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The Gospel of Phillip.

A Hebrew makes another Hebrew, and such a person is called

proselyte. But a proselyte does not make another proselyte. Some both exist just as they are and make others like themselves,

while others simply exist. The slave seeks only to be free, but he does not hope to acquire the estate of his master. But the son

is not only a son but lays claim to the inheritance of the father. Those who are heirs to the dead are themselves dead, and they

inherit the dead. Those who are heirs to what is living are alive, and they are heirs to both what is living and the dead. The dead

are heirs to nothing. For how can he who is dead inherit? If he who is dead inherits what is living he will not die, but he who is

dead will live even more.

A Gentile does not die, for he has never lived in order that he may die. He who has believed in the truth has found life, and this

one is in danger of dying, for he is alive. Ever since Chirst came the world is created, the cities adorned, the dead carried out.

When we were Hebrews we were orphans and had only our mother, but when we became Christians we had both father and

mother.

Those who sow in winter reap in summer. The winter is the world, the summer the other Aeon. Let us sow in the world that we

may reap in the summer. Because it is not fitting for us not to pray in the winter. Summer follows winter. But if any man reap in

the winter hw will not actually reap but pluck out, since this sort of thing will not provide him a harvest. It is not only noe that the

fruit will not come forth, but also on the Sabbath his field will be barren.

Christ came to ransom some, to save others, to redeem others. He ransomed those who were strangers and made them his

own. And he set his own apart, those whom he gave as a pledge in his will. It was not only when he appeared that he

voluntarily laid down his life, but he voluntarily laid down his life from the very day the world came into being. Then he came

forth in order to take it, since it has been given as a pledge. It fell into the hands of robbers and was taken captive , but he

saved it. He redeemed the good people in the world as well as the evil.

Light and Darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable.Because of this neither are

the good good, nor evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve into its original nature. But

those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal.

Names given to worldly things are very deceptive for they divert our thoughts from what is correct to what is incorrect. Thus

one who hears the word God does not perceive what is correct, but perceives what is incorrect.So also with the Father and

the Son and Holy Spirit and life and light and ressurrection and the Church(Ekklesia) and all the rest ‑ people do not

perceive what is correct. The names which are heard in the world to deceive. If they were in the Aeon, they would at no time

be used as names in the world.Nor were they set among worldly things. They have an end in the Aeon.

One single name is not uttered in the world, the name which the Father gave to the Son, the name above all things; the name of

the Father. For the Son would not become Father unless he wears the name of the Father. Thos who have this name know it,

buut they do not speak it. But those who do not have it do not know it.

But truth brought names into existennce in the world because it is not possible to teach without names. Truth is one single thing

and it is also many things for our sakes who learn this one thing in love through many things. The powers wanted to deceive

man, since they saw that he had kinship with those that are truly good. They took the name of those that are good and gave it to

those who are not good, so that through the names they might deceive him and bind them to those that are not good. And

afterward, if they do them a favor, they will be made to remove them from those that are not good and place them among those

that are good. These things they knew, for they wanted to take the free man and make him a slave to them forever.

These are the powers which contend against man, not wishing him to be saved. For if man is saved, there will not be any

sacrifices and animals will not be offered to the powers. They were indeed offering them up alive, but then they offered them up

they died. As for (the Son of?) man, they offered him up to God dead, and he lived.

Before Christ came there was no bread in the world, just as Paradise, the place were Adam was, had many trees to nourish the

animals but no wheat to sustain man. Man used to feed like the animals, but when Christ came, the perfect man, he brought

bread from heaven in order that man might be nourished with the food of man. The powers thought that it was by their own

power and will they were doing what they did ,but the Holy Spirit in secret accomplished everything through them as it wished.

Truth, which existed since the beginning, is sown everywhere. And many see it as it is sown, but few are they who see it as it is

reaped.

Some said,Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit, they are in error. They do not know what they are saying.When did a woman

ever conceive by a woman? Mary is the virgin whom no power defiled. She is a great anathema to the Hebrews, who are the

apostles and apostolic men. This virgin whom no power defiled; the powers defiled themselves. And the Lord would not have

said My Father who is in Heaven[Matt16:17] unless he had had another father, but he would have said simply My father.

The Lord said to the disciples Bring out from every other hourse Bring into the house of the Father. But do not take

anything in the house of the Father nor carry it off.

Jesus is a hidden name; Christ is a revealed name for this reason:Jesus does not exist in any other language, but his name is

always Jesus as he is called. Christ is also his name; in Syriac it is Messiah, in Greek it is Christ. Certainly all the others have it

according to their own language.The Nazarene is he who reveals what is hidden. Christ has everything in himself ‑ man, angel,

mystery, and the Father.

Those who say that the Lord died first and then rose up are in error, for he rose up first and then died. If one does not first

attain the ressurrection will he not die? As God lives, he would already be dead.

No one will hide a large valuable objectin something large, but many a time one has tossed countless thousands into a thing

worth a penny. Compare the Soul. It is a precious thing and it came to be in a contemptible body.

Some are afraid lest they rise naked. Because of this they wish to rise in the flesh, and they do not know that it is those who

wear the flesh who are naked. It is those who [...] to unclothe themselves who are not naked.Flesh and Blood shall not be

able to inherit the kingdom of God[1Cor15:50] What is this which will not inherit? This which is on us. But what is this very

thing which will inherit? It is that which belongs to Jesus and his blood. Because of this he said He who shall not eat my flesh

and drink my blood has not life in him[John6:53] What is it? His flesh is the word, and his blood is the Holy Spirit. He who

have received these has food and he has drink and clothing. I find fault with the others who say that it will not rise. Then both of

them are at fault. You say that the flesh will not rise. But tell me what will rise, that we may honour you. You say the Spirit in the

flesh, and it is also this light in the flesh. But this too is a matter which is in the flesh, for whatever you shall say, you say nothing

outside the flesh.It is necessary to rise in this flesh, since everything exists in it.In this world those who put on garments are

better than the garments. In the Kingdom of Heaven the garments are better than those that put them on.

It is through water and fire that the whole place is purified ‑ the visible by the visible, the hidden by the hidden. There are some

things hidden through those visible. There is water in the water, there is fire in the chrism. Jesus took them all by stealth, for he

did not reveal himself in the manner in which he was, but it was in the manner in which they would be able to see him that he

revealed himself. He revealed himself to them all. He revealed himself as great to the great. He revealed himself as small to the

small. He revealed himself to the angels as an angel. Because of this his word hid itself from everyone. Some indeed saw him,

thinking that they were seeing themselves, but when he appeared to his disciples in glory on the mount he was not small. He

became great, but he made the disciples great,that they might be able to see his greatness. He said on that day in the

Thanksgiving You who have joined the perfect, the light, with the Holy Spirit, unite the angels with us also, the images.

Do not despise the lamb, for without it, it is not possible to see the king.No one will be able to go in to the king if he is naked.

The heavenly man has many more sons than the earthly man.If the sons if Adam are many, although they die, how much more

the sons of the perfect manm they who do not die but are always begotten. The father makes a son, and the son has not the

power to make a son. For he who has been begotten has not the power to beget, but the sons gets brothers for himself, not

sons. All who are begotten in the world in a natural way, and the others in a spiritual way. Those who are begotten by him cry

out from that place to the perfect man, because they are nourished on the promise concerning the heavenly place. If the word

has gone out from that place it would become perfect. For it is by a kiss that the perfect conceive and give birth. For this

reason we also kiss one another. We receive conception from the grace which is in each other.

There were three who always walked with the Lord; Mary, his mother, and his sister and Magdalene, the one who was his

companion. His sister and his mother and his companion were each a Mary.

The Father and the Son is both single names, the Holy Spirit is a double name. For they are everywhere: they are in the

concealed, they are in the revealed. The Holy Spirit is the revealed: it is below. It is in the concealed: it is above.

The saints are served by evil powers, for they are blinded by the Holy Spirit into thinking that they are serving an ordinary man

whenever they do something for the saints. Because of this a disciple asked the Lord one day for something of this world. He

said to him: Ask your mother, and she will give you of the things which are another`s.

The apostles said to the disciples:May our offering obtain salt They called Sophia salt. Without it no offering is acceptable.

But Sophia is without child. For this reason she is called a trace of salt . But where they will be in their own way, the Holy

Spirit will also be, and her children are many.

What the father possesses belongs to the son, and the son himself, so long as he is small, is not entrusted with what is his. But

when he becomes a man his father give him all that he possesses. Those who have gone astray, whom the spirit itself begets,

usaully go astray because of the Spirit. Thus, by this one and the same breath, the fire blazes and is put out.

Echamoth is one thing and Echmoth, another. Echamoth is Wisdom simply, but Echmoth is the Wisdom of death which is the

one who knows death [called The little wisdom]. There are domestic animals like the bull and the ass and others of this kind.

Others are wild and live apart in the deserts. Man ploughs the field by means of the domestic animals, and from this he feeds

both himself and the animals, wether tame or wild. Compare the perfect man. It is through powers which are submissive that he

ploughs, prepairing for everything to come into being. For it is because of this that the whole place stands, wether good or evil,

the right and the left. The Holy Spirit shepherds everyone and rules all the powers, the tame ones and the wild ones, as well as

those which are unique. For indeed she gathers them and shuts them inn, in order that these, even if they wish, will not be able

to escape. He who has been created us beautiful, and you would find his sons noble creations. If he was not created, but

begotten, you would find that his seed was noble. But now he was created and he begot. What nobility is this? First, adultery

came into being, afterward murder. And he was begotten in adultery, for he was the child of the Serpent. So he became a

murderer, just like his father, and he killed his brother. Indeed, every act of sexual intercourse which has accured between

those who are unlike one another is adultery.

God is a dyer. As the good dyes which are called true, dissolve with the things dyed in them, so it is with those whom God has

dyed.Since the dyes is immortal, they are immortal by means of his co,ors. Now God dips what he dips in water. It is not

possible for anyone to see anything of the things that actually exist unless he becomes like them. This is not the way with man in

the world: he sees the sun without being a sun; and he sees the heaven and the earth and all other things, but he is not these

things. You saw the Spirit, and you became spirit. You saw Christ and you became Christ [a christian]. You saw the Father

and you shall become Father. So in this place you see everything and do not see yourself; but in that place you do see yourself

‑ and what you see you shall become.

Faith receives, Love gives. No one will be able to receive without faith.No one will be able to give without love. Because of

this, in order that we may indeed receive, we believe; but it is so that we may love and give, since if one does not give in love,

he has no profit from what he has given. He who has not received the Lord is still a Hebrew.

The apostles who were before us had these names for him: Jesus,the Nazorean, Messiah, that is , Jesus, the Nazorean,

Christ The last name is Christ, the first is Jesus, that in the middle is the Nazarne Messiah has two meanings, both the Christ

and the measured. Jesus in Hebrew is the redemption Nazara is the Truth. The Nazarene then, is the Truth.Christ has

been measured. The Nazarene and Jesus are they who have been measured.

When the pearl is cast down into the mud it does not become greatly despised, nor if it is anointed with balsam oil will it

become more precious. But it always has value in the eyes of the owner. Compare the Sons of God, whatever they may be.

They still have value in the eyes of their Father.

God is a man‑eater. For this reason men are sacrificed to him. Before men were sacrificed animals were being sacrificed, since

those to whom they were sacrificed were not gods. Glass decanters and earthenware jugs are both made by means of fire. But

if glass decanters break they are done over, for they came into being through a breath. If earthenware jugs break, however,

they are destroyed, for they came into being without breath.

An ass which turns a millstone did a hundred miles of walking. When it was loosened, it found that it was still at the same place.

There are men who make many journeys, but make no progress towards a destination. When evening came upon them, they

saw neither city nor village, neither creation nor nature, power nor angel. In vain have the wretches labored.

The eucharist is Jesus. For he is called in Syriac Pharisatha which is the one who is spread out for Jesus came crufifying the

world. The Lord went into the dye works of Levi. He took seventy‑two different colors and threw them into the vat. He took

them out all white. And he said, Even so the Son of Man come as a dyer

As for the Wisdom who is called the barren she is the mother of the angels.And the companion of the Saviour is Mary

Magdalene. But Christ loved her more than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on the mouth. The rest of the disciples

were offended by it and expressed disapproval. They said to him Why do you love her more than all of us? The Saviour

answered and said to them,Why do I not love you like her?.When a blind man and one who sees are together in the darkness,

they are no different from one another. When the light comes, then he who sees will see the light, and he who is blind will

remain in the darkness. The Lord said Blessed is he who is before he came into being. For he who is, has been and shall

be The superiority of man is not obvious to the eye but lies in what is hidden from view. Consequently, he has mastery over the

animals which are stronger than he is and great in terms of the obvious and the hidden. This enables them to survive. But if man

is separated from them, they slay one another and bite one another. They ate one another because they did not find any food.

But now they have found food because man tilled the soil.

If one goes down into the water and comes up again without having received anything, and says I am a Chr�stian he has

borrowed the name at interest. But if he receives the Holy Spirit, he has the name as a gift. He who has received a gift does not

have to give it back, but of him who has borrowed it at interest, payment is demanded. This is the way it happens to one when

one experiences a mystery. Great is the mystery of marriage! For without it the world would not have existed. Now the

existence of the world depends on man, and the existence of man on marriage. Think of the undefiled relationship, for it

possesses a great power. Its image consists of a defilement of the form.

As for the unclean spirits, there are males among them and there are females. The males are they which unite with the souls

which inhabit a female form, but the females are they which are mingled with those in a male form, through one who was

disobedient. And none shall be able to escape them, since they detain him if he does not receive a male power or a female

power ‑ the bridegroom and the bride.One receives them from the mirrored bridal chamber. When the wanton women see a

male sitting alone, they leap down on him and play with him and defile him. So also the lecherous men, when they see a

beautiful woman sitting alone, they persuade her and comple her, wishing to defile her. But if they see the man and his wife

sitting beside one another, the female cannot come into the man, nor can the male come into a woman. So if the image and the

angel are united with one another, neither can any venture to go into the man or the woman.

He who comes out of the world can no longer be detained, because he was in the world. It is evident that he is above desire

and fear. He is master over nature. He is superior to envy. If anyone else comes, they seize him and throttle him. And how will

this one be able to escape the great grasping powers? How will he be able to hide from them? Often some come and say We

are faithful in order that they may be able to escape the unclean spirits and the demons. For if they had the Holy Spirit no

unclean spirit would cleave to them. Fear not the flesh nor love it. If you fear it, it will gain mastery over you. If you love it, it will

swallow and paralyzr you. Either will he be in this world or in the ressurrection ot in the places of the middle.God forbid that I

be found in them! In this world there is good and evil.Its good is not good, and its evil not evil. But there is evil after this world

which is truly evil ‑ what is called the Middle,It is death. While we are in this world it is fitting for us to acquire the ressurrection

for ourselves, so that when we strip off the flesh we may be found in rest and not walk in the Middle.For many go astray on the

way. For it is good to come forth from the world before one has sinned.

Some neither desire to sin nor are able to sin. Others, even if they desire to sin, are not better off for not having done it, for this

desire makes them sinners. But even if some do not desire to sin, rightousness will be concealed for them both ‑ those who

desire not and do not. An apostolic man in a vision saw some people shut up in a house afire and bound with fiery chains, lying

in flaming ointment. And he said to them Why are they not able to be saved? They answered They did not desire it. They

received this place as punishment,what is called the outer darkness, because he is thrown out into it. It is from water and fire

that the soul and the spirit came into being. It is from water and fire and light that the son of the bridal chamber came into being.

The fire is the chrism, the light is the fire. I am not referring to that fire which has no form, but the other fire whose for are white,

which is bright and beautiful, and which gives beauty.

Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in types and images. One will receive the truth in any other way. There is

a rebirth and an image of rebirth.It is certainly necessary that they should be born again through the image. The bridegroom and

the image must enter through the image into the truth: this is the restoration. It is appropiate that those who do not have it only

acquire the name of the Father and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, but that the have acquired it on their own. If one does not

acquire the name for himself, the name Christian will also be taken from him. But one receives them in the aromatic unction of

the power of the cross.This power the apostles called the right and the left For this person is no longer a Christian but a

Christ.

The Lord did everything in a mystery, a baptism and a chrism and a eucharist and a redemption and a bridal chamber. The

Lord said,I came to make the things below like the things above, and the things outside like the inside. I came to unite

them in that place He revealed himself in this place through types and images. Those who say, There is a heavenly man and

there is one above him are wrong.For he who is revealed in Heaven is that heavenly man, the one who is called the one who

is below, and he to whom the hidden belongs is that one who is above him. For it is good that they should say, The inner and

outer, with what is outside the outer. Because of this the Lord called destruction the the outer darkness; there is not another

outside of it. He said,My Father who is secret. He said , Go into your chamber and shut the door behind you, and pray to

your Father who is secret[Matt6:6], the one who is within them all. But that which is within them all is the fullness. Beyond it

there is nothing else within it. This is that of which they say, That which is above them.

Before Christ some came from a place they were no longer able to enter, and they went where they were no longer able to

come out. The Christ came. Those who went in he brought out, and those who went out, he brought in. When Eve was still

with Adam, death did not exist. When she was separated from him, death came into being. If he again becomes complete and

attains his former self, death will be no more.

My God, my God, why, O Lord, have you forsaken me? [Mark15:23].It was on the cross that he said these words, for it

was there he was divided.

Everyone who has been begotten through him who destroys did not emanate from God.

The Lord rose from the dead. He became as he used to be, but now his body was perfect. He did indeed possess flesh, but

this flesh is true flesh. Our flesh is not true, but we only possess an image of that which is true. A bridal chamber is not for the

animals, nor is it for the slaves, nor for the defiled women, but it is for free men and virgins. Through the Holy Spirit we are

indeed begotten again, but we are begotten through Christ in the two. We are anointed through the Spirit. When we were

begotten by we were united. None shall be able to see himself either in the water or in a mirror without the light. Nor again will

you be able to see in light without mirror or water. For this reason it is fitting to baptize in the two, in the light and in the water.

Now the light is the chrism.

There were three buildings specifically for sacrifice in Jerusalem. The one facing the west was called The Holy. Another facing

the South was called The Holy of the Holy. The third facing the East was called The Holy of the Holies, the place where only

the high priest enters. Baptism is the Holy building. Redemption is the Holy of the Holy building. The Holy of the Holies is the

bridal chamber. Baptism includes ressurrection and the redemption; the redemption takes place in the bridal chamber. But the

bridal chamber is in that which is superior to it and the others, because you will not find anything like it. Those who are familiar

with it are those who prays in the Holy in Jerusalem. There are some in Jerusalem, awaiting the Kingdom of Heaven. These are

called the Holy of the Holies because before the veil was rent we had no other bridal chamber except for the image of the

bridal chamber which is above. Because of this, its veil was rent from top to bottom. For it was fitting for some from below to

go upward.

The powers do not see those who are clothed in the perfect light, and consequently are not able to detain them. One will clothe

himself in this light sacramentally in the union.

If the woman had not separated from the man, she would not die with the man. His separation became the beginning of death.

Because of this Christ came to repair the separation which was from the beginning and to again unite the two, to give life to

those who died as a result of the separation and unite them. But the woman is united to her husband in the bridal chamber.

Indeed, those who have united in the bridal chamber will no longer be separated. Thus Eve separated from Adam because she

was never united with him in the bridal chamber.

The soul of Adam came into being by means of a breath(pneuma), which is a synonym for spirit(Pneuma). The Spirit given him

is his mother. His soul was replaced by a spirit. When he was united to the spirit, he spoke words incomprehensible to the

powers. They envied him because they were separated from the spiritual union. This separation afforded them the opportunity

to fashion for themselves the symbolic bridal chamber so that men would be defiled.

Jesus revealed himself at the Jordan: it was the fullness of the Kingdom of Heaven.He who was begotten before everything was

begotten anew. He who was once anointed was anointed anew. He who was redeemed in turn redeemed others.

Is it permitted to utter a mystery? The Father of everything united with the virgin who came down, and a fire shone for him on

that day. He appeared in the great bridal chamber. Therefore his body came into being on that very day.It left the bridal

chamber as one who came into being from the bridegroom and the bride. So Jesus established everything in it through these. It

is fitting for each of the disciples to enter into his rest.

Adam came into being from two virgins, from the Spirit and from the virgin of earth.Christ therefore, was born from a virgin to

rectify the Fall which occured in the beginning.

There are two trees growing in Paradise. One bears animals, the other bears men. Adam ate from the tree which bore animals.

He became an animal and he brought forth animals. For this reason the children of Adam worship animals. The tree whose gifte

Adam ate is the Tree of Knowledge.That is why sins increased. If he ate the fruit of the other tree, that is to say, the Tree of

Life, the one which bears men, then the gods would worship man. For in the beginning God created man. But now men create

God. That is the way it is in the world ‑ men make gods and worship their creation. It would be fitting for the gods to worship

men!

Surely what a man accomplishes depends on his abilities. We even refer to one`s accomplishments as abilities. Among his

accomplishments are his children. They originate in a moment of ease. Thus his abilities determine what he may accomplish,, but

this ease is clearly evident in the children.You will find that this applies directly to the image. Here is the man made after the

image, accomplishing things with his physical strenght but produving his children with ease. In this world slaves serve the free. In

the Kingdom of Heaven the free will minister to the slaves: the children of the bridal chamber will minister to the children of the

marriage. The children of the bridal chamber have just one name. Together they shall share rest. They need take no other form

because they have contemplation, comprehending by insight. They are numorous because they do not put their treasure in the

things below, which are despised, but in the glories which are above, though they did not yet know them.

Those who will be baptized go down into the water. But Christ, by coming out of the water, will consecrate it, so that they who

have received the baptism in his name may be perfect. For he said,Thus we should fulfill all righteousness[Matt3:15]

Those who say they will die first and then rise are in error. If they do not first receive the ressurrection while they live, when

they die they will receive nothing. So also when speaking about baptism they say Baptism is a great thing because if people

receive it it they will live. Phillip the apostle said, Joseph the carpenter planted a garden because he needed wood for his

trade. it was he who made the cross from the trees which he planted. His own offspring hung on that which he planted.

His offspring was Jesus and the planting was the cross. But the Tree of Life is in the middle of the Garden.However,it is

from the olive tree that we got the chrism, and from the chrism, the ressurrection.

This world is a corpse‑eater. All the things eaten in it themselves die also. Truth is a life‑eater. Therefore no one nourished by

truth will die. It was from that place that Jesus came and brought food.To those who so desired he gave life, that they might not

die.

God planted a Garden. Man was put into the Garden. There were many trees there for him, and man lived in this place with the

blessing of the image of God.The things which are in it I will eat as I wish. This garden is the place where they will say to me, O

man , eat this or do not eat that, just as you wish This is the place where I will eat all things, since the Tree of Knowledge is

there. That one killed Adam, but here the Tree of Knowledge made men alive. The law was the tree. It has power to give the

knowledge of good and evil. It neither removed him from evil, nor did it set him in the good, but it created death for those who

ate it, For when he said, Eat this, do not eat that, it became the beginning of death.

The chrism is superior to the baptism, for it is from the word Chrism that we have been called Christians certainly not because

of the word baptism. And it is because of the chrism that the Christ has his name. For the Father anointed the Son, and the

Son anointed the apostles, and the apostles anointed us. He who has been anointed possesses everything, he possesses the

ressurrection, the light, the cross, the Holy Spirit. The Father gave him this in the bridal chamber; he merely accepted the gift.

The Father was in the Son and the Son in the Father. This is the Kingdom of Heaven.

The Lord have said it well, Some have entered the Kingdom of Heaven laughing and they have come out.. They do not

remain there ‑ the one because he is not a Christian, the other because he regrets his action afterward. And as soon as Christ

went down into the water, he came out laughing at everything of this world, not because he considers it a trifle, but because he

is full of contempt for it. He who wants to enter the Kingdom of Heaven will attain it. If he despises everything of this world and

scorrns it as a trifle, he will come out laughing. So it is also with the bread and the cup and the oil, even though there is another

one superior to these.

The world came about through a mistake. For he who created it wanted to create it imperishable and immortal. He fell short of

attaining his desire. For the world never was imperishable, but sons are. Nothing will be able to receive imperishability if it does

not first become a son.But he who has not the ability to receive, how much more will he be unable to give?

The Cup of prayer contains wine and water, since it is appointed as the type of the blood for which thanks is given. And it is full

of the Holy Spirit, and it belongs to the wholly perfect man. When we drink this, we shall receive for ourselves the perfect man.

The living water is a body. It is neccessary that we put on the living man. Therefore, when he is about to go down into the

water, he unclothes himself, in order that he may put on the living man.

A horse sires a horse, a man begets man, a god brings forth a god. Compare the bridegroom and the bride. Their children were

conceived in the bridal chamber.No Jew was ever born to Greek parents as long as the world has existed. And, as a Christian

people. we ourselves do not descend from the Jews.There was another people and these blessed ones are referred to as The

chosen people of the Living God and The true man and Son of Man and the seed of the Son of Man. In the world it is

called this true people. Where they are, there are the sons of the bridal chamber.

Whereas in this world the union is one of husband with wife ‑ a case of strenght complemented with weakness ‑ in the Aeon the

form of the union is different, although we refer to them by the same names.There are other names,however, they are superior

to every other name that is named and are stronger than the strong. For where there is a show of strenght, there those who

excel in strenght appear.These are not separate things, but both of them are this one single thing.This is the one which will not

be able to rise above the heart of flesh.

Is it not necessary for all those who possess everything to know themselves? Some indeed, if they do not know themselves, will

not enjoy their possessions. Not only will they be unable to detain the perfect man, but they will not be able to see him, for if

they see him they will detain him. There is no other way for a person to acquire this quality except by putting on the perfect light

and become perfect oneself. Everyone who has put this on will enter the kingdom. This is the perfect light, and it is necessary

that we, by all means, become perfect men before we leave the world. He who has received everything and has not rid himself

of these places will not be able ti share in that place, but will go to the Middle as imperfect. Only Jesus knows the end of this

person.

The priest is completely holy, down to his very body. For if he has taken the bread, will he consecrate it? Or the cup or

anything else that he gets, does he consecrate them? Then how will he not consecrate the body also? By perfecting the water of

baptism, Jesus emptied it of death. Thus we do go down into the water, but we do not go down into death in order that we

may not be poured out into the spirit of the world. When this spirit blows, it brings the winter. When the Holy Spirit breathes,

the summer comes.

He who has knowledge of the truth is a free man, but the free man does not sin, for He who sins is the slave of sin[John8:34]

Truth is the mother, knowledge the father. Those who think that sinning does not apply for them are called free by the world.

Knowledge of the truth merely makes such people arrogant, which is what the words, it makes them free mean. It even gives

them a sense of superiority over the whole world. But Love builds up [1Cor8:1].In fact, he who is really free through

knowledge is a slave because of love for those who have not yet been able to attain the freedom which comes from knowledge.

Knowledge makes them capable of becoming free. Love never calls somethings its own, and yet it may actually possess that

very thing.It never says,This is mine but All these are yours. Spiritual love is wine and fragrance. All those who anoints

themselves with it take pleasure in it. While those who are anointed are present, those nearby profit from the fragrance. If those

anointed with ointment withdraw from them and leave, then those anointed, who merely stand nearby, still remain in their bad

odor.The samaritan gave nothing but wine and oil to the wounded man. It is nothing other than the ointment. It healed the

wounds, for love covers a multitude of sins[1Pet4:8]

The children a woman bears resemble the man who loves her. If her husband loves her, then they resemble her husband. If it is

an adulterer, then they resemble the adulterer. Frequently, if a woman sleep with her husband out of necessity, while her heart is

with the adulterer with whim she usually has intercourse , the child she will bear is born resembling the adulterer. Now you who

live together with the Son of God, love not the world, but love the Lord.

The human being has intercourse with the human being. The horse has intercourse with the horse, the ass with the ass.

Members of a race usually have associated with those of like race. So spirit mingles with spirit, and thought consorts with

thought, and light shares with light. If you are born a human being, it is the human being which will love you.If you become a

spirit, it is the spirit which will be joined to you. If you become thought, it is thought which will mingle with you. If you become

light, it is light which will share with you. If you become one of those who belong above,it is those who belong above who will

rest in you. If you become horse or ass or bull or dog or sheep or another of the animals which are outside and below, then

neither human bein nor spirit nor thought nor light will be able to love you. Neither those who belong above nor those who

belong within will be able to rest in you, and you have no part in them. He who is a slave against his will, will be able to become

free.

Farming in the world requires the cooperation of four essential elements.A harvest is gathered into the barn only as a result of

the natural action of water, earth, wind and light. God`s farming likewise has four elements ‑ faith, hope, love, and knowledge.

Faith is our earth, that in which we take root.And hope is the water through which we are nourished.Love is the wind through

which we grow.Knowledge is the light through which we ripen. Grace exists in four ways; it is earthborn, it is heavenly; it comes

from the highest heaven; and it resides in truth.

Blessed is the one who on no occasion caused a soul distress. That person is Jesus Christ.He came to the whole place and did

not burden anyone.Therefore the blessed is the one who is like this, because he is a perfect man.This indeed is the Word.Tell us

about it, since it is difficult to define.How shall we be able to accomplish such a great thing? How whill he give everyone

comfort? Above all, it is not proper to cause anyone distress ‑ whether the person is great or small, unbeliever or believer ‑ and

then give comfort only to those who take satisfaction in good deeds.Some find it advantageous to give comfort to the one who

has fared well.He who does good deeds cannot give comfort to such people, for it goes against his will. He is unable to cause

distress, however, since he does not afflict them.To be sure, the one who fares well sometimes causes people distress . not that

he intends to do so; rather, it is their own wickedness which is responsible for their distress.He who possesses the qualities of

the perfect man rejoice in the good.Some, however, are terribly distressed by all this.

There was a householder who had every conceiveable thing, be it son or slave or cattle or dog or pig or corn or barley or chaff

or gress or castor oil or meat and acorn.Now he was a sensible fellow and he knew what the food of each one was.He himself

served the children bread and meat.He served the slaves castor oil and meal. Anf he threw barley and chaff and grass to the

cattle. He threw bones to the dogs, and to the pigs he threw acorns and scraps of bread. Compare the disciple of God: if he is

a sensible fellow he understands what discipleship is all about.The bodily forms will not deceive him, but he will look at the

condition of the soul of each one and speak with him.There are many animals in the world which are in a human form.When he

identifies them, to the swine he will throw acorns, to the cattle he will throw barley and chaff and grass, to the dogs he will

throw bones.To the slaves he will give only the elementary lessons, but to the children he will give the complete instruction.

There is the Son of man and there is the son of the Son of man. The Lord is the Son of man, and the son of the Son of man is

he who created through the Son of man.The Son of man received from God the capacity to create.He also has the ability to

beget.He who has received the ability to create is a creature.He who has received the ability to beget is an offspring.He who

creates cannot beget. He who begets also has the ability to create.Now they say, He who creates begets.But his so‑called

offspring is merely a creature.Therefore his children are not offspring but creatures.He who create works openly; he himself is

visible. He who begets, begets in private; he is himself hidden, since he is superior to every image.He who creates, creates

openly. But one who begets, begets children in private.No one will be able to know when the husband and the wife have

intercourse with one another, except the two in them.Indeed, marriage in the world is a mystery for those who have taken a

wife.If there is a hidden quality to the marriage of defilement, how much more is the undefiled marriage a true mystery!It is not

fleshly but pure.It belongs not to desire but to the will.It belongs not to the darkness or the night but to the day and the light.If a

marriage is open to the public, it has become prostitution, and the bride plays the harlot not only when she is impregnated by

another man but even if she slips out of her bedroom and is seen.Let her show herself only to the father and her mother and the

friend of the bridegroom and the sons of the bridegroom. There are permitted to enter every day into the bridal chamber. But

let the others yearn to listen to her voice and to enjoy her ointment, and let them feed from the crumbs that fall from the table,

like dogs.Bridegrooms and brides belong to the bridal chamber. No one shall be able to see the bridegroom with the bride

unless one becomes one.

When Abraham rejoiced that he was to see what he was to see, he circumcised the flesh of the foreskin, teaching us that it is

proper to destroy the flesh.

Most things in the world, as long as their inner parts are hidden, stand upright and live. If they are revealed they die, as is

illustrated by the visible man: as long as the intestines of the man are hidden, the man is alive; when his intestines are exposed

and come out of him, the man will die. So also with the tree: while its root is hidden it sprouts and grows. If its root is exposed,

the tree dries up.So it is with every birth that is in the world, not only with the revealed but with the hidden.For so long as the

root of wickedness is hidden, it is strong.But when it is recognized, it is dissolved.When it is revealed, it perishes.That is why

the word say, Already the axe is laid at the root of the tree[Matt3:10] It will not merely cut ‑ what is cut sprouts again ‑ but

the ax penetrates deeply until it brings up the root.Jesus pulled out the root of the whole place, while others only did it partially.

As for ourselves, let each one of us dig down after the root of evil which is within one, and let one pluck it out of one`s heart

from the root.It will be plucked out if we recognize it. But if we are ignorant of it, it takes root in us and produces its fruit in our

heart.It masters us.We are its slaves.It takes us captive, to make us do what we do not want; and what we do want we do not

do. It is powerful because we have not recognized it. While it exists it is active.Ignorance is the mother of all evil.Ignorance will

eventuate in death, because thos who come from ignorance neither were nor are nor shall be.But those who are in the truth will

be perfect when all the truth is revealed.For truth is like ignorance: while it is hidden it rests in itself, but when it is revealed and

is recognized, it is praised inasmuch as it is stronger than ignorance and the error. It gives freedom.The word said, If you know

the truth, the truth will make you free[John8:32] Ignorance is a slave.Knowledge is freedom.If we know the truth, we shall

find the fruits of the truth within us.If we are joined to it, it will bring fulfillment.

At the present time we have the manifest things of creation. We say, The strong are they who are held in high regard.And

the obscure are the weak who are despised. Contrast the manifest things of truth: they are weak and despised, while the

hidden things are strong and held in high regard. The mysteries of truth are revealed, though in type and image. The bridal

chamber, however, remains hidden.It is the Holy in the Holy.The veil at first concealed how God controlled the creation, but

when the veil is rent and the things inside are revealed, this house will be left desolate, or rather ‑ it will be destroyed. But the

whole inferior godhead will flee from these places into the holy of holies, for it wil not be able to mix with the unmixed light and

the flawless fullness, but will be under the wings of the cross and its arms.This asrk will be its salvation when the flood of

water(?) surges over them.If some belong to the order of the priesthood, they will be able to go within the veil with the high

priest. For this reason the veil was not rent at the top only since it would have been revealed only to those below. But it was

rent from the top to bottom.Those above opened to us who are below, in order that we may go into the secret of truth. This

truly is what is held in high regard, since it is strong! But we shall go into there by means of lowly types and forms of

weakness.They are lowly indeed when compared with the perfect glory. There is glory which surpasses glory.There is power

which surpasses power.Therefore, the perfect things have opened to us, together with the hidden things of truth.The holies of

the holies were revealed, and the bridal chamber invited us in.

As long as it is hidden, wickedness is indeed ineffectual, but it has not been removed from the midst of the seed of the Holy

�Spirit. They are slaves of evil.But when it is revealed, then the perfect light will flow out on everyone.And all those who are in it

will receive the chrism. Then the slaves will be free and the captives ransomed.Every plant which my father in heaven has

not planted will be plucked out[Matt15:13]. Those who are seperated will be united and will be filled.Every one who will

enter the bridal chamber will kindle the light, for it burns just as in the marriages which are observed, though they happen at

�night.That fire burns only at night and is put out.But the mysteries of this marriage are perfected rather in the day and the light.

Neither that day nor its light ever sets.If anyone becomes a son of the bridal chamber, he will receive the light.If anyone does

�not receive it while he is in these places, he will not be able to receive it in the other place.He who will receive the light will not

be seen, nor can he be detained. And none shall be able to torment a person like this even while he dwells in the world.And

�again, when he leaves the world he has allready received the truth in the images.The world has become the Aeon, for the Aeon

if fullness for him.This is the way it is: it is revealed to him alone, not hidden in the darkness and the night, but hidden in a perfect

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