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Three Steles of Seth

The First Stele of Seth
Gnostic trans. Marvin Meyer and Willis Barnstone • c. 3rd century CE
1
I praise you, father Geradamas, I, your son Emmacha Seth, whom you produced without generation for the praise of our god.
2
I am your son and you are my mind, O my father.
3
I have sown and produced, but you have seen the majesties and have stood endlessly.
4
I praise you, father.
5
Praise me, father.
6
Because of you I am, because of god you are, because of you I am with him. You are light and you see light.
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You have revealed light.
8
You are a Mirotheas, you are my Mirotheos.
9
I praise you as god, I praise your divinity.
10
Great is the good one, self-conceived, who stood, the god who was first to stand.
11
You came in goodness, you appeared and you revealed goodness.
12
I shall speak your name, you are a primary name.
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You are unborn, you have appeared to reveal the eternal.
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You are who is, so you have revealed those who really are.
15
You are uttered by a voice, but by mind you are glorified.
16
You are powerful everywhere so the world of senses also knows you, because of you and your seed.
17
You are merciful and from another race, and it is placed over another race.
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Now, you are from another race, and it is placed over another race.
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You are from another race, you are different.
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You are merciful, you are eternal.
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You are placed over a race, you made all these increase because of my seed, and you know it is placed in generation.
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But they are from other races, they are different.
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They are placed over other races, they are placed in life.
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You are a Mirotheos. I praise its power given to me.
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You who made the masculinities that really are three times male, who were divided into five, who were given to us in triple power, who were conceived without generation, who came forth from the superior and for the inferior entered the midst, you are a parent through a parent, a word from a command.
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We praise you, triple male, you have unified all through them all, you have empowered us.
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You came into being from One, from One you left. You have come to One.
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You have saved, you have saved, you have saved us, you who are crowned and crown.
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We praise you eternally, we praise you, we who are saved, who are perfect beings, who are perfect because of you, who have become perfect with you.
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You who are complete, who complete, who are perfect through all these, who are everywhere similar, triple male, you have stood, you were first to stand. You have been divided everywhere, you have remained one.
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Whomever you wished you have saved, and you wish that all who are worthy be saved.
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You are perfect, you are perfect, you are perfect.