Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
Added Jesus also in the word with his disciples, Rejoice and be glad and
add joy upon your joy because fulfilled were the times for me to put on
my vesture, this which was being prepared for me from at first, this
which I left in the Last mystery even unto the time of its fulfilment.
But the time of its fulfilment is the time which they will command by
the First mystery for me to speak with you from the beginning of the
Truth even unto its end, and from the inward part [15^b] of the inward
parts, because that the World will be delivered by you. Rejoice
therefore and be glad because ye are happy beyond all the men who (are)
upon the earth, because ye are those who will deliver all the World.
It happened therefore, Jesus having finished saying these words unto his
disciples, he added also in the word, said he to them, Behold therefore
I wore my vesture, and they gave to me all authorities by the First
Mystery. Yet a little more time is, and I shall say unto you the mystery
of the all with the Pleroma of the all; and I shall hide nothing from
you from this hour, but in a fulfilment I shall fulfil you in every
Pleroma and in every completion and in every mystery, namely the
completion of all completions, and [16^a] the Pleroma of all the
Pleromas and the knowledge of all the knowledges these which become in
my vesture I shall say unto you all the mysteries from the outward part
of the outward parts unto the inward part of the inward parts.
Nevertheless, hear, that I may say unto you everything which happened to
me. It happened therefore the sun having come up in the places (Coptic)
of rising, (there) came down a great power of light, my vesture being in
it, this which I left in the twenty-fourth Mystery according as I have
already said to you now, and I found a mystery in my vesture, written in
the sort of, the writing of the (things) of the Height _zama zama ozza
rakhama ozai_, namely, its interpretation, The mystery which is outside
of the World, this [16^b] because of which the Universe became. This is
with the whole (going) out the whole taking away up, this which
distributed all the distributions with all those which are in them, and
this because of which every mystery became and with all their Places.
Come up even unto us, because we (are) thy fellow members, but we all
(are) with thyself also, we (are) One of One and thou art One of One,
that is the First Mystery which became from at first in the Ineffable
before that he came forth, and the name of that (One) we all (are). Now
therefore we all together we wait for thee at the last Boundary, namely,
the last mystery (reckoning) from within, he also is a part of us. Now
therefore we have dispatched to thee thy vesture [17^a] which is thy
very own from at first, this which thou left in the last Boundary,
namely, the Last mystery from within, until his time is completed
according to the command of the First Mystery.
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