The Father holy and all-perfect stood above the Deep Immeasurable. It
is in Him that all perfection is found, and in His fullness have we
received grace. Then the world was established; it ceased to shake;
the Father fashioned it so that it might nevermore be shaken, and the
æon of the Mother remained full of those that were in it until the
ordering came from the Mystery concealed in the First Father, He from
whence came the Mystery; when His Son re-established the Universe once
more in His Gnôsis, that which re-enforms the Universe.
Then Sêtheus sent the Logos Dêmiourgos, having with him a multitude of
Powers, wearing the crowns on their heads; and their crowns darted
forth rays. The brilliancy of their bodies is as the life of the Space
into which they are come; the word that comes out of their mouths is
life Æonian, and the light that comes from their eyes is a rest for
them; the movement of their hands is their flight to the place from
whence they have come, and their gazing on their own faces is Gnôsis of
their interior nature; their going towards them is their return once
more within; the stretching forth of their hands establishes them; the
hearing of their ears is the intuition in their hearts; the union of
their limbs is the regathering of the dispersal of Israel; their
self-understanding is their contemplation of the Logos; the writing
upon their fingers is the number which has gone forth, even as it is
written, "He counteth the number of the Stars and calleth them all by
their names."
And the whole union was made by the Logos Dêmiourgos with those who had
come out of the turmoil that had been: altogether they became one and
the same body, as it has been written, "They have all become one and
the same body in this One and Only One." Then this Logos Dêmiourgos
became a mighty God, Lord, Saviour, Christ, King, the Good, Father,
Mother. This is He whose work was good: He was glorified and became
Father to those that believed: He became Law in Aphrêdonia and mighty.
Then went forth Pandêlos [All-manifest]; she had a crown on her head,
and she placed it upon them who had believed (29).
The Power of the Æons [? the Indivisible Queen, the Mother within the
Plêrôma] ordered the Hierarchy of the World of the Virgin Mother
[Phaneia, the Mother without the Plêrôma, she who brings into
manifestation] according to the Order of the Inner Space. She placed
in it the Light-Spark after the pattern of the Monad and placed therein
the concealment which surrounds Him. She ordained the Propatôr after
the Order of the Indivisible Body and the twelve Holy Ones which
surround it, having crowns on their heads and seals of glory in their
right hands, after the type found in the Indivisible Point. In the
midst of these is Love; a face of the Triple-Power is in the Fount, and
there is a Basket which twelve Paternities surround, in whom a Sonship
is concealed.
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