The Second Space is that which is called Creator, Father, Word, Source,
Mind, Man, Eternal, Infinite. He is the Pillar, the Overseer, the
Father of all. He it is upon whose Head the æons form a crown, darting
forth their rays. The Fullness of His Countenance is unknown to the
external worlds who seek His Face, for evermore yearning to know It;
for unto them His Word has run forth and to behold It is their desire.
The Light of His Eyes pierces to the spaces of the external Plêrôma and
the Word goes forth from His Mouth to those who dwell in Heaven and to
those who dwell beneath it. The hairs of His Head are the number of
the Hidden Worlds, and the Features of His Face are the type of the
Eternities; the hairs of His Beard are the number of the External
Worlds. The stretching out of His Hands is the manifestation of the
Cross (3). The strain of the Cross is the Ennead, the Ninefold Being.
He who springs up [? or is nailed] to the right and to the left of the
Cross is the Man whom no man can comprehend. He is the Father, the
Fount whence Silence wells, He for whom the Quest is everywhere. The
Father is He from whom went forth the Monad and the Spark of Light, and
before this all the Worlds were dark nothings. For it is that Spark of
Light which has placed all things in the rays of Its Splendour, so they
have received Knowledge [Gnôsis], Life, Hope, Peace, Faith, Love and
Resurrection, the Second Birth and the Seal. Now these things are the
Ennead, the Ninefold Being, which has come forth from the Father
without beginning, who alone has been His own Father and His own
Mother, whose Plêrôma surrounds the twelve (4) Deeps.
The First Deep is the Universal Fount, from whom all fountains have
gone forth.
The Second Deep is the Universal Wisdom, from whom all wisdoms have
gone forth.
The Third Deep is the Universal Mystery, from whom all mysteries have
gone forth.
The Fourth Deep is the Universal Gnôsis, from whom all Gnôses have gone
forth.
The Fifth Deep is the Universal Purity, from whom all purity has gone
forth.
The Sixth Deep is the Silence that contains all silences.
The Seventh Deep is the Universal Super-essential Essence, from whom
all essences have gone forth.
The Eighth Deep is the Forefather from whom and by whom all forefathers
exist.
The Ninth Deep is the All-Father, Self-Father, in whom is the
All-Paternity of those who are Self-Fathers of the all.
The Tenth Deep is the All-Power, from whom all powers have gone forth.
The Eleventh Deep is that in which there is the First Invisible, from
whom have gone forth all invisibles.
The Twelfth Deep is the Truth, from whence all truths have sped forth.
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