(9) He answered, He that made me whole, the same said unto me, Take up thy bed, and walk.

[...] [and he said to me: "Write down] [the things] that I shall [tell] you and of which I shall remind you for those who will be worthy after you. And you shall leave this book upon a mountain and you shall adjure the guardian: `Come, Dreadful One!'" And when he said these things, he separated from me.

(4) He saith, as he invoketh his Lord, the Eternal one:—

(32) He impoverishes himself, in order that he may never overlook a brother who has been brought into affliction, through the perfection that is in love, especially if he know that he will bear want himself easier than his brother. He considers, accordingly, the other's pain his own grief; and if, by contributing from his own indigence in order to do good, he suffer any hardship, he does not fret at this, but augments his beneficence still more. For he possesses in its sincerity the faith which is exercised in reference to the affairs of life, and praises the Gospel in practice and contemplation. And, in truth, he wins his praise "not from men, but from God," by the performance of what the Lord has taught.

(25) " Blessed art thou, Lord of righteousness and God of the ages ; And may He bless thee beyond all the generations of men. May He give thee, my son, the path of righteous- ness, And reveal righteousness to thy seed.

(27) When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things. And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

(31) "All who come into the world, like a drop from the Light, are sent by him to the world of Almighty, that they might be guarded by him. And the bond of his forgetfulness bound him by the will of Sophia, that the matter might be through it to the whole world in poverty, concerning his (Almighty's) arrogance and blindness and the ignorance that he was named. But I came from the places above by the will of the great Light, (I) who escaped from that bond; I have cut off the work of the robbers; I have awakened that drop that was sent from Sophia, that it might bear much fruit through me, and be perfected and not again be defective, but be through me, the Great Savior, that his glory might be revealed, so that Sophia might also be justified in regard to that defect, that her sons might not again become defective but might attain honor and glory and go up to their Father, and know the words of the masculine Light. And you were sent by the Son, who was sent that you might receive Light, and remove yourselves from the forgetfulness of the authorities, and that it might not again come to appearance because of you, namely, the unclean rubbing that is from the fearful fire that came from their fleshly part. Tread upon their malicious intent."

(37) And he closed the gates of the tower ; and he stood on the battle- ments and spake to his brother Esau and said, " Noble is the comfort wherewith thou hast come to comfort me for my wife who hath died. Is this the oath that thou didst swear to thy father and again to thy mother before they died? Thou hast broken the oath, and on the moment that thou didst swear to thy father wast thou condemned."

(4) and himself are equally the children of God. Shall then such a one trouble whether man visits him with evil or with good? Man indeed regards him as a child; and this is to be a servant of God. "He who is outwardly crooked is a servant of man. He bows, he kneels, he folds his hands;—such is the ceremonial of a minister. What all men do, shall I dare not to do? What all men do, none will blame me for doing. This is to be a servant of man. "He who is completed after the models of antiquity is a servant of the Sages of old. Although I utter the words of warning and take him to task, it is the Sages of old who speak, and not I. Thus my uprightness will not bring me into trouble, the servant of the Sages of old.—Will this do?"

(32) Give ear to me who pray that I may ne'er of Gnosis fail, [Gnosis] which is our common being's nature; and fill me with Thy Power, and with this Grace [of Thine], that I may give the Light to those in ignorance of the Race, my Brethren, and Thy Sons. For this cause I believe, and I bear witness; I go to Life and Light. Blessed art Thou, O Father. Thy Man would holy be as Thou art holy, e'en as Thou gave him Thy full authority [to be].

(5) There are generations in the world, there are country people, whose faces we do not see, who have no homes, they only wander through the small and large woodlands, like crazy people. So it is said scornfully of the people of the wood. So they said there, where they saw the rising of the sun. The speech of all was the same. They did not invoke wood nor stone, and they remembered the word of the Creator and the Maker, the Heart of Heaven, the Heart of Earth. in this manner they spoke, while they thought about the coming of the dawn. And they raised their prayers, those worshipers of the word [of God], loving, obedient. and fearful, raising their faces to the sky when they asked for daughters and sons:

(1) AND on the same manner, where another man would bid thee gather thy powers and thy wits wholly within thyself, and worship God there—although he say full well and full truly, yea! and no man trulier, an he be well conceived—yet for fear of deceit and bodily conceiving of his words, me list not bid thee do so. But thus will I bid thee. Look on nowise that thou be within thyself. And shortly, without thyself will I not that thou be, nor yet above, nor behind, nor on one side, nor on other.

(16) And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

(15) The man answered, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.

(4) We then, having collected these intelligible Divine Names, have unfolded them to the best of our ability, falling short not only of the precision which belongs to them, (for this truly, even Angels might say) nor only of their praises as sung by Angels (and the chief of our Theologians come behind the lowest of them), nor indeed of the Theologians themselves, nor of their followers or companions, but even of those who are of the same rank as ourselves, last and subordinate to them; so that, if the things spoken should be correct, and, if we, as far as in us lies, have really reached the perception of the unfolding of the Divine Names, let the fact be ascribed to the Author of all good things, Who, Himself, bestows first the power to speak, then to speak well. And if any one of the Names of the same force has been passed over, that also you must understand according to the same methods. But, if these things are either incorrect or imperfect, and we have wandered from the truth, either wholly or partially, may it be of thy brotherly kindness to correct him, who unwillingly is ignorant, and to impart a word to him, who wishes to learn, and to vouchsafe assistance to him, who has not power in himself; and to heal him, who, not willingly, is sick; and having found out some things from thyself, and others from others, and receiving all from the good to transfer them also to us. By no means grow weary in doing good to a man thy friend, for thou perceivest, that we also have kept to ourselves none of the hierarchical communications transmitted to us, but have transmitted them without flaw, both to you and to other holy men, yea, and will continue to transmit them, as we may be sufficient to speak, and those to whom we speak, to hear, doing injury in no respect to the tradition, if at least we do not fail in the conception and expression thereof. But, let these things be held and spoken in such way, as is well pleasing to Almighty God; and let this indeed be our conclusion to the intelligible Divine Names. But I will now pass to the Symbolic Theology, with God for my Guide. 27 October, 1896.

(3) "'1. I will give thanks unto thee, O Lord, for thou art my God. "'2. Abandon me not, O Lord, for thou art! my hope. "'3. Thou hast given me thy vindication for naught, and I am saved through thee. "'4. Let them who pursue me, fall down and let them not see me. "'5. May a smoke-cloud cover their eyes and an air-mist darken them, and let them not see the day, so that they may not seize me. "'6. May their resolution be impotent, and may what they concoct come upon them. "'7. They have devised a resolution, and it hath not taken effect for them. "'8. And they are vanquished, although they be mighty, and what they have wickedly pre-pared is fallen upon them. "'9. My hope is in the Lord, and I shall not be afraid, for thou art my God, my Saviour.'" It came to pass then, when Salome had finished saying these words, that Jesus said unto her: "Well said, Salome; and finely. This is the solution of the words which Pistis Sophia hath uttered."

(48) "Behold, I have revealed to you the name of the Perfect One, the whole will of the Mother of the Holy Angels, that the masculine multitude may be completed here, that there might appear in the aeons, the infinities and those that came to be in the untraceable wealth of the Great Invisible Spirit, that they all might take from his goodness, even the wealth of their rest that has no kingdom over it. I came from First Who Was Sent, that I might reveal to you Him Who Is from the Beginning, because of the arrogance of Arch-Begetter and his angels, since they say about themselves that they are gods. And I came to remove them from their blindness, that I might tell everyone about the God who is above the universe. Therefore, tread upon their graves, humiliate their malicious intent, and break their yoke and arouse my own. I have given you authority over all things as Sons of Light, that you might tread upon their power with your feet."

(8) And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.

(17) Here will the Prince and Arch-Shepherd pronounce his Sentence, saying to the kGodly;i Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom that has been prepared for you from the Beginning; I have been hungry, thirsty, naked, sick, in Prison and Misery, and you have fed me, given me Drink, clothed me, comforted me, and visited me, and have come and helped me in my Misery, therefore enter into eternal Joys. And they will answer, Lord, when have we seen thee hungry, thirsty, naked, in Prison, or in Misery, and have served thee? And he will say, What you have done to the least of these my Brethren, you have done that to me. And to the Wicked he will say, Away from me, ye Cursed, into the eternal Fire; for I have been hungry, thirsty, naked, in Prison, and in Misery, and you have never ministered unto me. And they will answer, Lord, when have we seen thee so, and not ministered to thee? And he will say, What you have not done to the least of these my poor Brethren, that you have not done to me; and they must depart from him.

(691) 2120a (Nt. XXXII 819). To say: O my father, O R`, concerning these things which thou hast said: 2120b (Nt. 819). "O that I had a son who is glorified, who dawns, who is a soul, is honoured, is mighty, 2120c (Nt. 820). whose arm is stretched out, whose stride is wide." 2121a (Nt. 820). Behold me, I am thy son, behold I am N.; 2121b (Nt. 820-821). I am glorified, I dawn (or, am crowned), I am a soul, I am honoured, I am mighty; 2121c (Nt. 821). mine arm is stretched out, my stride is wide. 2122 O N., he is purified; 2122b (Nt. 821-822). I take the rudder, I am glad of my seat on the shoulder of the sky; 2122 N. voyages on the shoulder of the sky; 2122 N. directs his rudder on the shoulder of the sky. 2123 O my father, O R`, concerning these things which thou hast said: 2123 "O that I had a son who is glorified, who dawns, who is a soul, is honoured, is mighty, 2123 whose arm is stretched out, whose stride is wide." 2124 Behold me, I am thy son, behold I am N. 2124 I am glorified, I dawn (or, am crowned), I am a soul, I am honoured, I am mighty; 2125 I am purified; 2125b (Nt. 825). I take my rudder, I am glad of my seat in company with the Ennead; 2125c (Nt. 826). I voyage with the Ennead; 2125d (Nt. 826). I direct my rudder in company with the Ennead. Utterance 691 A. 2126a-1 (Nt. J�quier, XXXII 826). To say: The two reed-floats of heaven are placed for R`; 2126a-2 (Nt. 826-827). the two reed-floats of heaven are placed for R`, 212 6a-3 (Nt. 827). that he may be high from east to west at the side of his brothers, the gods. 212 6a-4 (Nt. 827-828). His, brother is , his sister is Sothis; 2126a-5 (Nt. 828). he is seated between them above (lit. in) this earth for ever. 212 6a-6 (Nt. 828). The two reed-floats of heaven are placed for this N.; 2126a (Nt. 828-829). the two reed-floats of heaven are placed for this N.; 212 6b (Nt. 829). that she (lit. he) may be high from east to west at the side of her (lit. his) brothers, the gods. 2126b + 1 (Nt. 829). Her (lit. his) brother is her (lit. his) sister is Sothis; 212 6b + 2 (Nt. 830). she (lit. he) is seated between them above (lit. in) this earth for ever. Utterance 691 B. 2127a-1 (Nt. J�quier, XXXII 830). Awake, awake, father Osiris, 2127a-2 (Nt. 83 0). I am thy son, who loves thee, I am thy son, who loves thee. 2127a (Nt. 831). Behold me, enter, I am come, I have brought to thee that which he carried off belonging to thee. 2127b (Nt. SP). He rejoiced over thee; he exulted (?) over thee. 2127b + 1 (Nt. 832). Set exulted over thee, at the side of thy two mourning sisters, 2127b + 2 (Nt. 83 2 ). the two sisters who love thee, Isis and Nephthys; they are pleasing to thee. 2127b + 3 (Nt. 883). Thou shalt not pass me by, for I am entrusting myself to thee; 2127b + 4 (Nt. 833). thou shalt not pass by the bread of judgment; thou shalt be satisfied with r-'imi-pr.f. 2128a-1 (Nt. 833-834). I have rowed (thee) as Set, like Geb; 212 8a, (Nt. 834). like the remains (of a corpse) (in) jars of viscera; 2128b (Nt. 834). thy forepart being like that of a jackal, thy hinderpart like b.wt. 2128b + 1 (Nt. 834). It is clear that thou receivest a man of god. 212 8b + 2 (Nt. 83 5). 1 have ploughed barley; I have reaped the spelt, 2128b + 3 (Nt. 835). which I have done (given) for thy years (festivals?). 212 8b + 4 (Nt. 83 5). Awake, awake, father, for this thy bread. Utterance 691 C. 2129-1 (N. J�quier, XI 1011) -------- N. he 2129-2 (N. 1011) -------------- `m --- --2129 (N. 1011-1012) ------ the might of N. ----------------2129 + 1 (N. 1012) ----------- they see (?) ------2129 + 2 (N. 1012) ----------------------------------2129 + 3 (N. 1012). the throne of N. m ----2129 + 4 (N. 1012). --- this N. on the head of R` dm ----2129 + 5 (N. 1012) ------- m (?) --------2130 (N. 1012-1013) ------- in heaven strong --------------2130+ 1 (N. 1013) --------------- m(?) 2130 + 2 (N. 1013). N --------------------------------2130 + 3 (N. 1013). he smote (?) with the `b-sceptre; he led with the 'i.t-sceptre 2130+4 (N. 1013). this N -------- with (?) a voice 2130+ 5 (N. 1013). not -------2131 (N. 1013-1014). ----------- his? names 2131 + 1 (N. 1014). ---------------------------------2131 + 2 (N. 1014). ----------- rw ------------------2131 + 3 (N. 1014). ----------------- with braids of hair 2131 +4 (N. 1014). ------------2131 + 5 (N. 1014). praise was given, rejoicing -----2132 (N. 1014-1015). ------------- Geb ------------2132 + 1 (N. J�quier, XI 1015). ------------2132 + 2 (N. 1015). --------- his two arms guarded before N. 2132 + 3 (N. 1015). ---------------------------------2132 + 4 (N. 1015). --------------------------- r 2132 + 5 (N. 1015). N. shines -------------------------2133 (N. 1015-1016). --------------------------------2133 + 1 (N. 1016). ----------2133 + 2 (N. 1016). N. purified --------------- 'in -2133 + 3 (N. 1016). comes as his soul 'inw ------------2133 + 4 (N. 1016) ------ N., he withdraws by it 2134 (N. 1016). the hand of N. took ----------------2135 (N. 1016 + 1). ------------2136 (N. 1016 + 1). ------- N. the northern way of the boat of the morning sun --2136 + 1 (N. 1016 + 1). Harachte commanded thee, N -------- pw.t ntr 2136 + 2 (N. 1016 + 1). Khepri --- gods, clothes laid aside 2136+ 3 (N. 1016 + 2). ------------2136+4 (N. 1016 + 2) ------------- lake of the jackals 2136 + 5 (N. J�quier, XI 1016 + 2). N. sat ------------[Dw]-mw.tf. 2136+ 6 (N. 1016 + 2). Dw-mw.tf -----------------