Three Steles of Seth - The Third Stele of Seth

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We rejoice we rejoice we rejoice.

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We saw we saw we saw what really preexists, that it really is and is the first eternal one.

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You, unborn, from you come the eternal ones and eternal realms, the all-perfect ones, who are established, and the perfect beings.

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We praise you, nonbeing, reality before realities, first being before beings, father of divinity and life, creator of mind, donor of goodness, donor of blessedness.

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We all praise you, you who know, with glorifying praise, you, because of whom all these are . . . who know yourself through yourself alone.

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There is nothing active prior to you.

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You are spirit, alone and living.

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You know the One, that we cannot speak of this One, which is yours everywhere.

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Your light enlightens us.

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Command us to see you so we may be saved.

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Knowledge of you is our salvation.

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Command!

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If you command, we have been saved. Truly we are saved

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We have seen you through mind.

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You are all these and save them all, you who will not be saved nor have been saved by them.

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You have commanded us.

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You are One, you are One, as one might tell you, you are One.

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You are a single, living spirit. How shall we give you a name?

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We have none. You are their existence, you are their life, you are their mind.

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In you they rejoice.

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You ordered them saved through your word . . . the single glory, at the fore,

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O hidden one, blessed Senaon, who conceived himself,

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You are in you, you are before you, and after you none have come to act.

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How shall we praise you?

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We cannot, but we thank you, we who are inferior.

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For you commanded us, you who are our superior, to glorify you as best we can.

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We praise you because we are saved and we always glorify you.

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Now we shall glorify you that we be saved to eternal salvation.

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We have praised you for we can.

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We have been saved.

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You always wished us to do it.

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We have done it. . . . Whoever remembers these and always glorifies will be perfect among the perfect and free of suffering beyond all things. They all praise these, individually and collectively, and afterward they will be silent.

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As assigned, they ascend. After silence, they descend from the third. They praise the second, and afterward the first. The way of ascent is the way of descent.

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So understand, as those who are alive, that you have succeeded. You have taught yourselves about things infinite. Marvel at the truth within them, and at the revelation.