All are under sin in the
world. JESUS came to save and bring the mysteries to the world. We need the
gift of the mysteries.
No soul had entered the light before our Lord Jesus’ coming,
With His coming, He opened the gates of the Light and opened the ways which lead
to the Light. “ therefore, let him who shall do what is worthy of the
mysteries, receive the mysteries and enter into the Light."
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When then Jesus had said this, Mary answered and said:
"My Lord, if men go to seek and they come upon the doctrines of error, I
whence then are they to know whether they belong to thee or not?"
The Saviour answered and said unto Mary: "I have
said unto you aforetime: 'Be ye as skilful money-changers. Take the good, throw
the bad away.'
The criterion of orthodoxy."Now, therefore, say unto all men who would seek
the godhead: 'If north wind cometh, then ye know that there will be cold; if
south wind cometh, then ye know that there will be burning and fervent heat.'
Now, therefore, say unto them: 'If ye have known the face of the heaven and of
the earth from the winds, then know ye exactly, if then any come now unto you
and proclaim unto you a godhead, whether their words have harmonized and fitted
with all your words which I have spoken unto you through two up to three
witnesses, and whether they have harmonized in the setting of the air and of
the heavens and of the circuits and of the stars and of the light-givers and of
the whole earth and all on it and of all waters and all in them.' Say unto
them: 'Those who shall come unto you, and their words fit and harmonize in the
whole gnosis with that which I have said unto you, I will receive as belonging
unto us.' This is what ye shall say unto men, if ye make proclamation unto them
in order that they may guard themselves from the doctrines of error
The Books of Yew."Now, therefore, for the sake of sinners have I
rent myself asunder and am come into the world, that I may save them. For even
for the righteous, who have never done any evil and have not sinned at all, it is
necessary that they should find the mysteries which are in the Books of Yew,
which I have made Enoch write in Paradise,
discoursing with him out of the tree of the Gnosis and out of the tree of the
Life. And I made him deposit them in the rock Ararad, and set the ruler
Kalapataurōth, who is over Skemmūt, on whose head is the foot of Yew, and who
surroundeth all æons and Fates,--I set up that ruler as watcher over the Books
of Yew on account of the flood, and in order that none of the rulers may be
envious of them and destroy them. These will I give you, when I shall have told
you the expansion of the universe."
When then the Saviour had said this, Mary answered and
said: "My Lord, who now then is the man in the world who hath not sinned
at all, who is pure of iniquities? For if he is pure of one, he will not be
able to be pure of another, so that he may find the mysteries which are in the
Books of Yew? For I say: A man in this world will not be able to be pure of
sins; for if he is pure of one, he will not be able to be pure of
another."
Few only will accomplish the mystery of
the First Mystery.The Saviour answered
and said unto Mary: "I say unto you: They will find one in a thousand and
two in ten-thousand for the accomplishment of the mystery of the First Mystery.
This will I tell unto you when I have explained to you the expansion of the
universe. For this cause, therefore, I have rent myself asunder and have
brought the mysteries into the world, because all are under sin and all are in
need of the gift of the mysteries."
Mary answered and said unto the Saviour: "My
Lord, before thou didst come to the region of the rulers and before thou didst
come down into the world, hath no soul entered into the Light?"
No soul had entered into the Light before
the coming of the First Mystery.The
Saviour answered and said unto Mary: "Amēn, amēn, I say unto you Before I
did come into the world, no soul hath entered into the Light. And now,
therefore, when I am come, I have opened the gates of the Light and opened the
ways which lead to the Light. And now, therefore, let him who shall do what is
worthy of the mysteries, receive the mysteries and enter into the Light."
Mary continued and said: "But, my Lord, I have
heard that the prophets have entered into the Light."
Of the prophets.The Saviour continued and said unto Mary: "Amēn,
amēn, I say unto you: No prophet hath entered into the Light; but the rulers of
the æons have discoursed with them out of the æons and given them the mystery
of the æons. And when I came to the regions of the æons, I have turned Elias
and sent him into the body of John the Baptizer, and the rest also I turned
into righteous bodies, which will find the mysteries of the Light, go on high
and inherit the Light-kingdom.
Of the patriarchs."Unto Abraham on the other hand and Isaac and
Jacob I have forgiven all their sins and their iniquities and have given them
the mysteries of the Light in the æons and placed them in the region of
Yabraōth and of all the rulers who have repented. And when I go into the Height
and am on the point of going into the Light, I will carry their souls with me
into the Light. But, amēn, I say unto you, Mary: They will not go into the
Light before I have carried thy soul and those of all thy brethren into the
Light.
Of the souls of the righteous from Adam to
Jesus."The rest of the patriarchs
and of the righteous from the time of Adam unto now, who are in the æons and
all the orders of the rulers, when I came to the region of the æons, I have
through the Virgin of Light made to turn into bodies which will all be righteous,--those
which will find the mysteries of the Light, enter in and inherit the
Light-kingdom."
Mary answered and said: "Blessed are we before
all men because of these splendours which thou hast revealed unto us."
The Saviour
answered and said unto Mary and all the disciples: "I will still reveal
unto you all the splendours of the Height, from the interiors of the interiors
to the exteriors of the exteriors, that
ye may be perfected in all gnosis and in all fullness and in the height of the
heights and the depths of the depths."
