Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
Saviour, she gazed in the air for the time of an hour. Said she, My Lord
command to me that I may speak in boldness.
Answered Jesus the merciful, said he to Mariham, Mariham the happy, this
whom I shall complete in all the mysteries [25^b] of the (things) of the
Height. Speak in boldness, because thou art she whose heart straineth
toward the Kingdom of the heavens more than all thy brothers.
Then said she, Mariham to the Saviour, My Lord, the word which thou
saidst to us, He who hath ear to hear let him hear, art thou saying that
we should understand the word which thou saidst? Hear, therefore, my
Lord and I (will) say in boldness. The word which thou saidst that I
took away the third part from the power of the Rulers of all the Aeons;
and that I removed their Destiny with their Spheres, these which are for
lord unto them, that whenever the race of the men should invoke them in
their mysteries, these which taught them the Angels, who transgressed,
unto the accomplishment of their evil [26^a] works and unlawful, in the
mystery of their magic; in order that they should not be able to prevail
any more from this hour to accomplish their unlawful works, because that
thou tookest away their power from them: with their hour-setters, with
their enquirers, with those who are wont to show to the men, who are in
the World, everything which will happen, that they should not understand
from this hour to show to them any thing which will happen, because thou
removedst their Spheres; and thou causedst them to spend six months
turned to the left, fulfilling their influences, and other six months
looking to the right, fulfilling their influences. Because of this word
therefore, my Lord, which it said thus (viz.) the power which (is) in
Esaias the prophet, and which it uttered in a spiritual parable, [26^b]
once speaking concerning the vision of Egypt: Where, therefore, Egypt,
where are thy enquirers, with thy hour-setters, with those who are wont
to call out of the earth, with those who are wont to call out of their
belly? Let them show to thee, therefore, from this hour the works which
will do the Lord, Sabaoth. Of whom prophesied therefore before that thou
camest, the power which (is) in Esaias the prophet who prophesied about
thee, that thou would take away the power of the Rulers of the Aeons,
and remove their Sphere with their Destiny that they should not know
anything from this hour? Concerning this indeed it said, Ye will not
know, therefore, what the Lord, Sabaoth will do, namely, [27^a] that
there is not any in the Rulers about to know the (things) which thou
wilt do from this hour, which (Rulers) are (called) Egypt because that
they are of matter: which the power, therefore, which is in Esaias
prophesied about thee once saying, Ye will not know therefore from this
hour the (things) which will do the Lord, Sabaoth, because of the power
of light which thou receivedst from Sabaoth the good, this who becometh
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