She ordained the Autopatôr according to the order of the Ennead without
seal-mark and gave him authority over all that is only self-fathered,
and gave him a crown of all-glory and love, and Peace, Truth, and
myriads of powers, so that he might gather together those who had been
dispersed by the troubling which had taken place when the [Light Spark]
went forth with joy. As for the Prince of the Universe, he who has the
triple-power to make alive and to destroy, she ordained the Son
Prôtogennêtôr after the order of the Triple-Power. She gave him a
ninefold Ennead and five tenfold Decads, and that he might have power
to accomplish the warfare imposed upon him, she gave him the
first-fruits of the Sonship concealed in her that he might be able to
become a Triple-Power. He received the Vow of the Sonship because the
Universe (30) had been sold [? into slavery], and took upon him the
warfare entrusted to him and made arise all that was pure in matter. A
world made he, an æon, a town; the world which is called
"Incorruptibility" and "Jerusalem." It is also called "The New Earth,"
and "Self-Perfect," and "Without King." This earth is an earth that
brings forth gods, a life-giving earth indeed. This is the earth that
the Mother (? Phaneia) asked to have established. That is why she (?
the Mother Above) has placed orders or hierarchy in this earth and has
placed in it Providence and Love. This is the earth of which it has
been written, "The earth which drank the rain a multitude of times":
that is to say, which has multiplied the light in her multitudes and
multitudes of times, since the (light) went forth until its return;
that is to say, it is that from which the Man is named "Sensible." He
is fashioned, He has been created according to the type of this earth,
He who has been saved from His Self dispersion by the Prôtogennêtôr
(31). Because of that, the Father of all those of the Universe, He who
has no [bridal] bed has sent [Him,? the Man] a crown bearing the names
of all those of the Universe, whether Infinite or Ineffable, or
Uncontainable, or Incorruptible, or Unknown, or Solitary, or
All-powerful, or Indivisible. This is the crown of which it is
written, "They gave it unto Solomon on the day of his exultation of
heart."
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