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Allogenes the Stranger

Parallel with the Apocryphon of John (BG ,6-25,7 = II ,17-33)
Gnostic trans. John D. Turner • c. 3rd century CE
1
He is neither Divinity nor Blessedness nor Perfection. Rather he is an unknowable entity, not an attribute. Rather he is something else superior to Blessedness and Divinity and Perfection, for he is not perfect, but he is another thing that is superior. He is neither boundless nor is he bounded by another. Rather he is something superior.
2
He is neither corporeal nor incorporeal, neither Great [nor] Small, neither a quantity nor a [<quality>].
3
Nor is he something that exists that one can know; rather he is something else that is superior that one cannot know.
4
Even if primary revelation and self-knowledge characterize him, it is he alone who knows himself.
5
Since he is not among existing things, he is something else superior to superlative, even in comparison what does and does not apply to him.
6
He neither participates in eternity nor does he participate in time, nor does he receive anything from anything else.
7
He is neither diminishable, nor diminishing, nor undiminishable.
8
But he is self-comprehension, like something so unknowable, that he exceeds those who excel in unknowability.
9
Even if he is endowed with blessedness and perfection and silence, (he is) not the Blessed One, nor is he Perfection or Stillness.
10
But he is something existing that one cannot [know]--and which is at rest. Rather they are completely unknowable aspects of him, while he is much superior in beauty than all good things. And in this way he is universally unknowable in every respect, and it is through them all that he is in them all.
11
Not only is he the unknowable knowledge that is proper to him, he is also united with the ignorance that sees him.
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a in what way he is unknowable, or sees him as he is in every respect or would say that he is something like knowledge, he has acted impiously against him, being liable to judgment because he did not know God. He will not be judged by that One, who is neither concerned for anything nor has any desire, but he is (judged) through himself because he has not found the truly existing origin. He was blind apart from the quiescent source of revelation, the actualization deriving from the Triple-Power of the First Thought of the Invisible Spirit.