlawfulness? For whenever he should be
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