The First Monad sent Him [the Man] an ineffable vesture which is all
Light, all Life, all Love, all Hope, all Faith, all Wisdom, all Gnôsis,
all Truth, all Peace, all Witness, all Universal Mother, all Universal
Mystery, all Fount, all Universal Perfection, all Invisible, all
Unknown, all Infinite, all Ineffable, all Abyss, all Uncontainable, all
Fullness, all Silence, all Unshakable, all Unengendered, all Universal
Solitary, all Monad, all Ennead, all Dodecad, all Ogdoad, all Decad,
all Hebdomad, all Hexad, all Pentad, all Tetrad, all Triad, all Dyad,
all Monad. The whole Universe is in it, and the Universe has found
itself therein and knows itself therein (29). It gave light to all in
its ineffable light, and it was given myriads and myriads of powers, so
that the Universe might be established once and for all. It gathered
together its skirts and gave them the form of a veil which surrounded
it [the Universe] on every side. It poured itself over all things,
raised them up and divided them according to the Hierarchies, according
to the orders, and according to Providence. Then that-which-was
separated itself from that-which-was-not, and that-which-was-not was
the evil manifested in matter; and the Robe of Power severed
that-which-was from that-which-was-not. That-which-was it called
Æonian, and that-which-was-not it called Hyle (matter). It separated
by the Midst that-which-was from that-which-was-not, and placed veils
between these twain. It placed purifying powers, so that they might
purge them and make them clean. It gave in this manner an order to
that-which-is and made of the Mother the chief. It gave it ten æons,
and each æon has a myriad powers; there is also a Monad and an Ennead
in each æon.
The [Robe of Power] placed in her [? Phaneia] an Universal Motherhood
and therewith a Power that had hitherto been concealed therein, so that
none knew thereof. [? The Robe] placed a great Basket, above which
stand three Powers, an Ingenerable One, an Unshakable One, and the
Great Pure One. It gave to [? the world order] the twelve other Powers
who have received the crown and who surround it. It gave it also the
Seven Stratelatai (32), who have the seal of the All-completing
[Panteleios], and have on their heads crowns in which there are twelve
stones of Adamant, which come from Adam, the Man of Light.
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