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Allogenes the Stranger

Youel: The Generation of the Barbelo Aeon
Gnostic trans. John D. Turner • c. 3rd century CE
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[...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] since they are [perfect Individuals. And they are] all [unified, in harmony]. The [Mind], the guardian [I provided] [for you] taught you. And it is the power that [exists] in you that [extended] [itself], since [it (you?)] often [rejoiced] in the Triple Powered One who [belongs to] all [those] who [truly] exist with the [immeasurable] one.
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O eternal [light of] the knowledge that has [appeared]! O male virginal [glory]! [O first] aeon from [a] unique threefold [aeon]! [O] Triple-Powered One who [truly exists]!
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For after it [contracted] [it expanded], and [it spread out] and became complete, [and] it was empowered [with] all of them, by knowing [itself] [in addition to the perfect Invisible Spirit], and it [became] [an] aeon.
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By knowing [herself] she knew that one, [and] she became Kalyptos [because] she acts in those whom she knows.
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She is Protophanes, a perfect, invisible Intellect, Harmedon.
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Empowering the individuals, she is Triple Male, since she is individually [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [they are] [unified since she] is [their] [Existence], and she [sees] them all [truly] existing.
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[She] contains the divine Autogenes:
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When she [knew] her Existence and when she stood at rest [upon] this one (Autogenes), he (<she>?) saw them [all] existing individually just as [they] are.
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And when [they (he? she?)] become as he is, [he (she? they?) shall] see the divine Triple Male, the power that is [higher than] God. [He is the thought] of all those who [are] unified.
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When he (the Triple Male) [contemplates them (unified)], he contemplates the great male, [perfect?], Intellect [Protophanes]. He is their [procession]; when [he] sees it, [he also sees] [the truly existing ones], [since it is the] procession [for those who] are unified.
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And when [he has seen] these (truly existing), he has seen Kalyptos.
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And when he sees the unity of the hidden ones, [he] sees the Barbalo-Aeon, [the] unbegotten offspring of [that One].
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When one should [see] how it [lives] (one sees the Triple Powered One)
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[...] [...] [...] [...] [ ... you have heard about the] abundance of each one of them certainly. [Now] concerning the Triple-Powered Invisible Spirit One, hear!
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The Triple Powered One
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He [exists] as an invisible One, unattainable for them all. He contains them all within [himself], for [they] all exist because [of] [him]. He is perfect and [greater] than perfect. And he is blessed, since he [is] always one. And [he] exists [in] them all, being ineffable, unnamable, being [one] who exists through them all
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--he whom, [should] one intelligize him, one [would not desire] anything that [exists] before him among those [that possess] existence--
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for [he] is the [source] [from which they were all emitted].
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[He is prior to Perfection]; [he was prior] [to every] Divinity, [and] he is prior [to] every Blessedness, since he provides for every power.
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And he is an insubstantial substance, a God over whom there is no Divinity, the surpasser of his own greatness and <beauty>. [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [power.