In the _Pistis Sophia_ document, the Sophia, or the soul turning towards the Light, first utters seven repentances, or "turnings-of-the-mind," or rather of the whole nature. At the fourth of these, the turning-point of some subcycle of the great Return, she prays that the Image of the Light may not be turned or averted from her, for the time is come when "those who turn in the lowest regions" should be regarded--"the mystery which is made the type of the Race." (_F._, 471.) Again in the introduction to _The Book of the Great Logos according to the Mystery_, the disciples beg the Master to explain the Mystery of the Word. Jesus answers that the Life of His Father consists in their purifying their souls from all earthly stain, and making them to become the Race of the Mind, so that they may be filled with understanding and by His teaching perfect themselves. (_F._, 528.) Finally in the marvellous _Untitled Apocalypse_ of the Bruce Codex we read: "These words said the Lord of the Universe to them, and disappeared from them, and hid Himself from them. "And the Births-of-matter rejoiced that they had been remembered, and were glad that they had come out of the narrow and difficult place, and prayed to the Hidden Mystery: "'Give us authority that we may create for ourselves æons and worlds according to Thy Word, upon which Thou didst agree with Thy servant; for Thou alone art the changeless One, Thou alone the boundless, the uncontainable, self-taught, self-born Self-father; Thou alone art the unshakeable and unknowable; Thou alone art Silence and Love, and Source of all; Thou alone art virgin of matter, spotless; whose Race no man can tell, whose manifestation no man can comprehend.'" (_F._, 564.) To understand, man must pass beyond the stage of man, and self-realize himself as "kin to Him"--the Logos. It is, however, doubtful whether "Race" is the correct reading in our text; but as it is the clear reading in 15 the above notes are germane to our study. The MS. apparently reads "every Limb." This again is one of the most general Gnostic mystical terms, and is taken over from the Osiric Mysteries. The Limbs of the God are scattered abroad, and collected together again in the resurrection. The inner meaning of this graphic symbolism may be gleaned from the following striking passages. In a MS. of the Gnostic Marcus there is a description of the method of symbolizing the Great Body of the Heavenly Man, whereby the twenty-four letters of the Greek alphabet were assigned in pairs to the twelve Limbs. This Body was the symbol of the ideal economy, dispensation or ordering of the universe, its planes, regions, hierarchies, and powers. (_F._, 366.) This also is the true Body of man, the Source of all his bodies. And so we read the following mystery-saying in _The Gospel of Eve_: