Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
wilt deliver me, because that I was doing thy wish since [84^a] becoming
in my Aeon. I was doing thy wish as the Invisibles who become in my
Place, and as my partner, and I was lamenting, gazing, seeking after thy
Light. Now therefore surrounded me all the emanations of the
Self-willed, and they rejoiced over me, and they oppressed me greatly,
while I know not (the cause?). And they ran (away) they ceased from me,
and they had not mercy upon me, they turned (back) also, they tempted
me, and they oppressed me in the great oppression: they gnashed their
teeth at me, wishing to take away my light from me altogether. How long
therefore, O Light, art thou bearing with them oppressing me? Deliver my
power out of their evil thoughts, and deliver me from the power of face
of lion, because I alone among the Invisibles am that which becometh in
this [84^b] Place. I shall hymn unto thee, O Light, being in the midst
of all those who collected unto me, and I shall cry up at thee in the
midst of all those who oppress me. Now therefore, O Light, let not
rejoice at me those who hate me, and who wish to take away my power from
me, these who hate me; who move their eyes at me, I having not done
anything to them. Because they were flattering me indeed in words fair,
seeking from me the mysteries of the Light, these which I know not;
saying unto me, being crafty unto me, and being angry with me because I
believed the Light which (is) in the Height. They opened their mouth
against me, said they, Yea, we shall take away her light. Now therefore,
O Light, thou knewest their guile. Bear not with them, and let not thy
help be far away [85^a] from me. Hasten, O Light. Do my judgment with my
avenging, and give judgment unto me in thy goodness. Now therefore, O
Light of the Lights, let them not take away my light from me, and let
them not say within them, Our power was satisfied with her light, and
let them not say, (We) swallowed (down) her power, but let darkness
rather come upon them, and let them be powerless, those who wish to take
away my light from me: and let them clothe them with Chaos and darkness,
those who say, We shall take away her light with her power. Now
therefore deliver me that I may rejoice, because I wish for the
thirteenth Aeon the Place of the righteousness. And I shall say at every
time, Shall make more light the light of Ieou thy angel, because I long
for the light, [85^b] and my tongue will hymn unto thee in thy knowledge
in all my time in the thirteenth Aeon.
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