Beyond all these Spaces comes the Deep of Sêtheus. This he who is in
them all and is surrounded by twelve Paternities, even in the midst of
these is he. Each Paternity has three faces. The first of them is an
Indivisible One, and three faces has he, Infinite, Invisible, and
Ineffable faces. The Second Father has Uncontainable, Unshakable, and
Incorruptible faces. The Third Father has faces Beyond Knowledge,
Imperishable, and Aphrêdonian. The Fourth Father has a countenance of
Silence, a face of Founts, and a visage Impalpable. The Fifth Father
has Solitary, Omnipotent, and Ingenerable faces. The Sixth Father has
the face of an All-Father, the face of a Self-Father, and the face of a
Forefather. The Seventh Father has countenances of Universal Mystery,
of Universal Wisdom and Universal Origin. Visages has the Eighth
Father of Light, Repose, and Resurrection. The Ninth Father has faces
Knowable, First Visible, and... The Tenth Father has Triple-fleshed,
Adamic, and Pure faces. The Eleventh Father has faces Triple-powered,
Perfect, and Sparkling. The Twelfth Father has a face of Truth, a face
of Fore-thought, and a face of After-thought. These are the twelve
Paternities which encircle Sêtheus. [Their faces] make in all a
[mystic] number thirty-six. These are they from whom those of the
exterior have received a seal-mark, that is why they glorify them for
evermore (11).
In that Space there are yet twelve other paternities who encircle the
head [of Sêtheus] and support a crown there. They dart out rays upon
the surrounding worlds by the Grace of the Alone-begotten Word,
concealed in him, He that is sought for.
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