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[...] of the [...] the words [...] live forever, these I [...] Zstrianos [...] and [...] and Iolaos, when I was in the world for these like me and [those] after me, [the] livin ele!t. As "od lives, [...] the tr#th with tr#th and knowled e and eternal li ht. After I $arted from the somati! darkness in me and the $s%!hi! !haos in mind and the feminine desire [...] in the darkness, I did not #se it a ain. After I fo#nd the infinite $art of m% matter, then I re$roved the dead !reation within me and the divine &osmo!rater of the $er!e$ti'le (world) '% $rea!hin $owerf#ll% a'o#t the All to those with alien $arts. Altho# h I tried their wa%s for a little while after the ne!essit% of 'e ettin 'ro# ht me to the revealed, I was never $leased with them, '#t I alwa%s se$arated m%self from them 'e!a#se I !ame into 'ein thro# h a hol% [...], %et mi*ed. +hen I had set strai ht m% sinless so#l, then I stren thened 2 the intelle!t#al [...] and I [...] in the [...] of m% "od [...] [...] I havin done [...] row stron in a hol% s$irit hi her than od. It [!ame] #$on me alone as I was settin m%self strai ht, [and] I saw the $erfe!t !hild [...] [...]. +ith him who [...] man% times and man% wa%s [he] a$$eared to me as a lovin father, when I was seekin the male father of all (who are) in tho# ht, $er!e$tion, (in) form, ra!e, [re ion ...], (in) an All whi!h restrains and is restrained, (in) a 'od% %et witho#t a 'od%, (in) essen!e, matter and [those that] 'elon to all these. It is with them and the od of the #n'orn KALYPTOS and the $ower [in] them all that e*isten!e is mi*ed. (A'o#t) e*isten!e, how do those who e*ist, 'ein from the aeon of those who e*ist, (!ome) from an invisi'le, #ndivided and self-'e otten s$irit. Are the% three #n'orn ima es havin an ori in 'etter than e*isten!e, e*istin $rior [to] all [these], %et havin 'e!ome the [world ...]. /ow are those o$$osite it and all these 3 [...] ood, he and an e*!#se. +hat is that one0s $la!e. +hat is his ori in. /ow does the one from him e*ist for him and all these. /ow [does he !ome into e*isten!e] as a sim$le one, differin [from] himself. 1oes he e*ist as e*isten!e, form, and 'lessedness. 2% ivin stren th is he alive with life. /ow has the e*isten!e whi!h does not e*ist a$$eared from an e*istin $ower. I $ondered these thin s to #nderstand them3 a!!ordin to the !#stom of m% ra!e I ke$t 'rin in them #$ to the od of m% fathers. I ke$t $raisin them all, for m% forefathers and fathers who so# ht fo#nd. As for me, I did not !ease seekin a restin $la!e worth% of m% s$irit, sin!e I was not %et 'o#nd in the $er!e$ti'le world. Then, as I was dee$l% tro#'led and loom% 'e!a#se of the dis!o#ra ement whi!h en!om$assed me, I dared to a!t and to deliver m%self to the wild 'easts of the desert for a violent death.

There stood 'efore me the an el of the knowled e of eternal li ht. /e said to me, 0Zstrianos, wh% have %o# one mad as if %o# were i norant of the reat eternals 4 who are a'ove. [...] %o# [...] [...] sa% also [...] that %o# are now saved, [...] [...] in eternal death, nor [...] [...] those whom %o# know in order to [...] save others, [namel%] m% father4s !hosen ele!t. [1o %o#] [s#$$ose] that %o# are the father of [%o#r ra!e ...] or that Iolaos is %o#r father, a [...] an el of od [...] %o# thro# h hol% men. &ome and $ass thro# h ea!h of these. 5o# will ret#rn to them another [time] to $rea!h to a livin [ra!e ...] and to save those who are worth%, and to stren then the ele!t, 'e!a#se the str# le of the aeon is reat '#t one0s time in this world is short.0 +hen he had said this [to me], I ver% 6#i!kl% and ver% ladl% went #$ with him to a reat li ht-!lo#d. I !ast m% 'od% #$on the earth to 'e #arded '% lories. I was res!#ed from the whole world and the thirteen aeons in it and their an eli! 'ein s. The% did not see #s, '#t their ar!hon was dist#r'ed at [o#r] $assa e, for the li ht-!lo#d 5 [...] it is 'etter than ever% [worldl% ...] one. Its 'ea#t% is ineffa'le. +ith stren th it $rovides li ht [ #idin ] $#re s$irits as a s$irit-savior and an intelle!t#al word, [not] like those in the world [...] with !han ea'le matter and an #$settin word. Then I knew that the $ower in me was set over the darkness 'e!a#se it !ontained the whole li ht. I was 'a$ti7ed there, and I re!eived the ima e of the lories there. I 'e!ame like one of them. I left the air%-[earth] and $assed '% the !o$ies of the aeons, after washin there seven times [in] livin [water], on!e for ea!h [of the] aeons. I did not !ease #ntil [I saw] all the waters. I as!ended to the 8*ile whi!h reall% e*ists. I was 'a$ti7ed and [...] world. I as!ended to the Re$entan!e whi!h reall% e*ists [and was] 'a$ti7ed there fo#r times. I $assed '% the 6 si*th aeon. I as!ended to the [...] I stood there after havin seen li ht from the tr#th whi!h reall% e*ists, from its self'e otten root, and reat an els and lories, [...] n#m'er. I was 'a$ti7ed in the name of the divine AUTOGENES '% those $owers whi!h are [#$on] livin waters, MIKHAR and MIKHEUS. I was $#rified '% [the] reat BARPHARANGS. Then the% [revealed] themselves to me and wrote me in lor%. I was sealed '% those who are on these $owers, MIKHAR MIKHEUS, SELDA, ELENOS and ZGENETHLOS. I 'e!ame a root-seein an el and stood #$on the first aeon whi!h is the fo#rth. +ith the so#ls I 'lessed the divine AUTOGENES and the forefather GERADAMAS, [an e%e of] the AUTOGENES, the first $erfe!t [man], and STH EMMAKHA STH, the son of ADAMAS, the [father of] the [immova'le ra!e ...] and the [fo#r] [li hts ... ] (9 line unrecoverable) MIROTHEA, the mother [...] [...] and PROPHANIA [...] of the li hts and 1e-[...] 7 [...]

I was ['a$ti7ed] for the se!ond time in the name of the divine AUTOGENES '% these same $owers. I 'e!ame an an el of the male ra!e. I stood #$on the se!ond aeon whi!h is the third, with the sons of STH I 'lessed ea!h of them. I was 'a$ti7ed for the third time in the name of the divine AUTOGENES '% ea!h of these $owers. I 'e!ame a hol% an el. I stood #$on the third aeon whi!h is the se!ond. I 'lessed ea!h of them. I was 'a$ti7ed for the fo#rth time '% [ea!h of] these $owers. I 'e!ame [a] $erfe!t [an el] [I stood #$on] the fo#rth aeon [whi!h is the first], and [I 'lessed ea!h of them.] Then I so# ht [...] I said [...] I [...] of [...] I (9 line unrecoverable) [...] wh% [...] [...] with $ower [...] a'o#t them in another wa% in the re$orts 8 of men. Are these their $owers. Or, are these the ones, '#t their names differ from one another. Are there so#ls different from so#ls. +h% are $eo$le different from one another. +hat and in what wa% are the% h#man.0 The reat r#ler on hi h, AUTHROUNIOS, said to me, 0Are %o# askin a'o#t those whom %o# have $assed '%. And a'o#t this air%-earth, wh% it has a !osmi! model. And a'o#t the aeon !o$ies, how man% there are, and, wh% the% are [not] in $ain. And, a'o#t 8*ile and Re$entan!e and the !reation of the [aeons] and the world whi!h [...] reall% [...] %o#, a'o#t [...] me, them [...] nor [...] %o# [...] invisi'le [s$irit ...] and the [...] of [...] (: lines unrecoverable) and [...] [...] when I [...] The reat r#ler on hi h, AUTHROUNIOS, said to me, 0The air%-earth !ame into 'ein '% a word, %et it is the 'e otten and $erisha'le ones whom it reveals '% its indestr#!ti'ilit%. In re ard to the !omin of the reat ;#d es, (the% !ame) so as not to taste $er!e$tion and to 'e en!losed in !reation, and when the% !ame #$on it and saw thro# h it the works of the world, the% !ondemned its r#ler to death 'e!a#se he was a model of the world, a [...] and an ori in of matter 'e otten of lost darkness.
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+hen So$hia looked at [...] them she $rod#!ed the darkness, as she [... she] is 'eside the [... he is a] model [...] of essen!e [...] form [...] to an ima e [...] I [...] the All (< lines unrecoverable)

[...] darkness [...] [...] sa% [...] $owers [... aeons] of [!reation ...] to see an% of the eternal ones. 1 he saw a refle!tion. In relation to the refle!tion whi!h he saw in it, he !reated the world. +ith a refle!tion of a refle!tion he worked at $rod#!in the world, and then even the refle!tion 'elon in to visi'le realit% was taken from him. 2#t to So$hia a $la!e of rest was iven in e*!han e for her re$entan!e. Th#s, there was in her no $rior refle!tion, $#re in itself 'eforehand. After the% had alread% !ome into 'ein thro# h it, he #sed his ima ination (and) $rod#!ed the remainder, for the ima e of So$hia was alwa%s 'ein lost 'e!a#se her !o#ntenan!e was de!eivin . 2#t the Ar!hon [...] and made a 'od% whi!h [...] !on!ernin the reater [...] down [...] when I saw [...] to the heart [...] (9 line unrecoverable) he havin [...] (= lines unrecoverable) $erfe!t thro# h [...] (9 line unrecoverable) [...] thro# h him, as he 11 [revealed] the destr#!tion of the world '% his [imm#ta'ilit%]. It is in the followin wa% that the !o$ies of the aeons e*ist. The% have not o'tained a sin le $ower0s sha$e. It is eternal lories that the% $ossess, and the% dwell in the ;#d ment seats of ea!h of the $owers. 2#t when so#ls are ill#minated '% the li ht in them and ('%) the model whi!h often !omes into 'ein in them witho#t s#fferin , she did not think that she saw [...] and the eternal [...] in the 'lessed [...] ea!h sin le one [...] ea!h of [...] li ht [... all], and she [...] whole, and she [...] and a [...] and she [...] she who (= lines unrecoverable) of re$entan!e. [So#ls] 12 are lo!ated a!!ordin to the $ower the% have in themselves, [...] lower are $rod#!ed '% the !o$ies. Those who re!eive a model of their so#ls are still in the world. The% !ame into 'ein after the de$art#re of the aeons, one '% one, and the% are removed one '% one from the !o$% of 8*ile to the 8*ile that reall% e*ists, from the !o$% of Re$entan!e to the Re$entan!e that reall% e*ists, [and from the] !o$% of AUTOGENES to [the AUTOGENES] that reall% e*ists. The remainder [...] the so#ls [...] e*ist in a [...] all [...] of aeons [...] (9 line unrecoverable) and [...] [thro# h ... ] the [...] (: lines unrecoverable)

of [...] these [...] 13 ['lessed the] od a'ove, the reat aeons, the #n'orn KALYPTOS, the reat male PRTOPHANS, the $erfe!t !hild who is hi her than od, and his e%e, >i eradamas. I !alled #$on the &hild of the &hild, PHSKH. /e stood 'efore me and said, 0O an el of od, O son of the father, [...] the $erfe!t man. +h% are %o# !allin on me and askin a'o#t those thin s whi!h %o# know, as tho# h %o# were [i norant] of them.0 And I said, 0I have asked a'o#t the mi*t#re [...] it is $erfe!t and ives [...] there is $ower whi!h [has ... those] in whi!h we re!eive 'a$tism [...] these names are [different ...] and wh% [...] from one [...] in the [... from] others [...] men [... different] (: lines unrecoverable) /e said, 0[Zost]rianos, listen a'o#t these [...] for the first [...] ori ins are three 'e!a#se the% have a$$eared in a sin le ori in [of] the BARBEL aeon, not like some ori ins and $owers, nor like (one) from an ori in and $ower. It is to ever% ori in that the% have a$$eared3 the% have stren thened ever% $ower3 and the% a$$eared from that whi!h is far 'etter than themselves. These (three) are 8*isten!e, 2lessedness and ?ife. [...] [...] their !om$anions [...] in a [...] and !on!ernin the [...] havin named [...] more than [...] and [...] a $erfe!t [...] from a
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(@ lines unrecoverable) And a water of ea!h one of them [...] 3 therefore [...] waters are the $erfe!t ones. It is the water of life that 'elon s to Aitalit% in whi!h %o# now have 'een 'a$ti7ed in the AUTOGENES. It is in the [water] of 2lessedness whi!h 'elon s to Bnowled e that %o# will 'e 'a$ti7ed in the PRTOPHANS. It is the water of 8*isten!e [whi!h] 'elon s to 1ivinit%, the KALYPTOS. Now the water of ?ife [e*ists in relation to ...] $ower3 that 'elon in to 2lessedness in relation to essen!e3 that 'elon in to [1ivinit%] in relation to [8*isten!e ...]. 2#t all these [...] a#thorit% and [...] those who [...] water whi!h ['e!omes $#re ...] [...] a!!ordin to [... when the%] de$art (= lines unrecoverable)
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[...] 16 8*isten!e as [he] is in it. [/e] not onl% [was dwellin ] in Tho# ht, '#t he also [...] them that it is he who is [2ein ] in the followin wa%. In order that this world mi ht not 'e endless and formless, he $la!ed a [...] over it3 '#t in order that [he] mi ht 'e!ome somethin , the tr#l% %o#n !rossed it with what is his, [th#s] 8*isten!e. It is with the [son] that he is lo!ated, with him that he seeks, him that he s#rro#nds [...] ever%where [...] from the tr#th [...] takes him who [...] e*ists [...] a!tivit% [...] life [...] his word also [...] are these after [...] the% 'e!ame [...] (C lines unrecoverable)

[...] 17 and the $ower is with the 8ssen!e and 8*isten!e of 2ein , when the water e*ists. 2#t the name in whi!h the% wash is a word of the water. Then the first $erfe!t water of the tri$le-$ower of the AUTOGENES [is] the $erfe!t so#l0s life, for it is a word of the $erfe!t od while !omin into 'ein [...] for the Invisi'le S$irit is a fo#ntain of them all. Th#s, the rest are from [knowled e ...] as his likeness. [2#t] he who knows himself [...] what kind and what [...] alive at one time [...] live with a [...] he is the [...] life, in the [...] 'e!ome [limitless ... ] his [... his] [own ... ] the name (= lines unrecoverable) he reall% e*ists. It is he 'e!a#se he limits himself. The% a$$roa!h the water a!!ordin to this sin le $ower and the likeness of order.
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The reat male invisi'le Dind, the $erfe!t PRTOPHANS has his own water as %o# [will see] when %o# arrive at his $la!e. This is also the !ase with the #n'orn KALYPTOS. In a!!ordan!e with ea!h one e*ists a $artial entit% with a first form, so that the% mi ht 'e!ome $erfe!t in this wa%3 for the self'e otten aeons are fo#r $erfe!t entities. [The] individ#als of the all-$erfe!t ones [...] them as $erfe!t individ#als. And the [...] aeon [...] of the AUTOGENES [...] for all [...] [$erfe!t] male [...] for the alls [...] [$erfe!t od ... the tri$le-] male [...] [$erfe!t] individ#al [...] in the [...] (C lines unrecoverable) 19 $erfe!t, those who e*ist a!!ordin to a form, a ra!e, an All and a $artial differen!e. This is also the !ase with the hi hwa% of as!ent whi!h is hi her than $erfe!t and KALYPTOS. The AUTOGENES is the !hief ar!hon of his own aeons and an els as his $arts, for those who are the fo#r individ#als 'elon to him3 the% 'elon to the fifth aeon to ether. The fifth e*ists in one3 the fo#r [are] the fifth, $art '% $art. 2#t these [fo#r] are !om$lete individ#all% ['e!a#se the%] have a [...] it is also [...] with [the tri$le male] individ#al [...] for he is a [...] of [...] od, the invisi'le [PRTOPHANS] [... male] mind [...] whi!h e*ists (@ lines unrecoverable) 2 livin and $erfe!t $arts. (A'o#t) the All and the all-$erfe!t ra!e and the one who is hi her than $erfe!t and 'lessed. The self-'e otten KALYPTOS $re-e*ists 'e!a#se he is an ori in of the AUTOGENES, a od and a forefather, a !a#se of the PRTOPHANS, a father of the $arts that are his. As a divine father he is foreknown, '#t he is #nknown, for he is a $ower and a father from himself. Therefore, he is [fatherless]. The Invisi'le Tri$le >owerf#l, Eirst Tho# ht [of] all [these], the Invisi'le S$irit [...] is a [...] and 8ssen!e whi!h [...] and 8*isten!e [...] there are [e*isten!es] the [...] 'lessed [...] the [...] all these [...] the [...] (: lines unrecoverable) 21 e*ist in them, [and] the% [...] in others [...] '% them all in man% $la!es.

The% are in ever% $la!e that he loves and desires, %et the% are not in an% $la!e. The% have !a$a!it% for s$irit, for the% are in!or$oreal %et are 'etter than in!or$oreal. The% are #ndivided with livin tho# hts and a $ower of tr#th with those $#rer than these sin!e with res$e!t to him the% are $#rer and are not like the 'odies whi!h are in one $la!e. A'ove all, the% have ne!essit% either in relation to the All or to a $art. Therefore, the wa% of as!ent [...] it is $#re [...] ea!h [...] herself and (9 line unrecoverable) [...] them (: lines unrecoverable) [... a'ove all] (9 line unrecoverable) 22 $arti!#lar aeons. Then [he said], 0/ow then !an he !ontain an eternal model. The eneral intelle!t shares when the self-'e otten water 'e!omes $erfe!t. It one knows him and all these, one is the $roto$hani! water. If one ;oins oneself with all these, one is that water whi!h 'elon s to KALYPTOS, whose ima e is still in the aeons. To #nderstand individ#all% all their $arts, the% are [...] , those of the All where knowled e is. The% have [se$arated] from the one whom the% knew and (from) fellowshi$ with one another. The All and all these, when the% [...] wash in the [washin of] [AUTOGENES] he [...] of [...] (C lines unrecoverable) he a$$ears to [him], that is, when one knows how he e*ists for him and (how) he has fellowshi$ with their !om$anions, one has washed in the washin of PRTOPHANS. And if in #nderstandin the ori in of these, how the% all a$$ear from a sin le ori in, how all who are ;oined !ome to 'e divided, how those who are divided ;oin a ain, and how the $arts [;oin with] the alls and the s$e!ies and [kinds - if] one #nderstands these thin s, one has washed in the washin of KALYPTOS.
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A!!ordin to ea!h of [the] $la!es one has a $ortion of the eternal ones [and] as!ends [...] as he [...] $#re and sim$le, he is alwa%s [...] one of the [...] [alwa%s] he is $#re for sim$leness. /e is filled [...] [in ...] 8*isten!e and a hol% s$irit. There is 24 nothin of his o#tside of him. /e !an [see] with his $erfe!t so#l those who 'elon to AUTOGENES3 with his mind , those who 'elon to the Tri$le Dale, and with his hol% s$irit, those who 'elon to PRTOPHANS. /e !an learn of KALYPTOS thro# h the $owers of the s$irit from whom the% have !ome forth in a far 'etter revelation of the Invisi'le S$irit. And '% means of tho# ht whi!h now is in silen!e and '% Eirst Tho# ht (he learns) of the Tri$le >owerf#l Invisi'le S$irit, sin!e there is then a re$ort and $ower of silen!e whi!h is $#rified in a life- ivin s$irit. (It is) $erfe!t and [...] $erfe!t and all-$erfe!t.

"lories, therefore, whi!h are set over these, are [life- ivers] who have 'een 'a$ti7ed in tr#th and knowled e. Those who are worth% are #arded, '#t those who [are] not from this ra!e [...] and o [...] these who [...] [...] in the fifth, he 'ein [...] [...] !o$% [...] of the aeons [...] namel% a washin '#t if [he] stri$s off the world 25 and la%s aside [knowled e], and (if) he is he who has no dwellin $la!e and $ower, then 'e!a#se he follows the wa%s of the others, he is also a so;o#rner, '#t (if) he is one who has !ommitted no sin 'e!a#se knowled e was s#ffi!ient for him, he is not an*io#s when he re$ents, and then washin s are a$$ointed0 in these in addition. (&on!ernin ) (the $ath ...) to the self-'e otten ones, those in whi!h %o# have now 'een 'a$tised ea!h time, (a $ath) worth% of seein the [$erfe!t ...] individ#als, it serves as knowled e of the All sin!e it !ame into 'ein from the $owers of the self-'e otten ones, the one %o# a!6#ire when %o# $ass thro# h the all-$erfe!t aeons. +hen %o# re!eive the third washin [...], %o# will learn a'o#t the [...] reall% [...] in [that] $la!e. A'o#t these names, the% are as follows, 'e!a#se he is one, the% [...] is like [...] while he [!ame into 'ein ...] e*ists and [...] a word the% [said ...] 26 This is a name whi!h reall% e*ists to ether with [these] within her. These who e*ist do so in [...] ... resem'les. /is resem'lan!e in kind (is) within what is his own. /e !an see it, #nderstand it enter it, (and) take a resem'lan!e from it. Now (the% !an) s$eak alo#d and hear so#nds, '#t the% are #na'le to o'e% 'e!a#se the% are $er!e$ti'le and somati!. Therefore, ;#st as the% are a'le to !ontain them '% !ontainin them th#s, so is he an ima e whi!h is [...] in this wa%, havin !ome into e*isten!e in $er!e$tion ['%] a word whi!h is 'etter than material nat#re '#t lower than intelle!t#al essen!e. 1o not 'e ama7ed a'o#t the differen!es amon so#ls. +hen the% think the% are different and do [not resem'le] [...] of those who [...] and that [...] alo#d [...] he 'ein lost [...] their [so#ls] [...] 'od%, and that [... his] time, he [...] a desire, 27 their so#ls e*ist as [...] their 'od%. As for those who are totall% $#re, there are fo#r [...] that the% $ossess3 '#t those [in] time are nine. 8a!h one of them has its s$e!ies and its !#stom. Their likenesses differ in 'ein se$arated, and the% stand. Other immortal so#ls asso!iate with all these so#ls 'e!a#se of the So$hia who looked down3 for there are three s$e!ies of immortal so#l, first, those who have taken root #$on the 8*ile 'e!a#se the% have no a'ilit% to 'e et, (somethin ) that onl% those who follow the wa%s of the others have, the one 'ein a sin le s$e!ies whi!h [...]3 'ein se!ond, those who stand [#$on the] Re$entan!e whi!h [...] sin, (it) 'ein s#ffi!ient [... knowled e ...] 'ein new [...] and he has [...] differen!e [...] the% have sinned with the others [and] 28 the% have re$ented with the others [...] from them alone, for [...] are s$e!ies whi!h e*ist in [...] with those who !ommitted all sins and re$ented. 8ither the% are $arts, or the% desired of their own a!!ord. Therefore, their other

aeons are si* a!!ordin to the $la!e whi!h has !ome to ea!h (fem.) of them. The third (s$e!ies) is that of the so#ls of the self-'e otten ones 'e!a#se the% have a word of the ineffa'le tr#th, one whi!h e*ists in knowled e and [$ower] from themselves alone and eternal [life]. The% have fo#r differen!es like the s$e!ies of an els who e*ist, those who love the tr#th3 those who ho$e3 those who 'elieve havin [...]3 those who are [...] The% e*ist, he 'ein [...] the self-'e otten ones [...] he is the one 'elon in to [$erfe!t ... life]3 the se!ond is [...] the [...] knowled e [...] the fo#rth is that one ['elon in to the] immortal [so#ls ...] The fo#r ?i hts dwell [there] in the followin wa%. ARMOZL is $la!ed #$on the first aeon. (/e is) a $romise of od, [...] of tr#th and a ;oinin of so#l. OROIAL, a $ower (and) seer of tr#th, is set over the se!ond. DAUEITHE, a vision of knowled e, is set over the third. LLTH, an ea er desire and $re$aration for tr#th, is set over the fo#rth. The fo#r e*ist 'e!a#se the% are e*$ressions of tr#th and knowled e. The% e*ist, altho# h the% do not 'elon to PRTOPHANS '#t to the mother, for she is a tho# ht of the $erfe!t mind of the li ht, so that immortal so#ls mi ht re!eive knowled e for themselves. [...] at these, the AUTOGENES [...]RSE[...]OAS, a life [...] all he is a word [...] ineffa'le [...] tr#th he who sa%s [... revelation] !on!ernin the [...] that it e*ists as [...] e*ists a'ove in [...] 3 [... ;oined] in a %okin of it in li ht and tho# ht within his [...].
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Sin!e Adamas, the $erfe!t man, is an e%e of AUTOGENES, it is his knowled e whi!h !om$rehends that the divine AUTOGENES is a word of the $erfe!t mind of tr#th. The son of Adam, STH, !omes to ea!h of the so#ls. As knowled e he is s#ffi!ient for them. Therefore, [the] livin [seed] !ame into e*isten!e from him. MIROTHEA is [...] the divine AUTOGENES, a [...] from her and [...], she 'ein a tho# ht of the $erfe!t mind 'e!a#se of that e*isten!e of hers. +hat is it. Or did she e*ist. [...] does she e*ist. Therefore, the divine AUTOGENES is word and knowled e, and the knowled e [... word.] Therefore [...] Adama[s ...] of the [sim$le ones] when she a$$eared [...] a !han e of [the] so#ls [...] she herself is [...] [...] $erfe!t. &on!ernin the [$erfe!t one ...] an eli! 'ein s 31 [...] ['e!omes then] [so#ls] [die ...] [... the world ...] [...] the !o$ies [...] reall% [...] whi!h [e*ists] [...] re$entan!e [...] to this $la!e [...] whi!h e*ists [...] aeons, if [...] and she loves [...] she stands #$on [...] aeon havin the ?i ht LLTH [...] 'e!ome a [...] od-seer [2#t] if she ho$es, then she $er!eives. And a [...] ra!e [...] she stands #$on (F lines unrecoverable) 32 [...] she is !hosen (< lines unrecoverable) [...] li ht ARMOZL

[...] one [...] ['less] #$on the [$ower ...] %o# stand #$on [...] the li ht whi!h [...] and witho#t meas#re [...] the aeon is reat [...] [...] those alone [...] from the $erfe!t [...] that $ower [...] 'e a'le, and [...] 'e a'le [...] of his so#l [...] $er!e$ti'le [...] not with [...] [... '#t] %o# are [...] individ#all% [...] there 'ein nothin [...] him [...] whi!h he [...] (: lines unrecoverable) [in ...] 33 and [...] #$on ever% one [...] ever% [...] [...] formless [...] [...] and this one [...] and this [model ...] [...] and some [...] eternal, nor [...] an all [...] in!reasin from this [...] he is li ht [...] 'e!a#se he la!ked [...] the $erfe!t mind [...] #ndivided [...] $erfe!t li ht [...] and he is in [...] Adamas [... the] AUTOGENES [...] and he oes [...] mind [...] the divine KALYPTOS [...] knowled e [...] '#t [...] so#l (C lines unrecoverable) 34 [...] e*isten!e [...] she havin (9 line unrecoverable) [...] some se!ond $owers and [...] and some third [...] a$$ear [...] whi!h [...] (9 line unrecoverable) so#l [...] And the aeons [...] dwellin $la!e [...] so#ls and [...] ods [...] hi her than od [...] of the self-'e otten ones [...] AUTOGENES [...] first [...] an el [...] invisi'le [...] some [...] so#l and [...] aeons [...] and to the so#ls [...] an el [...] (= lines unrecoverable) 35 she [...] eternal [...] times. And [...] (9 line unrecoverable) and if [...] namel% a so#l [...] 'e!omes an [an el ...], and [...] world [...] an els and [...] that hol% one [...] and aeon whi!h [... A#to ]enes has [...] them, the [...] [...] ar!hon [...] the% have [...] differen!e whi!h [...] she is not, to s$eak (9 line unrecoverable) [...] and [...] divine AUTOGENES [...] whi!h e*ists [...] hear [...] AUTOGENES [...] of (C lines unrecoverable) 36 [...] has [...] e*isten!e [...] life [...] e*ist, !on!ernin [the] [...] word [...] the !hild [...] male for a eneration [...] (9 line unrecoverable) invisi'le s$irit [...] in the $erfe!t [...] (9 line unrecoverable) and an ori in [...] love and [...] of BARBEL [...] and a [...] the [...] mind [...] These are two [...] tho# ht [...] from the [...] in BARBEL [...] and the KALYPTOS [...] all these [...] the vir in [...] she [a$$ears] in a [...] and [...] (: lines unrecoverable) 37 in that one [...] $ower (9 line unrecoverable) [he is not] from [him, '#t ...] (is) from the $ower of that one [... reall% ... e*ists], she [...] is his [...] the% 'ein first [...] of that one [...] and he is the

[...] he alone [...] ive him eno# h [...] to him [...] all, he ives [...] thro# h the [...] for ['e!a#se of] him some [...] in order that he mi ht [...] and that one whi!h [...] him [...] #ndivided [...] BARBEL [...] in order that he mi ht [...] 'lessedness (9 line unrecoverable) [...] all [...] he !omes (= lines unrecoverable) 38 a [...] of the $erfe!t [mind ...] and he [...] $erfe!t s$irit [...] $erfe!t, he lives forever [...] him, and [...] he e*ists [...] of the [...] he is [a word] from [...] whi!h is in [...] of them all [...] eternal [...] [...] in the tri$le-[$owerf#l is in the [...] [...] those whi!h [are $erfe!t [...] the PRTOPHANS [...] mind, '#t [...] $#re[...] and he [...] of an ima e [...] a$$ear [...] and the [...] (9 line unrecoverable) him [...] (C lines unrecoverable) 39 [...] [...] namel% (< lines unrecoverable) [...] 'e!a#se of him the% [...] I mark it [...] he is sim$le [...] for he is [...] as he e*ists [...] as to another [...] that is, [...] need. &on!ernin [...] tri$le-male [...] reall% e*ists of [...] mind knowled e [...] those who e*ist [...] whi!h he has [...] reall% e*ist [...] and a [...] [...] and she [...] se!ond [...] $erfe!t whi!h [...] a$$ear [...] in him the% [...] KALYPTOS (: lines unrecoverable) [... s$e!ies ...] (< lines unrecoverable) 4 (= lines unrecoverable) se!ond s$e!ies [...] a knowled e [...] [PRTOPHANS ...] [male ...] he has [...] e*isten!e [...] #n'orn, the% [...] third [...] [... he] has [...] knowled e and [...] e*ist to ether [...] all-$erfe!t [...] 'lessed sin!e there is not [...] (< lines unrecoverable) od [...] with him [...] (9 line unrecoverable) $erfe!t [...] of the [...] KALYPTOS [...] (= lines unrecoverable) 41 [...] know [...] of [... PRTOPHANS ...] [...] the mind [...] the $owers [...] the all [...] and he [e*ists] [...] this knowled e. [...] divine, the AUTOGENES. [The] divine [AUTOGENES] [...] the !hild [...] tri$lemale, this male [...] is [...] and a s$e!ies [...] $erfe!t 'e!a#se it does not have [...] in a [...] knowled e like that one [...] a 'ein of the individ#als [and] a sin le knowled e of the individ#als [...] a!!ordin to the all [...] $erfe!t. 2#t the male [...] mind the KALYPTOS, ['#t] the [...] divine KALYPTOS [...] and a $ower [...] of all these [... reall% ...] (: lines unrecoverable)

[PRTOPHANS ...] (9 line unrecoverable) 42 [PRTOPHANS ...] [...] mind (< lines unrecoverable) she who 'elon s to the all [...] #n'orn [...] man [...] the% [...] with that one who [...] and he who [...] he who dwells [...] [...] in the $er!e$ti'le [world ...] he is alive with that dead one [...] [...] all [...] o'tain salvation [...] that dead one. And all of them did not need salvation [...] first, '#t the% are safe and e*ist ver% h#m'l%. Now (a'o#t) the man [of] those who are dead, his so#l, [his mind and his 'od% all [are dead]. S#fferin s [...] fathers of [...] material [...] the fire [...] (= lines unrecoverable) it !rosses over. And the se!ond man is the immortal so#l in those who are dead. If it is an*io#s over itself, then [when it seeks] those thin s whi!h are $rofita'le [a!!ordin to ...] ea!h one of them, [then it] e*$erien!es 'odil% s#fferin . The% [...] and it [... 'e!a#se] it has an eternal od, it asso!iates with daimons.
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Now !on!ernin the man in the 8*ile3 when he dis!overs the tr#th in himself, he is far from the deeds of the others who e*ist [wron l%] (and) st#m'le. (&on!ernin ) the man who re$ents, when he reno#n!es the dead and desires those thin s whi!h are 'e!a#se of immortal mind and his immortal so#l, first he [...] makes an in6#ir% a'o#t it, not a'o#t !ond#!t '#t a'o#t their deeds, for from him he [...] [...] and [...] o'tain [...] 44 and the man who !an 'e saved is the one who seeks him and his mind and who finds ea!h one of them. Oh how m#!h $ower he hasG And the man who is saved is the one who has not known how these [...] e*ist, '#t he himself '% means of [the] word as it e*ists [...] re!eived ea!h one [...] in ever% $la!e, havin 'e!ome sim$le and one, for then he is saved 'e!a#se he !an $ass thro# h all [these]. /e 'e!omes the [...] all these. If he [desires] a ain, then he $arts from them all, and he withdraws to himself [alone]3 for he !an 'e!ome divine '% havin taken ref# e in od.0 +hen I heard this, I 'ro# ht a 'lessin to the livin and #n'orn "od in tr#th and (to) the #n'orn KALYPTOS and the PRTOPHANS, the invisi'le, male, $erfe!t Dind, and the invisi'le tri$le-male &hild [and to the] divine AUTOGENES. 45 I said to the !hild of the !hild 8$hesek who was with me, 0&an %o#r wisdom instr#!t me a'o#t the s!atterin of the man who is saved, and (a'o#t) those who are mi*ed with him, and who those are who share with him, in order that the livin ele!t mi ht know.0

Then the !hild of the !hild EPHSKH told [me ...] o$enl%, 0If he withdraws to himself alone man% times, and if he !omes into 'ein with referen!e to the knowled e of the others, Dind and the immortal [Ori in] will not #nderstand. Then it has a shorta e, [...] for he t#rns, has nothin and se$arates from it and stands [...] and !omes into 'ein '% an alien [im$#lse ...I, instead of 'e!omin one. Therefore, he 'ears man% forms. +hen he t#rns aside, he !omes into 'ein seekin those thin s that do not e*ist. +hen he falls down to them in tho# ht and knows them in another wa% 'e!a#se he is $owerless, #nless $erha$s 46 he is enli htened, he 'e!omes a $rod#!t of nat#re. Th#s he !omes down to 'irth 'e!a#se of it and is s$ee!hless 'e!a#se of the $ains and infiniteness of matter. Altho# h he $ossesses an eternal and immortal $ower, he is 'o#nd within the [movement] of the 'od%. /e is [made] alive and is 'o#nd [alwa%s] within !r#el, !#ttin 'onds '% ever% evil 'reath, #ntil he [a!ts] a ain and 'e ins a ain to !ome to his senses. Therefore, $owers are a$$ointed for their salvation, and ea!h one of them is in the world. +ithin the self-'e otten ones !orres$ondin to ea!h of the [aeons] stand lories so that one who is in the [world] mi ht 'e safe 'eside them. The lories are $erfe!t tho# hts a$$earin in $owers. The% do not $erish 'e!a#se the% [are] models for salvation ['%] whi!h ea!h one is saved. /e re!eives a model (and) stren th from ea!h of them, and with the lor% as a hel$er he will th#s $ass o#t from the world [and the aeons ...]. These are the #ardians of the immortal so#l, GAMALIL and STREMPSOUKHOS, AKRAMAS and LL, and MNSINOUS. This is the immortal s$irit, IESSEUS- MAZAREUS-IESSEDEKEUS. /e is [...] of the !hild [...] or, the !hild of the !hild, and [...] 2#t ORMOS is [the delimiter] on the livin seed and KAMALIL is the s$irit- ivin . There stand 'efore [them] ISAUL and AUDAL and ABRASA!, the m%riads PHALERIS, PHALSS, and EURIOS, the #ardians of the lor% STTHEUS, THEOPEMPTOS, EURUMENEUS and OLSN. Their assistants in ever%thin are BATHORMOS, EISN, EIRN, LALAMEUS, EIDOMENEUS and AUTHROUNIOS. The ;#d es are SUMPHTHAR, EUKREBS and KEILAR. The inheritor is SAMBL. The an els who #ide the !lo#ds are the !lo#ds SAPHPH and THOUR.0 +hen he had said these thin s, he told me a'o#t all of those in the self'e otten aeons. The% were all 48 eternal ?i hts, $erfe!t 'e!a#se the% were $erfe!ted individ#all%. I saw !orres$ondin to ea!h one of the aeons a livin earth, a livin water, [air made] of li ht and a fire [that] !annot '#rn, 'e!a#se all of [them ...] are sim$le and imm#ta'le, sim$le and eternal [livin 'ein s], havin [...] of man% kinds, trees of man% kinds that do not $erish, [also] tares of this sort and all of these, im$erisha'le fr#it, livin men and ever% s$e!ies, immortal so#ls, ever% form and s$e!ies of mind, tr#e ods, an els e*istin in reat lor%, an indissol#'le 'od%, an #n'orn 'irth and an immova'le $er!e$tion. Also there was the one who s#ffers, altho# h he is #na'le to s#ffer, for he was a $ower of a $ower.

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[...] in [...]THORSO[...]S [...] silen!e [...] he is [...] [...] he is od [...] we were 'lessin [...] "eradama[s] [... mother] of [...] [...] she is the lor% [...] o#r [...] mother [...] and >leistha [the mother] of the an els with [the son] of Adam, STH EMMAKHA STH, the father of [the] immova'le [ra!e ...] and [...] [the] fo#r ?i hts, ARMOZL, OROIAL, DAUEITHE, LLTH. [8a!h of these] we 'lessed '% name. [+e] saw the self-!ontrolled [ lor%], the tri$le [...] tri$lemale [...] ma;est%, as we said 05o# are one, %o# are [one], %o# are one, !hild 52 of [the !hild] IATO[MENOS] e*ist [...] (9 line unrecoverable) [... %o# are] one, %o# [...] SEMELEL [...] TELMAKHAL[...] MTHEM[...] male [...] [...] he 'e ets [... the] self-!ontrolled [ lor% ...] !an desire him whom [...] all$erfe!t [...] all. AKRN[...] the tri$le-male, A A [...] BI TREIS EIS [...] %o# are s$irit from s$irit3 %o# are li ht from li ht3 %o# are [silen!e ...] from silen!e3 [%o# are] tho# ht from tho# ht, the son of [ od] the od, seven ... [...] ... let #s s$eak [...] 53 (: lines unrecoverable) [...] word [...] the [...] [...] and the [...] (9 line unrecoverable) [...] not a time [...] invisi'le BARBEL [...] the [...] the tri$le-male >rones, and she who 'elon s to all the lories, IOUL.
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[+hen I was] 'a$ti7ed the fifth [time] in the name of the AUTOGENES '% ea!h of these $owers, I 'e!ame divine. [I] stood #$on the fifth aeon, a $re$aration of all [these], (and) saw all those 'elon in to the AUTOGENES who reall% e*ist. I was 'a$ti7ed five 54 times [...] and [...] of the [...] 7are#[s] from [...] that [...] $erfe!t [...] and the reat [...] lor%, she who 'elon s to [...] (9 line unrecoverable) od, the [...] a$$ear [...] $erfe!t whi!h is do#'led [...] she who 'elon s to all the s$e!ies [...] male, the self-!ontrolled lor%, the mother [...] [the] lories, IOUL, and the [fo#r] ?i hts of [the] [ reat] PRTOPHANS, Dind, SELMEN, [and those] with him, the od-[revealers] ZAKHTHOS and IAKHTHOS, STHEUS and ANTIPHANTS, SELDA and ELENNOS [...] CC [...] [...] o [...] the [...] their [...] likeness [... e*ist] as [...] of the [...], for [...] see [...] [...] aeon [...] more [...] ?i ht [...] more lories [...] the followin are in a!!ordan!e with [ea!h one] of the aeons, a livin [earth] and a [livin ] water, and air made of li ht and a 'la7in fire whi!h !annot ['#rn], and livin 'ein s and trees and so#ls [and] minds and men [and] all those who are [with them], '#t (there are) no ods [or] $owers or an els, for all these 56 are [...] and [...] and [...] e*ist [...] all [...] all [...] [...] all [...] [...] the% 'ein [...] and the% 'ein [...]

[...] and [...] [and] those [...] him, the AUTOGENES. [I] re!eived a likeness from [all] these. The aeons [of the] AUTOGENES o$ened (and) a [ reat ?i ht] !ame forth [...] from the aeons of the [tri$le-] male, and the% [ lorified] them. The fo#r aeons were desirin within a [...] aeon the [...] $attern [...] sin le one e*istin [...] Then PHSKH, the !hild of the !hild [...] 57 (= lines unrecoverable) [... IESSEUS] MAZAREUS IESSEDEKEUS [...] [...] of [... seal ...] #$on him [...] and "a'riel (9 line unrecoverable) [...] seal [...] fo#r ra!es There !ame 'efore me she who 'elon s to [the lories], the male and [vir inal ...] IL. [I] deli'erated a'o#t the !rowns, (and) she said to me, 0+h% [has] %o#r s$irit deli'erated [a'o#t] the !rowns and the [seals] on them [...] are the !rowns whi!h stren then ever% [s$irit ...] and ever% so#l, and [the] seals whi!h are [#$on] the tri$le ra!es and [...] the invisi'le s$irit 58 are [...] (: lines unrecoverable) and [...] [vir in ...] [...] and [...] [...] seek [...] [...]in the[...] [in] them [...] [...] and [...] [...] he [stren thened] and the seals [...] ra!e are those 'elon in to the AUTOGENES and the PRTOPHANS and the KALUPTOS. The [Invisi'le] S$irit [is] a $s%!hi! and intelle!t#al $ower, a knower and a fore-knower. Therefore he is with ["a'riel] the s$irit- iver [so that] when he ives a hol% s$irit he mi ht seal him with the !rown and !rown him, [havin ] ods [...] 59 [...] [...] the (< lines unrecoverable) [...] the (9 line unrecoverable) [...] [...] s$irit [...] to one (fem.) (9 line unrecoverable) [...] the% e*ist [...] and the% were not [in] them in order that the% mi ht ['e!ome] sim$le and [mi ht] not 'e do#'led [a!!ordin to] an% $attern. [These] then are the sim$le, $erfe!t individ#als. [...] and all these [...] of the aeons [...] him, all these [...] who e*ist in a $la!e [...] all-$erfe!t it re6#ired a reat [...] to see them, for [...] 6 (: lines unrecoverable) $erfe!t [...] (< lines unrecoverable) [...] ever% [...] e*ist [...] he is [...] [hear] him [...] [...] and [...] in tho# ht [...] a first tho# ht [...] sin!e [...] is in a $ower she is $erfe!t [...] it is fittin for %o# to [...] a'o#t ever%thin , and [...] those to whom %o# will listen thro# h a

tho# ht of those hi her than $erfe!t and also those whom %o# will [know] in a so#l [of] the $erfe!t ones.0 [+hen] she has said this, she ['a$ti7ed me] 61 (@ lines unrecoverable) [...] the first [... and] I re!eived $ower (9 line unrecoverable) [... I] re!eived the form [...] re!eived [...] [...] e*istin #$on m% [...] re!eive a hol% s$irit [I] !ame into 'ein [reall%] e*istin . Then, she 'ro# ht me into the reat [aeon] where the $erfe!t tri$le-male (is). I saw the invisi'le !hild within an invisi'le ?i ht. Then [she] 'a$ti7ed me a ain in 62 (= lines unrecoverable) [...] her [...] (9 line unrecoverable) [and] I [...] I was a'le to [...] [...] the reat one [...] and $erfe!t [...] IL who 'elon s to all [the lories] said to me, 05o# have [re!eived] all the ['a$tisms] in whi!h it is fittin to ['e] 'a$ti7ed, and %o# have 'e!ome [$erfe!t] [...] the hearin of [...] all. Now [!all] a ain #$on SALAME! and [...] and the all-$erfe!t Ar[...] the ?i hts of the [aeon] BARBEL and the immeas#ra'le knowled e. The% will reveal 63 [...] [...] invisi'le (: lines unrecoverable) [...] whi!h [...] [... vir in] BARBEL [and] the Invisi'le [tri$le] $owerf#l S$irit.0 [+hen] IOUL who 'elon s to all the lories [had said this] to me, she [$#t me down] and went and stood 'efore the PRTOPHANS. Then, I was [...] over m% s$irit, [while] $ra%in ferventl% to the reat ?i hts in tho# ht. I 'e an !allin #$on SALAME! and Se- [...]en and the all-$erfe!t [...]e. I saw lories whi!h are reater than $owers, [and] the% annointed me. I was a'le 64 [...] in m% [...] and[...] (< lines unrecoverable) she !overed [...] all [...] SALAME! [and] those [who] have revealed ever%thin [to me] sa%in , 0Zstrianos, [learn] of those thin s a'o#t whi!h %o# asked. (9 line unrecoverable) and [he is] a sin le one [who] e*ists 'efore [all] these who reall% e*ist [in the] immeas#ra'le and #ndivided S$irit [...] [...] the All whi!h [e*ists] in him and the [...] [...] and that one whi!h [...] after him. It is he alone who !rosses it [...]
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[...] all these [...] he is [...] [...] first [...] [... of] tho# ht [...] of ever% $ower [... downward] [...] he is esta'lished [...] stand, he [$asses] into the $athwa% to a $la!e [...] and infinite. /e is far hi her than ever% #nattaina'le one, %et he ives [...] reater than an% 'od% (and) is $#rer than ever% #nem'odied one, enterin ever% tho# ht and ever% 'od% ['e!a#se he] is more $owerf#l than ever%thin , ever% ra!e and s$e!ies, as their All. 66 [...] e*ist (= lines unrecoverable) to a $artial (...] [...] $art [...] [e*ist] in a [...] know her [...] [...he is] from him [...] whi!h reall% e*ists, who (is) from the S$irit who [reall%] e*ists, the one alone [...] for the% are $owers of [...] 8*isten!e [...] and ?ife and 2lessedness. In 8*isten!e he e*ists [as] a sim$le head, his [word] and s$e!ies. ?et the one who will find him !ome into e*isten!e. 8*istin in ?ife, he is alive [...]
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[he havin ] knowled e [...] know all these [...] him alone [...] for od [...] #nless [...] [...] alone, and he [...] [...] in him [...] [...] the sin le [...] [...] for he e*ists as [...] [in] that whi!h is his, whi!h [e*ists] as a form of a form, [...] #nit% of the [...]. /e e*ists as [the] [...] sin!e he is in [the] mind. /e is within it, not !omin forth to an% $la!e 'e!a#se he is a sin le $erfe!t, sim$le s$irit. [2e!a#se] it is his $la!e and [...], it is within him and the All that he !omes into 'ein . It is he who e*ists, he who 68 [...] [...] and a [...] and a [$rote!tor] in him. ?ife [...] and a!tivit% of the ins#'stantial [...] the [...] whi!h e*ists in him [e*ists] in him [...] e*ists 'e!a#se of [him ...] 'lessed and a [...] $erfe!t, and [...] whi!h e*ist in [...] whi!h reall% e*ists. The form of the a!tivit% whi!h e*ists is 'lessed. 2% re!eivin 8*isten!e, he re!eives $ower, the [...] a $erfe!tion [...] se$arate forever. Then he e*ists as a $erfe!t one. Therefore, he e*ists as a $erfe!t one 'e!a#se he is #ndivided with his own re ion, for nothin e*ists 'efore him e*!e$t the [$erfe!t] #nit%. (Pages 69-72 are blank; they may have been numbered.) e*isten!e [...] [...] she is salvation [...] [all ...] and he [...] [...] 'e a'le, nor does he [...] [...] him, if he [...] him to him, all these [...] [...] for he [who] [...] in e*isten!e [...] this one, he totall% [e*ists] as ?ife, and in 2lessedness he has knowled e. If he a$$rehends the [ lories], he is $erfe!t3 '#t if he a$$rehends [two] or one, he is dr#nk, as he has re!eived [from] him. It is 'e!a#se of [him] that there e*ist those with so#ls and those witho#t so#ls3 'e!a#se of him (e*ist) those who will 'e saved3 'e!a#se of him (e*ist) those who will [$erish] sin!e the% have not [re!eived] from him3 'e!a#se of [him] (e*ists) matter and 'odies3 'e!a#se of him (e*ist) non- 74 [...] ['e!a#se of]
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[...] she [...] [...] first e*isten!e [...] ins#'stantial and that [....] It is [from] the #ndivided one that [it] moves toward 8*isten!e in a!tivit% and [intelle!t#al] $erfe!tion and intelle!t#al life, whi!h was 2lessedness and 1ivinit%. The [whole] S$irit, $erfe!t, sim$le and invisi'le, has 'e!ome sin leness in 8*isten!e and a!tivit% and a sim$le tri$le-[$ower], an invisi'le s$irit, an ima e of that whi!h reall% e*ists, the one
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of the reall% [e*istin ] one [...] [he] e*ists in a [...] she 'ein an ima e [...] in a t#rnin [...] $ower to ;oin with his [...] she havin seen the [...] whi!h e*isted [...] all-$erfe!tion [...] that one, 'e!a#se he [...] $re-e*ist and [...] rest #$on all these, he [...] $re-e*ist 'ein known as tri$le-$owerf#l. The Invisi'le S$irit has never 'een i norant. /e alwa%s knew, '#t he was alwa%s $erfe!tion [and] 'lessedness [....] 81 She 'e!ame i norant [...] and she [...] 'od% and [...] $romise [...] li ht [...] [...] she e*ists [...] [...] in order that she mi ht not !ome forth an%more nor !ome into e*isten!e a$art from $erfe!tion. She knew herself and him. /avin made herself stand, she was at rest 'e!a#se of him, sin!e she was [from] him who reall% e*ists, Hshe was from him who reall% e*ists) and all those. (Th#s), she knows herself and him who $re-e*ists. 2% followin him the% !ame into 'ein e*istin H the% !ame into 'ein e*istin ) and a$$earin thro# h those 82 [who $re-]e*ist. And [...] thro# h the [...] the% havin a$$eared [...] two [...] the% a$$eared [... the one] who knows him 'eforehand, as an eternal s$a!e, sin!e he had 'e!ome his se!ond knowled e, on!e a ain the knowled e of his knowled e, the #n'orn KALYPTOS. [The%] stood #$on him who reall% e*ists, for she knew a'o#t him, in order that those who follow her mi ht !ome into 'ein havin a $la!e and that those who !ome forth (from her) mi ht not 'e 'efore her '#t mi ht 'e!ome hol% (and) sim$le. She is the !om$rehension of od 83 who $re[e*ists. She] rested [...] to the sim$le [...] salvation salvation [...] [...] he [...] [...] li ht whi!h was fore- [known]. She was !alled BARBEL 'e!a#se (of her 'ein ) tho# ht3 the tri$le [ra!e] (whi!h is) male, vir inal (and) $erfe!t and

her knowled e thro# h whi!h she !ame into 'ein in order that the% mi ht not [...] her down and that she mi ht not !ome forth an%more thro# h those in her and those who follow her. Rather, she is sim$le in order that she mi ht 'e a'le to know the od who $re-e*ists 'e!a#se she !ame into 'ein as a ood ($rod#!t) of him sin!e she (9 line unrecoverable)
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[...] and knows [...] and the [...] and the [$erfe!tion] and [...] $rod#!es and [...] the first KALYPTOS [...] them all, e*isten!e and a!tivit%, divinit%, ra!e and s$e!ies. 2#t are $owers one. In what wa% (is it) that he is one, that is, not a $artial one, '#t (one of) those of the All. +hat is the #nit% whi!h is #nit%. Is he from [...] a!tivit% [...] life and [...] of [...]. And [...] 86 (I lines unrecoverable) $ower [...] as [...] [...] $er!e$ti'le [...] [...] all-$erfe!t [...] [...] she havin s$oken, [...] 05o# are reat, APHRDN. 5o# are $erfe!t, NEPHRDN.0 To his e*isten!e she sa%s, 05o# are reat, DIPHANEUS[...]. She [is] his a!tivit% and life and divinit%. 5o# are reat, HARMDN [...], who 'elon s to all the lories, EPIPHANEUS- and his 'lessedness and the $erfe!tion [of] the sin leness [...] all [...]0 87 (@ lines unrecoverable) [...] forever [...] intelle!t#al [... $erfe!t] the vir in BARBEL thro# h the sim$li!it% of the 'lessedness of the tri$le $owerf#l Invisi'le S$irit. She who has known him has known herself. And he, 'ein one ever%where, 'ein #ndivided, havin [...] has [...] and she has known [herself as] his a!tivit% [...] and he has known [...] knowled e [...] within 88 [...] (I lines unrecoverable) 'less [...] [...] BRITHEUS, RIGENAR], RIMENIOS, ARAMEN, ALPHLEGES, LILIOUPHEUS, LALAMEUS, NOTHEUS [...] reat is %o#r name [...] it is stron .

/e who knows (it) knows ever%thin . 5o# are one, %o# are one, SIOU, E[...], APHRDN, %o# are the [aeon] of the aeons of the $erfe!t reat one, the first KALYPTOS of the [...] a!tivit%, and [...] he is [...] his ima e [...] of his, he [...] [...] (I lines unrecoverable) [...e*isten!e] [...] and he (< lines unrecoverable) [...] in [...the lor%] [...] lories [...] a [...] in (: lines unrecoverable) [...] aeon (: lines unrecoverable) 9 (F lines unrecoverable) e*ist [...] (< lines unrecoverable) [and (: lines unrecoverable) ['lessed ...] (9 line unrecoverable) [$erfe!t...] (I lines unrecoverable) 91 (F lines unrecoverable) [...] od (: lines unrecoverable) [...] first [...] and $owers [... all-$erfe!t] the% are [...] of all these and a !a#se of [them] all, a [...] BARBEL (9 line unrecoverable) [...] him and [...] all these [...] he not havin [...] and his [...] 'e!ome [...] '#t 92 [...] (F lines unrecoverable) of [...] (9 line unrecoverable) [and ...] (< lines unrecoverable) and a [...] in a [...] a!!ordin to the [tho# ht] whi!h reall% [e*ists ...] whi!h e*ists as [...] name [...] (9 line unrecoverable) KALYPTOS [...] the [...] tri$le [...] (9 line unrecoverable) '#t [...] 93 name him.
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[...] for [...] he knows (: lines unrecoverable) [...] fill [...] she a$$ears [...] knowled e [...] she stands [...] (: lines unrecoverable) (lines <9ff, !a. @ lines, do not s#rvive) 98 [...] a $erfe!t #nit% of a !om$lete #nit%, and when she divided the All [...] from the All [...] e*isten!e and [...] [...] the tho# hts [...] (< lines unrecoverable) [$er!e$tion] (l< lines unrecoverable) (lines <<ff, !a. C lines, do not s#rvive) 99 [...] [e*isten!e ...] [...] in [...] whi!h (9 line unrecoverable) knowled e (: lines unrecoverable) [...] she 'lesses (= lines unrecoverable) [...] whi!h (9 line unrecoverable) [...] and (= lines unrecoverable) (lines <9ff, !a. @ lines, do not s#rvive) 1 (C lines unrecoverable) Arm[o7el (< lines unrecoverable) is the [...] [thro# h ...] $ower [...] (: lines unrecoverable) whi!h [...] (@ lines unrecoverable) (lines <<ff, !a. = lines, do not s#rvive) 1 1 [...] invisi'le [...] [...] that one [...] [... this] is the [...] (9 line unrecoverable) [...] form (< lines unrecoverable) [...] of a (: lines unrecoverable) [...] KALYPTOS [...] #ndivided (@ lines unrecoverable) (lines <Jff, !a. = lines, do not s#rvive) 1 2 [...] whi!h e*ist [...] [...] the [...] (9 line unrecoverable) and [...] (= lines unrecoverable) he [...] (: lines unrecoverable) and [...] those [...] a [...] (: lines unrecoverable) some [...]

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(9 line unrecoverable) and [...] (< lines unrecoverable) the [...] (9 line unrecoverable) in the [...] these [...] the[...] of [...] alive [...] (= lines unrecoverable) in [...] (9 line unrecoverable) (>a es 1 9"112 do not s#rvive) and an els and daimons and minds and so#ls and livin 'ein s and trees and 'odies and those whi!h are 'efore them, those of the sim$le elements of sim$le ori ins, and those whi!h arein [...] and #nmi*ed !onf#sion, air [and] water and earth and n#m'er and %okin and movement and [...] and order and 'reath and all the rest. The% are fo#rth $owers whi!h are [in] the fo#rth aeon, those whi!h] are in the [...] and [...] $erfe!t of [...] $owers [...] $owers [...] of [...] of [...] an els [of the] an els, so#ls [of the] so#ls, livin 'ein s [of the] livin 'ein s, trees [of] [the trees ...] [...] and [...]
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There are those who are as 'e otten, and those who are in an #n'orn 'e ettin , and there are those who are hol% and eternal, and the imm#ta'le ones in death and destr#!tion in indestr#!ti'ilit%3 and there are those who are as All3 there are those [who are] ra!es and those who are [in] a world and order3 there are those in [indestr#!ti'ilit%], and there are the first [who stand] and the se!ond [in] all of them. [All] those [who] are from them and [those who] are [in] them, and [from] these who [follow] them [...] (9 line unrecoverable) these [...] and [the] fo#rth aeons stood [...] [...] the% e*istin [...] (< lines unrecoverable) in them, he 'ein s!attered a'road. The% are not !rowded a ainst one another, '#t to the !ontrar% the% are alive, e*istin in themselves and a reein with one another, as the% are from a sin le ori in. The% are re!on!iled 'e!a#se the% are all in a sin le aeon of KALYPTOS, [...] 'ein divided in $ower, for the% e*ist in a!!ord with ea!h of the aeons, standin in relationshi$ to the one whi!h has rea!hed them.
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all these [are] eternities, ['#t] the% are different [...] and order and lor% [...] whi!h e*ists [in ...] fo#r aeons and [...] who $re-e*ists [...] od [...] [...] the% are [...] (9 line unrecoverable) All of them e*ist in one, dwellin to ether and $erfe!ted individ#all% in fellowshi$ and filled with the aeon whi!h reall% e*ists. There are those amon them (who stand) as dwellin in essen!e and those (who stand) as essen!e in !ond#!t or [s#fferin ] 'e!a#se the% are in a se!ond, for the #nen enderedness of the #n enerated one who reall% e*ists is amon them. +hen the #n enerated have !ome into 'ein , their $ower stands3 there is an in!or$oreal essen!e with [an] im$erisha'le ['od%]. The [imm#ta'le one] is [there] who [reall% ] e*ists. 2e!a#se it transforms [thro# h] !han e, the [...] in destr#!ti'le fire stands with [all] [these ...] [...] one [...] 117 he stands. It is there that all livin 'ein s dwell, e*istin individ#all% (%et) all ;oined to ether. The knowled e of the knowled e is there to ether with a settin #$ of i noran!e. &haos is there and a $erfe!t $la!e for all of them, and the% are stran e. Tr#e ?i ht (is there), also enli htened darkness to ether with the one who does not reall% e*ist - [he] does not reall% e*ist. [...] the non-'ein who does not e*ist at all. 2#t it is he, the "ood, from whom derives the ood and what is $leasant and the divine3 (it is he) from [whom] !omes "od and he who [...], he who is reat. Eor [...] in $art [...] form and "od that [...]and the one [...] [...] a od [...] [...] all these [...] [...] darkness [...]
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(9 line unrecoverable) 118 and a ra!e. /e has not mi*ed with an%thin , '#t he remains alone in himself and rests himself on his limitless limit. /e is [the] "od of those who reall% e*ist, a seer and a revealer of "od. +hen she had stren thened him who [knew her], the aeon BARBEL, the knowled e of the Invisi'le Tri$le >owerf#l >erfe!t S$irit, in order to [...] her, said, 0/e [...] a life. I am alive in [...] 5o#, the One, are alive. /e is alive, [he] who is three. It is %o# who are [the] three who are three [do#'led ...] E E E. The first of seven [...] the third [...] the se!ond [...] E E E E A A A A A A A [...] [...] two, '#t he [fo#r ...] [...] knowled e [...] (9 line unrecoverable) (9 line unrecoverable) 119 a $art. +hat kind of mind, and what kind of wisdom. +hat kind of #nderstandin , what kind of tea!hin . /is ?i hts are named (as follows), the first is ARMDN and she who is with him, [...]3 the se!ond is 1i$hane [... and] she who is with him, DIPH[ANEUS ...]3 the third is MALSDN and she who is with him [...]3 the fo#rth is SOLMIS and she who is with him, OLMIS.

KALYPTOS e*ists havin [...] with his Eorm. /e is invisi'le to all these so that the% all mi ht 'e stren thened '% him [...] [...] he e*ists in [...] all-$erfe!t 'e!a#se [he has] fo#r e*istin (9 line unrecoverable) [...] nor a!!ordin to a [...] alone [... BARBEL [...] (< lines unrecoverable) 12 know him and the one who is set over a se!ond. The first of the aeons is HARMDN, the father- lor%. The se!ond ?i ht (is) one whom [he does] not [know], '#t all the [individ#als], wisdom [...] e*ist in the fo#rth aeon who has revealed [himself] and all the lories. [The third] ?i ht (is) he [...] not him, as the word of all [the forms] and that other [ lor%], #nderstandin , [who is] in the third [aeon]. There are fo#r in MALSDN and M[...] NIOS. The fo#rth ?i ht is the one who [...] of all the forms e*istin [...] a tea!hin and lor% [...] and the tr#th of the [fo#r aeons], OLMIS, [...] and the [...] (< lines unrecoverable) 121 fifth. The first (is the one) who is the se!ond, that is, it is the all-$erfe!t KALYPTOS, for the fo#r ?i hts e*ist. It is KALYPTOS who has divided a ain, and the% e*ist to ether. All who know those who e*ist as lories are $erfe!t. This one [...] knows ever%thin a'o#t them all is all-$erfe!t. Erom him is ever% $ower, ever% one and their entire aeon, 'e!a#se the% all !ome to him and the% all !ome from him, the $ower of them all (and) the ori in of them all. +hen he learned [of them], he 'e!ame a [...] aeon and a in enerateness. [...] other aeons [in ...]a[...] (< lines unrecoverable) 122 'e!ome a BARBEL, he 'e!omes a first aeon 'e!a#se of the eternit% of the Invisi'le S$irit, the se!ond in enerateness. These are all the lories, the limitless APHRDNS, [...] the ineffa'les, the revealers, all the [...] imm#ta'les, the lor%-revealers, the twi!e-revealed MARSDNS, the limitless SOLMISES, the self-revealers who are [f#ll] of lor%, those who [wait for] lor%, the 'lessers, the D[arse-] dons, the KALYPTOI who [...] the limits [...] #$on the limits [...] those who e*ist [...] (: lines unrecoverable) (?ines <=ff, I or <, do not s#rvive) 123 ten tho#sand lories in them. Therefore, he is a $erfe!t lor% so that whenever he !an ;oin (another) and $revail, he e*ists as $erfe!t. Th#s, even if he enters into a 'od% and a death (!omin ) from matter, the% do not re!eive reater honor 'e!a#se of their all$erfe!tness from whom !ame all these, 'ein $erfe!t, to ether with those who are with him. Indeed, ea!h of the aeons has ten tho#sand aeons in himself, so that '% e*istin to ether he ma% 'e!ome a $erfe!t aeon.

/e e*ists in the [2lessedness] of the Tri$le [>owerf#l] >erfe!t Invisi'le [S$irit ...] silen!e [...] who 'e!ame first [...] and the knowled e (: lines unrecoverable) 124 whole, a silen!e of the se!ond knowled e, the first tho# ht in the will of the Tri$le >owerf#l, 'e!a#se he !ommanded it to know him, so that he mi ht 'e!ome all-$erfe!t and $erfe!t in himself. 2% sim$li!it% and 'lessedness he is known. [I re!eived] oodness thro# h that follower of the BARBEL aeon who ives 'ein to himself. [...] is not the $ower, '#t she is the one who 'elon s to him. The aeons whi!h reall% e*ist do so in silen!e. 8*isten!e was ina!tivit%, and knowled e of the self-esta'lished KALYPTOS was ineffa'le. /avin !ome [from the] fo#rth, the [...] tho# ht, the >roto[$hanes], as (the) >erfe!t Dale [Dind] (< lines unrecoverable) 125 he is his ima e, e6#al to him in $ower and lor% '#t with res$e!t to order hi her than him, (%et not hi her) in aeon. ?ike him he has all these ($arts) livin (and) dwellin to ether in one. To ether with the aeon in the aeons he has a fo#rfold differen!e with all the rest who are there. 2#t KALYPTOS reall% e*ists, and with him is lo!ated she who 'elon s to all the lories, IOUL, the male vir in lor%, thro# h whom are seen the all$erfe!t ones. Those who stand 'efore him are the tri$le [...] !hild, the tri$le [...], the AUTOGENES [...] /e has [...] in one [... the one] a ain who $revails over the [...] e*istin in [...] 126 of ten tho#sand- fold. The first aeon in him, from whom is the first ?i ht, (is) SOLMIS and the od revealer, sin!e he is infinite a!!ordin to the t%$e in the KALYPTOS aeon and DO!OMEDN. The se!ond aeon (is) AKREMN the ineffa'le to ether with the se!ond ?i ht ZAKHTHOS and IAKHTOS. The third aeon is AMBROSIOS the vir in to ether with the third ?i ht STHEUS and ANTIPHANTS. The fo#rth aeon is the 'lesser [...] ra!e with [the] fo#rth ?i ht SELDA and ELENOS. The [...] him [...] [...] ARMDN (9 line unrecoverable)
127 PHO ZO ZO Z[...] ZSI ZSI ZA ZOOO ZSEN ZSEN - the and the fo#r who are ei ht-fold are alive. OOOO A - %o# who

individ#als are 'efore them, and %o# who are in them all. The% are within the $erfe!t male ARMDN PRTOPHANS of all those who dwell to ether. Sin!e all the individ#als were e*istin as $erfe!t ones, the A!tivit% of all the individ#als a$$eared a ain as the divine AUTOGENES.

/e stands within an aeon 'e!a#se there are within him fo#r different self'e otten aeons. The first aeon in him as the first ?i ht (is) HARMOZLORNEOS-EUTHROUNIOS. [/e] was !alled (9 line unrecoverable) [... The] se!ond [aeon as] [the se!ond ?i ht is] [ORAIAL ...]-OUDAS[...]OS, AP[...] 128 ARROS[...]. The third (aeon) of the third ?i ht (is) DAUEITHELARANEUS- EPIPHANIOS-EIDEOS. The fo#rth (aeon) as the fo#rth ?i ht (is) LLTH-KODR- EPIPHANIOS-ALLOGENIOS. 2#t as for all the rest who are in matter, the% were all left (there). It was 'e!a#se of knowled e of reatness, a#da!it% and $ower that the% !ame into e*isten!e and !omforted themselves. 2e!a#se the% did not know "od, the% shall $ass awa%. 2ehold, Zstrianos, %o# have heard all these thin s of the ods are i norant and (whi!h) seem infinite to an els.0 I took !o#ra e and said, 0I am [still ] wonderin a'o#t the Tri$le >owerf#l Invisi'le >erfe!t S$irit, how he e*ists for himself, [how he !a#ses] ever%thin [...] who reall% e*ist [...] what is the [...] [...] and [...] [...] of [...] 129 ver% [...] the% set [me] down (and) left. APOPHANTS and APHROPAIS, the Air in-li ht, !ame 'efore me and 'ro# ht me into PRTOPHANS, (the) reat male $erfe!t Dind. I saw all of them as the% e*ist in one. I ;oined with them all (and) 'lessed the KALYPTOS aeon, the vir in BARBEL and the Invisi'le S$irit. I 'e!ame all-$erfe!t and re!eived $ower. I was written in lor% and sealed. I re!eived there a $erfe!t !rown. I !ame forth to the $erfe!t individ#als, and all of them were 6#estionin me. The% were listenin to the loftiness of m% knowled e. The% were re;oi!in and re!eivin $ower. +hen I a ain !ame down to the aeons of AUTOGENES, I re!eived a tr#e ima e, $#re (%et) s#ita'le for the $er!e$ti'le (world). I !ame down to the aeon !o$ies and !ame down here 13 to the air%-earth. I wrote three ta'lets (and) left them as knowled e for those who wo#ld !ome after me, the livin ele!t. Then I !ame down to the $er!e$ti'le world and $#t on m% ima e. 2e!a#se it was i norant, I stren thened it (and) went a'o#t $rea!hin the tr#th to ever%one. Neither the an eli! 'ein s of the world nor the ar!hons saw me, for I ne ated a m#ltit#de of [;#d ments] whi!h 'ro# ht me near death. 2#t an errin m#ltit#de I awakened sa%in , 0Bnow those who are alive and the hol% seed of STH. 1o not [show] diso'edien!e to me. [Awaken] %o#r divine $art to "od, and as for %o#r sinless ele!t so#l, stren then it. 2ehold death here and seek the imm#ta'le in enerateness, the [Eather] of ever%thin . /e invites %o#, while the% re$rove %o#. Altho# h the% ill-treat 131 %o#, he will not a'andon %o#. 1o not 'a$ti7e %o#rselves with death nor entr#st %o#rselves to those who are inferior to %o# instead of to those who are 'etter. Elee from the madness and the 'onda e of $assivit% (lit. Lfemaleness4) and !hoose for %o#rselves

the salvation of a!tion (lit. Lmaleness4). 5o# have not !ome to s#ffer3 rather, %o# have !ome to es!a$e %o#r 'onda e. Release %o#rselves, and that whi!h has 'o#nd %o# will 'e dissolved. Save %o#rselves so that %o#r so#l ma% 'e saved. The kind Eather has sent %o# the Savior and iven %o# stren th. +h% are %o# hesitatin . Seek when %o# are so# ht3 when %o# are invited, listen, for time is short. 1o not 'e led astra%. The aeon of the aeons of the livin ones is reat, %et (so also is) the [$#nishment] of those who are #n!onvin!ed. Dan% 'onds and !hastisers s#rro#nd %o#. 132 Elee 6#i!kl% 'efore death rea!hes %o#. ?ook at the ?i ht. Elee the 1arkness. 1o not 'e led astra% to %o#r destr#!tion. Zstrianos Ora!les of Tr#th of Zstrianos "od of Tr#th Tea!hin s of Zoroaster