Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
Then Jesus drew away unto him the glory of his light, and this having
happened were confident of heart all the disciples, they came up to foot
of Jesus, they prostrated all, at once, they worshipped to him rejoicing
in great joy. Said they to him, Hrabbei, whither wentest thou, or what
is thy Service which thou wentest (upon), or in what indeed were all
these disturbances with all these earthquakes which happened? Then said
he to them Jesus, the merciful, Rejoice and be glad from this hour,
because [9^a] I went even to the Places out of which I came. From
to-day, therefore, henceforth I shall speak with you in boldness from
the beginning of the Truth even to its end, and I shall speak with you
face to face without parable, I shall not hide anything from you, from
this hour, of the (things) of the Height and the (things) of the Place
of the Truth; for they gave authority from the Ineffable and from the
First Mystery of all the mysteries for me to speak with you from the
beginning even to the Pleroma, and from within even to without and from
without even to within. Hear therefore that I may say unto you
everything. It happened while I am sitting being distant from you [9^b]
a little upon the mountain of the Olives, thinking of the arrangement of
the service concerning which they sent me, that it was finished: and the
Last mystery dispatched not to me my vesture, namely the twenty-fourth
mystery (reckoning) from within even to without, these which become in
the second Space of the First Mystery in the array of that Space. It
happened therefore, I having known that was finished the arrangement of
the service, concerning which I came, and not yet that Mystery
dispatched to me my vesture this which I left in it, until was finished
his time. These (things) therefore thinking, sitting [10^a] upon the
mountain of the Olives distant from you a little, it happened as the sun
came up in the Places of rising, afterward therefore through the First
Mystery, this which was becoming from at first, this because of whom the
Universe became, this out of which I also came now, not at the time
before they crucified me, but now. It happened by the commandment of
that Mystery, he dispatched to me my vesture of light, this which he
gave for me from (at) first, this which I left in the Last mystery,
namely the twenty-fourth mystery (reckoning) from within out, these
which become in the arrays of the second Space of the First [10^b]
Mystery. That vesture of light therefore, that which I, I left in the
Last mystery, until finished the time for me to put it on, and to begin
for me to speak with the race of mankind, and reveal to them all from
the beginning of the Truth even unto its end, and speak with them from
the inward part of the inward parts even unto the outward part of the
outward parts, and from the outward part of the outward parts even unto
the inward part of the inward parts. Rejoice therefore with gladness and
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