Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
mystery (M) of the repentance which said the Pistis Sophia.
It happened therefore, Iohannes having finished saying these words unto
Jesus in the midst [63^a] of his disciples, said he to him: Well (done)
Iohannes the Virgin, this who will rule in the kingdom of the Light.
But added also Jesus in the word, said he to his disciples, It happened
also thus: the emanations of the Self-willed afflicted also the Pistis
Sophia in the Chaoses, they wished to take away all her light: and was
not yet completed her precept to bring her up from the Chaos, and the
command had not yet come to me from the First Mystery, for me to deliver
her from the Chaos. It happened therefore, having afflicted her all the
material emanations of the Self-Willed, she cried out, saying the fifth
Repentance, saying: O Light of my salvation, I hymn unto thee in the
Place of the Height, and also [63^b] in the Chaos. I shall hymn unto
thee in my hymn. I hymned unto thee in the Height, and that in which I
hymned unto thee while I am being in the Chaos, let it come before thy
face; and take heed, O Light, unto my repentance, because my power was
full of darkness and my light came down unto the Chaos. I became also as
the Ruler of the Chaos, those who are going unto the darkness below. I
became as a material body which has not him who will deliver him in the
Height. I became also as (things of) matter from which they took away
their power, casting in the Chaos these which thou didst not deliver,
and they perished by thy precept. Now therefore, they put me in the
darkness (M) below, in darknesses and in (things of) matter being dead,
and there being not power in them. Thou broughtest thy precept upon me,
and with every [64^a] thing which thou orderest: and thy spirit ran
(away), it left me, and also through thy precept helped me not the
emanations of my Aeon, and they hated me and they ceased from me; and
also I perished, not for ever; and my light was diminished in me: and I
cried up unto the Light in all the light which is in me, and I spread my
hands up unto thee. Now therefore, O Light, wilt thou not complete thy
precept in the Chaos? And the deliverers those who are coming according
to thy precept, will they not arise in the darkness and come and be
disciples to thee? Will they not say the mystery of thy name in the
Chaos (or otherwise rather will they say thy name in a matter of Chaos)
this in which thou wilt not purify? But I [64^b] hymned up unto thee, O
Light and my repentance will attain thee up unto the Height. Let thy
Light come upon me, because they took away my light from me. And I
became in tribulations because of the light, since the time (in) which
they emanated me. And I having looked at the Height unto the light, I
looked down unto the power of light which (is) in the Chaos. I arose I
came down: thy precept came upon me, and the fears which thou orderedst
unto me disturbed me, and they surrounded me being numerous as water,
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