4. "John, to the multitude below, in Jerusalem, I am being crucified, and pierced with spears and reeds, and vinegar and gall is being given Me to drink. To thee now I speak, and give ear to what I say. 'Twas I who put it in thy heart to ascend this Mount, that thou mightest hear what disciple should learn from Master, and man from God." 5. [98 (xiii.)] And having thus spoken, He showed me a Cross of Light set up, and round the Cross a vast multitude, and therein one form and a similar appearance, and in the Cross another multitude not having one form. 6. And I beheld the Lord Himself above the Cross. He had, however, no shape, but only as it were a voice--not, however, this voice to which we are accustomed, but one of its own kind and beneficent and truly of God, saying unto me: 7. "John, one there needs must be to hear those things, from Me; for I long for one who will hear. 8. "This Cross of Light is called by Me for your sakes sometimes Word (Logos), sometimes Mind, sometimes Jesus, sometimes Christ, sometimes Door, sometimes Way, sometimes Bread, sometimes Seed, sometimes Resurrection, sometimes Son, sometimes Father, sometimes Spirit, sometimes Life, sometimes Truth, sometimes Faith, sometimes Grace. 9. "Now those things [it is called] as towards men; but as to what it is in truth, itself in its own meaning to itself, and declared unto Us, [it is] the defining (or delimitation) of all things, both the firm necessity of things fixed from things unstable, and the 'harmony' of Wisdom. 10. "And as it is Wisdom in 'harmony,' there are those on the Right and those on the Left--powers, authorities, principalities, and dæmons, energies, threats, powers of wrath, slanderings--and the Lower Root from which hath come forth the things in genesis. 11 [99]. "This, then, is the Cross which by the Word (Logos) hath been the means of 'cross-beaming' all things--at the same time separating off the things that proceed from genesis and those below it [from those above], and also compacting them all into one. 12. "But this is not the cross of wood which thou shalt see when thou descendest hence; nor am I he that is upon the cross--[I] whom now thou seest not, but only hearest a voice. 13. "I was held [to be] what I am not, not being what I was to many others; nay, they will call Me something else, abject and not worthy of Me. As, then, the Place of Rest is neither seen nor spoken of, much more shall I, the Lord of it, be neither seen [nor spoken of]. 14. [100 (xiv.)] "Now the multitude of one appearance round the Cross is the Lower Nature. And as to those whom thou seest in the Cross, if they have not also one form, [it is because] the whole Race (or every Limb) of Him who descended hath not yet been gathered together. 15. "But when the Upper Nature, yea, the Race that is coming unto Me, in obedience to My Voice, is taken up, then thou who now hearkenest to Me, shalt become it, and it shall no longer be what it is now, but above them as I am now.