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Allogenes the Stranger

Youel: The Barbelo Aeon
Gnostic trans. John D. Turner • c. 3rd century CE
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And then again, O my son Messos, the all-glorious one, Youel spoke to me; she appeared [to] me and said: "No one is able to hear these things except the great powers alone. O Allogenes, you have been vested with a great power, that with which the Father of the All vested you before you came to this place, so that
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those things that are difficult to distinguish you might distinguish, and those things that are unknown to the multitude you might know, and that you might be restored to that which is yours, which was already intact and so needs no restoration.
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[...] [...] [...] [...] [...] ... [ ] ... [ ... to] you [a] form [and a revelation]. As for the Triple-[Powered] Invisible Spirit, outside of him [there is situated] a non-discriminating, incorporeal, [timeless] knowledge. Like all [the] aeons, the Barbelo-Aeon is also endowed with the types and forms of the things that truly exist, the image of Kalyptos;
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and endowed with their intelligent rational principles, it bears the male Intellect Protophanes as an image, and acts within the Individuals either with craft or with skill or with partial instinct;
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endowed with the divine Autogenes as an image and knowing each one of these (individuals), it acts separately and individually, continually rectifying defects arising from Nature;
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endowed with the divine Triple Male as an integration (or preservation) of them all with the Invisible Spirit, it is a rational expression of deliberation, the perfect Child. And this hypostasis is a [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] ... [...]