Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
Said Iohannes, Then a man having done every sin and every unlawfulness,
but at the last he found the mysteries of the Light is it possible for
him to be saved? Said Jesus, This of this kind who did every sin and
every unlawfulness, and found the mysteries of the Light, and did them
and completed them, and did not cease, nor did sin, he is about to
inherit the Treasury of the Light.
Said Jesus to his disciples, If should [354^a] the Sphere turn round and
(if) Kronos with Ares should come behind the Virgin of the Light; and
Zeus with the Aphrodite should come in the presence of the Virgin, being
in their own Aeons, they are wont to draw (away) the veils of the
Virgin; she is wont to become cheerful in that hour, seeing these two
stars of light in her presence. And every soul which she will cast unto
the cycle of the Aeons of the Sphere at that hour, for them to come out
unto the world, they are wont to become righteous and good, and they are
wont to find the mysteries of the Light at this time. (Or if not) she is
wont to dispatch them another time, that they may find the mysteries of
the Light. If Ares also with Kronos should come to the presence of the
Virgin, Zeus with the Aphrodite beg behind her, not seeing them, every
soul which she will cast [354^b] unto the creatures of the Sphere at
that hour, they are wont to become evil and wrathful, and they are not
wont to find the mysteries of the Light.
These therefore while Jesus is saying them to his disciples in the
Middle of Amente, cried out, wept the disciples, Woe woe to the men the
sinners, these upon whom the neglect lieth and the forgetfulness of the
Rulers, until they come out of body and they take them unto these
punishments. Have mercy on us, have mercy on us, the Son of him who is
holy, and have compassion on us, that we should be saved from these
punishments and these judgments, which are prepared for the sinners.
Otherwise we did sin, we also, our Lord and our Light....
(_Seven lines vacant_)
[355^a] the righteous (one). They came out (by) three (and) three unto
the four regions of the heaven, they preached the evangel of the Kingdom
in all the world, the Christ working with them in the word of the
strengthening and the signs which follow them and the wonders. And thus
they knew the kingdom of the God in all the earth and in all the world
of the Israel, unto witness to all the nations, these who become from
the places of rising to place of setting: (two lines of ornament, two
lines erasure, and two more lines of ornament.)
INDEX OF PSALMS AND ODES
50^a, Psalm 68 (69), 1-37, Maria, 27
55^a, Psalm 70 (71), 1-13 (11), Petros, 30
58^a, Psalm 69 (70), 1-6, Martha, 31
61^b, Psalm 101 (102), 1-22, Iohannes, 33
67^b, Psalm 87 (88), 1-19, Philippos, 36
69^b, Psalm 129 (130), 1-8, Andreas, 38
71^b, Psalm 81 (82), 1, Maria, 39
74^b, Psalm 24 (25), 1-22 (21), Thomas, 40
80^a, Psalm 30 (31), 1-19, Maththaios, 44
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