Not only did the Son exist from the beginning, but the Church, too, existed from the beginning. Now, he who thinks that the discovery that the Son is an only son opposes the statement (about the Church) because of the mysterious quality of the matter, it is not so. For just as the Father is a unity, and has revealed himself as Father for him alone, so too the Son was found to be a brother to himself alone, in virtue of the fact that he is unbegotten and without beginning. He wonders at himself, along with the Father, and he gives him(self) glory and honor and love. Furthermore, he too is the one whom he conceives of as Son, in accordance with the dispositions: "without beginning" and "without end." Thus is the matter something which is fixed. Being innumerable and illimitable, his offspring are indivisible. Those which exist have come forth from the Son and the Father like kisses, because of the multitude of some who kiss one another with a good, insatiable thought, the kiss being a unity, although it involves many kisses. This is to say, it is the Church consisting of many men that existed before the aeons, which is called, in the proper sense, "the aeons of the aeons." This is the nature of the holy imperishable spirits, upon which the Son rests, since it is his essence, just as the Father rests upon the Son.

Now as the body generateth the soul, so the seven spirits of God generate the Son; and as the soul is a peculiar distinct thing when it is generated,...

"And afterward was revealed a whole multitude of confronting, self-begotten ones, equal in age and power, being in glory (and) without number, whose...

Thus the Father is the self-subsisting being of all powers, and the Son is the Heart in the Father, which is generated continually out of all the...

The Son is in the Father, being the Father's Heart or light, and the Father generateth the Son continually, from eternity to eternity; and the Son's...

So the Son of God is continually generated from all the powers of his Father from eternity, and is not made, but is the heart and lustre shining forth...

Thus you have the right ground of this Mystery, and you ought not to think that the Son of God was generated of the Father at once, at a certain...

Consider these things about God Almighty, who always exists: this One was not always King, for fear that he might be without a divine Son. For all...

For if it were so, then must the Son of God have a beginning, and the Father must have generated him in time, and then he could not be the eternal, al...

Now if a man should say the Son of God were an image, circumscriptive or measurable like the sun, then the three Persons would be only in that place...

The Soul of Man, which God has breathed into him, is out of the Eternal Father; yet understand it right; there is a Difference [to be observed, you...

Observe here the great Mystery of God.

The Son is also another Person than the Father, but not externally, without or severed from the Father, nor is he any other God than the Father is;...

"For the dead bury their dead." Whence Jeremiah says: "I will fill it with the earth-born dead whom mine anger has smitten." God, then, being not a...

But the Son is generated continually from eternity unto eternity, and shineth continually from eternity into the powers of the Father again, whereby t...

Afterward he revealed many confronting, self-begotten ones, equal in age (and) power, being in glory and without number, who are called 'The...

Neither should you think that the Son is without or apart from the Father, and that he is a severed part or divided piece, as when two men stand the o...

But it is therefore called the Son, in that it is generated out of the Father, so that it is the Heart of the Father in his powers.

And this birth or geniture now is called GOD the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: Not one of them is the first, and not one of them is the last: though I ...

Through Immortal Man appeared the first designation, namely, divinity and kingdom, for the Father, who is called 'Self-Father Man' revealed this. He...

And if now the second Principle did not break forth and spring up in the Birth of the Son, then the Father would be a dark Valley. And thus you see, t...