Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
[38^b] But it happened, Jesus having finished saying these words unto
his disciples, they all prostrated together, they worshipped to him, and
said they to him, We are happy (ones) beyond every man, thou having
revealed to us these great grandeurs.
Added also Jesus in the word, said he to his disciples, Hear, hear
concerning the words which became to me among the Rulers of the twelve
Aeons, with all their Rulers, with their Lords, with their Authorities,
with their Angels with their Archangels. They having seen therefore the
vesture of light which (is) upon me, they with their Unpaired (ones)
every one of them saw the mystery of their name becoming in my vesture
of light, this [39^a] which (is) upon me, they prostrated all one after
another, they worshipped to the vesture of light which (is) upon me, and
they all cried out together, saying, How did the Lord of the Universe
pass through us, we having not known (it). And they all hymned together
unto the inward part of the inward parts. And all their Triple powers,
with their great Forefather and their Unbegotten (ones) with their
Self-begotten (ones) with their Begotten (ones) with their Gods with
their sparks with their luminaries, in one word, with all their great
(ones) they saw the Tyrants of their Places abiding in feebleness,
having their power diminished in them, and they became themselves in
great weakness, and they became also in great fear, there being no
measure unto it. And they were [39^b] beholding the mystery of their
name in my vesture, and they had begun to come and worship the mystery
of their name, which (is) in my vesture: and they were not able to
prevail because of the great light which becometh with me. But they
worshipped distant from me a little: but they worshipped the light of my
vesture, and they all cried out together hymning unto the inward part of
the inward parts. It happened therefore, these having happened, to the
Tyrants, who become among the Rulers, they were all weakened, they fell
down in their Aeons, and they became as the men of the world who are
dead, having not breath in them, as also they did at the hour (in) which
I took away their power from them. It happened therefore after these
(things) I having come out to those Aeons, each [40^a] one of all those
who become in the twelve Aeons, they were all bound in unto their
arrays, and they completed their works according as I put them, for to
spend six months turned to the Left, doing their works in their
four-corners with their three-corners, with those who (are) in front of
them.
And again to spend another six months beholding the Right in their
three-corners and in their four-corners, with those who are in front of
them. Thus also will move, those who become in the Destiny with the
Sphere.
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