TRIMORPHIC PROTENNOIA
('The Three-formed [Divine] First Thought')
THE NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY
(XIII 35, 1 -50, 24)

35 ¹ [I] am [Protennoia, the] Thought that ² [dwells] in [the Light.
I] am the movement ³ that dwells in the [All,
        she in whom the] All takes its ⁴ stand,
        [the first]-born ⁵ among those who [came to be,
        she who exists] before ⁶ the All.

[She (Protennoia) is called] by three names, although she ⁷ dwells alone, [since she is perfect].

I am ⁸ invisible within the Thought of the Invisible ⁹ One.
I am revealed in the immeasurable ¹⁰ ineffable (things).
I am incomprehensible, ¹¹ dwelling in the incomprehensible.
I ¹² move in every creature.

I am the life ¹³ of my] Epinoia that dwells within ¹⁴
        every Power and
        every eternal movement ¹⁵ and (in)
        invisible Lights and ¹⁶ within
        the Archons and Angels and ¹⁷ Demons and
        every soul dwelling ¹⁸ in [Tartaros] and (in)
        every material soul. ¹⁹

I dwell in those who came to be.
I move in ²⁰ everyone and
I delve into them all. ²¹
I walk uprightly, and those who ²² sleep I [awaken].
And I ²³ am the sight of those who dwell in sleep. ²⁴
I am the Invisible One within the All. ²⁵
It is I who counsel those who are hidden, since I know ²⁶ the All that exists in it. ²⁷
I am numberless beyond everyone.
I ²⁸ am immeasurable, ineffable, yet ²⁹ whenever I [wish,
        I shall] reveal myself ³⁰ of my own accord.
I [am the head of] the All.
I exist ³¹ before the All, and] I am the All, ³² since I exist in] everyone.

I am a Voice ³³ [speaking softly].
I exist ³⁴ [from the first. I dwell] within the Silence ³⁵ [that surrounds every one] of them.

36 ¹ And [it is] the [hidden Voice] that [dwells within] ² me,
        [within the] incomprehensible, ³ immeasurable [Thought,
        within the] immeasurable Silence. ⁴

I [descended to the] midst of the underworld ⁵ and
I shone [down upon the] darkness.
It is I who ⁶ poured forth the [water].
It is I who am hidden within ⁷ [radiant] waters.
I am the one who ⁸ gradually put forth the All by my ⁹ Thought.
It is I who am laden with the Voice.
It ¹⁰ is through me that Gnosis comes forth.
[I] ¹¹ dwell in the ineffable and ¹² unknowable ones.
I am perception and knowledge, ¹³ uttering a Voice by means of ¹⁴ thought.
[I] am the real Voice. ¹⁵
I cry out in everyone, and they recognize ¹⁶ it (the voice], since a seed indwells [them] . ¹⁷
I am the Thought of the Father and
        through ¹⁸ me proceeded [the] Voice, ¹⁹
        that is, the knowledge of the everlasting things.
I ²⁰ exist as Thought for the [All] -
        being joined ²¹ to the unknowable and incomprehensible Thought - ²²
I revealed myself - yes, I - among ²³ all those who recognize me.
For it is I ²⁴ who am joined with everyone
        by virtue of ²⁵ the hidden Thought and
        an exalted <Voice>, ²⁶ even a Voice from ²⁷ the invisible Thought.
        And it is immeasurable ²⁸ since it dwells in the Immeasurable One.
        It is a mystery; ²⁹ it is [unrestrainable] ³⁰ by [the Incomprehensible One].
        It is invisible ³¹ [to all those who are] visible ³² in the All.
        It is a Light] dwelling in ³³ Light.

It is we [also who] alone [have separated] ³⁴ [from the] visible [world] ³⁵ since we [are saved by the] ³⁶ hidden [wisdom by means of the] 37 ¹ ineffable, immeasurable [Voice]. And he who is ² hidden within us pays the tributes of his fruit ³ to the Water of Life.

Then ⁴ the Son who is perfect in every respect - that is, ⁵ the Word who originated through that ⁶ Voice; who proceeded from the height; who ⁷ has within him the Name; who is ⁸ a Light - he (the Son) revealed the everlasting things and ⁹ all the unknowns were known. ¹⁰ And those things difficult to interpret ¹¹ and secret, he revealed, and ¹² as for those who dwell in Silence with the First ¹³ Thought, he preached to them. And ¹⁴ he revealed himself to those who dwell in darkness, and ¹⁵ he showed himself to those who dwell in the abyss, ¹⁶ and to those who dwell in the hidden treasuries he told ¹⁷ ineffable mysteries, ¹⁸ and he taught unrepeatable doctrines ¹⁹ to all those who became Sons of ²⁰ the Light .

Now the Voice that originated ²¹ from my Thought exists as three ²² permanences: the Father, the Mother, the Son. Existing ²³ perceptibly as Speech, it (Voice) has ²⁴ within it a Word endowed with ²⁵ every <glory>, and it has ²⁶ three masculinities, three powers, ²⁷ and three names. They exist in the ²⁸ manner of Three ¨ ¨ ¨ - which are quadrangles - ²⁹ secretly within a silence ³⁰ Of the Ineffable One.

[It is he] alone who came to be, ³¹ that [is, the Christ. And] as for me I anointed him ³² as the glory [of the] Invisible [Spirit] with ³³ [goodness]. Now [the Three] I established ³⁴ [alone in] eternal [glory] over ³⁵ [the Aeons in the] Living [Water], that ³⁶ [is, the glory that surrounds him] 38 ¹ who first came forth to the Light ² of those exalted Aeons, and it is in glorious ³ Light that he firmly perseveres. And [he] ⁴ stood in his own Light ⁵ that surrounds him, that is, the Eye of the Light ⁶ that gloriously shines on me. ⁷ He perpetuated the Father of all (the) Aeons, who am I, ⁸ the Thought of the Father, Protennoia, ⁹ that is, Barbelo, the [perfect] Glory ¹⁰ and the [immeasurable] Invisible One who is hidden. ¹¹

I am the image of the Invisible Spirit ¹² and it is through me that the All took shape, ¹³ and
(I am) the Mother (as well as) the Light which she appointed ¹⁴ as Virgin, she who is
called ¹⁵ Meirothea, the incomprehensible Womb, the ¹⁶ unrestrainable and immeasurable Voice.

Then ¹⁷ the Perfect Son revealed himself to his ¹⁸ Aeons who originated through him, ¹⁹ and he revealed them and glorified them and ²⁰ gave them thrones and stood in ²¹ the glory with which he glorified himself. ²² They blessed the Perfect Son, the Christ, the ²³ only-begotten God.
And they gave glory, ²⁴ saying, "He is! He is! The Son ²⁵ Of God! The Son of God! It is he who ²⁶ is! The Aeon of Aeons beholding the ²⁷ Aeons which he begot! For thou hast ²⁸ begotten by thine own desire! Therefore [we] ²⁹ glorify thee: MA MO O O O EIA EI ON EI! The [Aeon] ³⁰ Of [Aeons! The] Aeon which he gave!"
Then, ³¹ moreover, the [God who was begotten] gave them (the Aeons) ³² a power of [life on which they might rely] and [he] ³³ established [them.

The] first ³⁴ Aeon, he established [over the first]: Armedon, ³⁵ Nousa[nios, Armozel;
the] second ³⁶ he established [over the second Aeon]: 39 ¹ Phaionios, Ainios, Oroiael;
the third ² over the third Aeon: Mellephaneus, ³ Loios, Daveithai;
the fourth ⁴ over the fourth: Mousanios, Amethes, ⁵ Eleleth.

Now those Aeons were begotten ⁶ by the God who was begotten - the ⁷ Christ - and these Aeons received ⁸ as well as gave glory. They were the first to appear, ⁹ exalted in their thought, and each ¹⁰ Aeon gave myriads of glories within ¹¹ great untraceable lights and ¹² they all together blessed the Perfect ¹³ Son, the God who was begotten.

Then there ¹⁴ came forth a word from the great ¹⁵ Light Eleleth and said, "I ¹⁶ am King! Who belongs to Chaos and who ¹⁷ belongs to the underworld?" And at that instant his Light ¹⁸ appeared radiant, endowed ¹⁹ with the Epinoia. The Powers of the Powers ²⁰ did not entreat him and likewise immediately ²¹ there appeared the great Demon ²² who rules over the lowest part of the underworld ²³ and Chaos. He has neither form ²⁴ nor perfection, but on the contrary possesses ²⁵ the form of the glory of those ²⁶ begotten in the darkness. Now he is called ²⁷ "Saklas," that is, "Samael," "Yaltabaoth," ²⁸ he who had taken power, who had snatched ²⁹ it away from the innocent one (Sophia); who had earlier overpowered ³⁰ her who is the Light's Epinoia (Sophia) ³¹ who had descended, her from whom he (Yaltabaoth) had come forth ³² originally.

Now when the Epinoia of the [Light] realized ³³ that [he (Yaltbabaoth)] had begged him (the Light), ³⁴ for another [order, even though he was lower] than she, she said, ³⁵ "Grant me another order so that you may become for me ³⁶ [a dwelling place lest I dwell] in disorder ³⁷ [forever." And the order of the] entire house of 40 ¹ glory [was agreed upon her ² word. A blessing was brought for ³ her and the higher order released it ⁴ to her.

And the great Demon ⁵ began to produce ⁶ aeons in the likeness of the real Aeons, ⁷ except that he produced them out of his own power. ⁸

Then I too revealed ⁹ my Voice secretly, ¹⁰ saying, 'Cease ! Desist, ¹¹ (you) who tread on matter; for behold ¹² I am coming down to the world ¹³ of mortals for the sake of my portion that was in ¹⁴ that place from the time when ¹⁵ the innocent Sophia was conquered, she who ¹⁶ descended so that I might thwart ¹⁷ their aim which the one revealed ¹⁸ by her appoints." ¹⁹

And all were disturbed, ²⁰ each one who dwells ²¹ in the house of the ignorant light ²² and the abyss trembled. And ²³ the Archigenetor of ignorance ²⁴ reigned over Chaos and the underworld and ²⁵ produced a man in my likeness. But he neither ²⁶ knew that that one would become ²⁷ for him a sentence of dissolution nor ²⁸ does he recognize the power in ²⁹ him.

But now I have come down ³⁰ and reached down to Chaos. And ³¹ I was [with] my own who ³² were in that place. [I am hidden] within ³³ them, empowering [them and] giving ³⁴ them shape. And [from the first day] until ³⁵ the day [when I will grant mighty power] ³⁶ to those who [are mine, I will reveal myself to] ³⁷ those who have [heard my mysteries], 41 ¹ that is, the [Sons] of [the] Light.

I ² am their Father and I shall tell you a ³ mystery, ineffable and indivulgeable ⁴ by [any] mouth: Every bond ⁵ I loosed from you, and
the ⁶ chains of the Demons of the underworld, I broke, ⁷
        these things which are bound on my members, restraining them. And ⁸
the high walls of darkness I overthrew, ⁹ and
the secure gates of ¹⁰ those pitiless ones I broke, and
I smashed ¹¹ their bars.
And the evil Force and ¹² the one who beats you, and
the one who hinders ¹³ you, and
the Tyrant, and
the Adversary, ¹⁴ and
the one who is King, and
the present Enemy, ¹⁵
indeed all these I explained to those ¹⁶ who are mine, who are the Sons of the light, ¹⁷ in order that they might nullify them all ¹⁸ and be saved from all those bonds ¹⁹ and enter into the place where they were at ²⁰ first.

I am the first one who descended ²¹ on account of my portion which remains, that is, ²² the Spirit that (now) dwells in the soul, (but) which originated ²³ from the Water of Life and out ²⁴ of the immersion of the mysteries, and I spoke, ²⁵ I together with the Archons and Authorities. ²⁶ For I had gone down below their ²⁷ language and I spoke my mysteries to ²⁸ my own - a hidden mystery - and ²⁹ the bonds and eternal oblivion were nullified. ³⁰ And I bore fruit in them, that ³¹ is, the Thought of the unchanging Aeon, and ³² my house, and their [Father]. And I went ³³ down [to those who were mine] from the first and ³⁴ I [reached them and broke] the first strands ³⁵ that [enslaved them. Then ³⁶ everyone [of those] within me shone, and 42 ¹ I prepared [a pattern] for those ineffable Lights that are ² within me. Amen. ³

I am the Voice that appeared through ⁵ my Thought, for I am "He who is syzygetic," ⁶ since I am called "the Thought of the Invisible One." ⁷ Since I am called "the unchanging Speech," ⁸ I am called "She who is syzygetic."

I am a single ⁹ one (fem.) since I am undefiled.
I am the Mother [of] ¹⁰ the Voice, speaking in many ways, completing ¹¹ the All.
It is in me that knowledge dwells, ¹² the knowledge of (things) everlasting.
It is I [who] ¹³ speak within every creature and I was known ¹⁴ by the All.
It is I who lift up ¹⁵ the Speech of the Voice to the ears of those who ¹⁶ have known me, that is, the Sons of the Light. ¹⁷

Now I have come the second time in the likeness ¹⁸ of a female and have spoken with them. And ¹⁹ I shall tell them of the coming end of the Aeon ²⁰ and teach them of the beginning of the Aeon ²¹ to come, the one without change, ²² the one in which our appearance will be changed. ²³ We shall be purified within those Aeons from which I ²⁴ revealed myself in the Thought ²⁵ of the likeness of my masculinity. I settled ²⁶ among those who are worthy in the Thought of my ²⁷ changeless Aeon.

For I shall tell you a ²⁸ mystery [of] this particular Aeon and ²⁹ tell you about the forces that are in it. ³⁰ The birth beckons: [hour] begets ³¹ hour, [day begets day]. The months ³² made known the [month. Time] has [gone round] ³³ succeeding [time]. This particular Age 43 ¹ was completed in [this] fashion, and it was estimated, and ² it (was) short, for it was a finger that released a ³ finger and a joint that was separated from ⁴ a joint.

Then when the great Authorities knew ⁵ that the time of fulfillment had appeared - ⁶ just as in the pangs of the parturient it (the time) had drawn near, ⁷ so also had ⁸ the destruction approached - all together the elements ⁹ trembled, and the foundations of the underworld and the ceilings ¹⁰ of Chaos shook and a great fire shone ¹¹ within their midst, and the rocks and the earth ¹² were shaken like a reed shaken by the wind. ¹³ And the lots of Fate and those who apportion ¹⁴ the domiciles were greatly disturbed over ¹⁵ a great thunder. And the thrones of ¹⁶ the Powers were disturbed since they were overturned, and their ¹⁷ King was afraid.

And those who pursue Fate ¹⁸ paid their allotment of visits to the path, and ¹⁹ they said to the Powers, "What is this disturbance ²⁰ and this shaking that has come upon us through ²¹ a Voice (belonging) to the exalted Speech? ²² And our entire habitation has been shaken, and the entire ²³ circuit of our path of ascent has met with ²⁴ destruction, and the path upon which we go, ²⁵ which takes us up to the Archigenetor ²⁶ of our birth, has ceased to be established for us." ²⁷

Then the Powers answered, saying, ²⁸ "We too are at a loss about ²⁹ it since we did not know what was responsible for it. But ³⁰ arise, let us go up to the Archigenetor ³¹ and ask him."

And the ³² Powers all gathered and went up to the Archigenetor. ³³ [They said to] him, "Where is your boasting ³⁴ in which [you boast]? ³⁵ Did we not [hear you say], 'I ³⁶ am God [and I am] your Father 44 ¹ and it is I who [begot] you and there is no [other] ² beside me'? Now behold, there has appeared ³ [a] Voice belonging to that invisible Speech ⁴ of [the Aeon] (and) which we know not. And ⁵ we ourselves did not recognize to whom we ⁶ belong, for that Voice which we listened to ⁷ is foreign to us, and we do not recognize ⁸ it; we did not know whence it was. It came ⁹ and put fear in our midst and weakening ¹⁰ in the members of our arms. So now let ¹¹ us weep and mourn most bitterly! ¹² As for the future, let us make our entire flight ¹³ before we are imprisoned perforce and ¹⁴ taken down to the bosom of the underworld. For already ¹⁵ the slackening of our bondage has approached, ¹⁶ and the times are cut short and the days have shortened ¹⁷ and our time has been fulfilled, and the weeping ¹⁸ of our destruction has approached us so that ¹⁹ we may be taken to the place we recognize ²⁰ For as for our tree from which we grew, a fruit ²¹ of ignorance is what it has; and ²² also its leaves, it is death that dwells in them, ²³ and darkness dwells under the shadow of its ²⁴ boughs. And it was in deceit ²⁵ and lust that we harvested it, this (tree) through ²⁶ which ignorant Chaos became for us a dwelling place. ²⁷ For behold, even he, the Archigenetor ²⁸ of our birth, about whom we boast, ²⁹ even he did not know this Speech."

So now, ³⁰ O Sons of the Thought, listen to me, to the Speech ³¹ of the Mother of your mercy, for you have ³² become worthy of the mystery hidden from (the beginning of) ³³ the Aeons, so that [you might receive] it. And the consummation ³⁴ of this [particular] Aeon [and] of the evil life ³⁵ [has approached and there dawns 45 ¹ the] beginning of the Aeon to come] which [has ² no change forever].

I am androgynous. ³
[I am Mother (and) I am] Father since [I] ⁴ copulate] with myself.
I [copulate] with myself ⁵ [and with those who love] me, [and] ⁶
it is through me alone that the All [stands firm].
I am the Womb ⁷ [that gives shape] to the All
        by giving birth to the Light that ⁸ [shines in] splendor.
I am the Aeon to [come. ⁹
I am] the fulfillment of the All, that is, Me[iroth]ea, ¹⁰ the glory of the Mother.
I cast [voiced] Speech ¹¹ into the ears of those who know ¹² me.

And I am inviting you into the exalted, perfect Light. ¹³ Moreover, (as for) this (Light), when you enter ¹⁴ it,
you will be glorified by those [who] ¹⁵ give glory, and
those who enthrone will ¹⁶ enthrone you.
You will accept robes from ¹⁷ those who give robes and
the Baptists ¹⁸ will baptize you and
you will become ¹⁹ gloriously glorious, the way you first were ²⁰ when you were (Light). ²¹

And I hid myself in everyone and revealed [myself] ²² within them, and every mind seeking ²³ me longed for me, for it is I ²⁴ who gave shape to the All when it had no form. ²⁵ And I transformed their forms ²⁶ into (other) forms until the time when a form ²⁷ will be given to the All. It is through me that the Voice ²⁸ originated and it is I who put the breath ²⁹ within my own. And I cast into ³⁰ them the eternally holy Spirit and ³¹ I ascended and entered my Light. ³² [I went up] upon my branch and ³³ sat [there among the] Sons of the [holy] Light. ³⁴ And [I withdrew] to their dwelling place 46 ¹ [...] ² which [...] ³ become [glorious .... Amen]. ⁴

I am [the Word] who dwells [in the] ineffable [Voice]. ⁶
I dwell in undefiled [Light] ⁷ and

a Thought [revealed itself] ⁸ perceptibly through [the great] ⁹ Speech of the Mother, although it is a male offspring [that supports me] ¹⁰ as my foundation. And it (the Speech) exists from the beginning ¹¹ in the foundations of the All.

But there is a Light [that] ¹² dwells hidden in Silence and it was first to [come] ¹³ forth. Whereas she (the Mother) alone exists as Silence. ¹⁴ I alone am the Word, ineffable, ¹⁵ unpolluted, immeasurable, inconceivable. ¹⁶ It (the Word) is a hidden Light, bearing a Fruit of ¹⁷ Life, pouring forth a Living Water from ¹⁸ the invisible, unpolluted, immeasurable ¹⁹ Spring, that is, the unreproducible Voice of the glory ²⁰ of the Mother, the glory of the offspring ²¹ of God; a male Virgin by ²² virtue of a hidden Intellect, that is, ²³ the Silence hidden from the All, being unreproducible, ²⁴ an immeasurable Light, the source of the All ²⁵ the Root the entire Aeon.

It is the Foundation that supports ²⁶ every movement of the Aeons that ²⁷ belong to the mighty Glory.
It is the Foundation of every foundation. ²⁸
It is the Breath of the Powers.
It is the Eye of the ²⁹ Three Permanences, which exist as Voice ³⁰ by virtue of Thought.
And it is a Word ³¹ by virtue of Speech;
it was sent ³² to illumine those who dwell in the [darkness] ³³

Now behold [I will reveal] ³⁴ to you [my mysteries] since ³⁵ you are my fellow [brethren, and you shall] know ³⁶ them all [...]. 47 ¹ [...] ² [...] ³ [...] ⁴ [...] ⁵ I [told all of them about ⁶ my mysteries] that exist in [the ⁷ incomprehensible], inexpressible [Aeons]. I taught [them the mysteries] ⁸ through the [Voice that ⁹ exists] within a perfect Intellect [and ¹⁰ I] became a foundation for the All, and [I ¹¹ empowered] them.
The second time I came in the [Speech] ¹² of my Voice. I gave shape to those who [took] shape ¹³ until their consummation.

The third ¹⁴ time I revealed myself to them [in] ¹⁵ their tents as Word and I ¹⁶ revealed myself in the likeness of their shape. And ¹⁷ I wore everyone's garment and ¹⁸ I hid myself within them, and [they] did not ¹⁹ know the one who empowers me. For

I dwell within ²⁰ all the Sovereignties and Powers and
within ²¹ the Angels and in every movement [that] exists ²² in all matter.
And I hid myself within ²³ them until I revealed myself to my [brethren]. ²⁴
And none of them (the Powers) knew me, [although] ²⁵ if is I who work in them. Rather [they thought] ²⁶ that the All was created [by them] ²⁷ since they are ignorant, not knowing [their] ²⁸ root, the place in which they grew.

[I] ²⁹ am the Light that illumines the All. I ³⁰ am the Light that rejoices [in my] ³¹ brethren, for I came down to the world [of] ³² mortals on account of the Spirit that remains [in] ³³ that which [descended] (and) came forth [from] the ³⁴ innocent Sophia. I [came] and I delivered ³⁵ [...] and I [went] to 48 ¹ [...] ² [...] ³ [...] ⁴ [...] ⁵ [...] ⁶ which he had [formerly and ⁷ I gave to him] from the Water [of Life, which ⁸ strips] him of the Chaos [that is ⁹ in the] uttermost [darkness] that exists [inside] ¹⁰ the entire [abyss], that is, the thought of [the corporeal] ¹¹ and the psychic. All these I ¹² put on. And I stripped him of it ¹³ and I put upon him a shining Light, that ¹⁴ is, the knowledge of the Thought of the Fatherhood. ¹⁵

And I delivered him to those who give robes - ¹⁶ Yammon, Elasso, Amenai -
        and they [covered] ¹⁷ him with a robe from the robes of the Light, ¹⁸
and I delivered him to the Baptists and
        they ¹⁹ baptized him - Micheus, Michar, ²⁰ Mn[e]sinous - and
        they immersed him in the spring of the [Water] ²¹ of Life.
And I delivered him to those who ²² enthrone - Bariel, Nouthan, Sabenai -
        and they ²³ enthroned him from the throne of glory. ²⁴
And I delivered him to those who glorify - ²⁵ Ariom, Elien, Phariel -
        and they glorified ²⁶ him with the glory of the Fatherhood
And ²⁷ those who snatch away snatched away - Gamaliel, ²⁸ [...]anen, Samblo,
        the servants of <the> great ²⁹ holy Luminaries -
        and they took him into ³⁰ the light-[place] of his Fatherhood.
And ³¹ he received the Five Seals from ³² [the Light] of the Mother, Protennoia,
and ³³ it was granted] him [to] partake of the mystery of knowledge ³⁴
and [he became a light] in ³⁵ Light.

So, now, [... ] 49 ¹ [...] ² [...] ³ [...] ⁴ [...] ⁵ [...] ⁶ I was] dwelling in them [in the form ⁷ of each one. [The Archons] thought ⁸ [that I] was their Christ. Indeed I [dwell ⁹ in] everyone. Indeed within those in whom [I revealed ¹⁰ myself as Light [I eluded] ¹¹ the Archons.
I am their beloved, [for] ¹² in that place I clothed myself [as] ¹³ the Son of the Archigenetor, and I was like ¹⁴ him until the end of his decree, which is ¹⁵ the ignorance of Chaos.

And among the ¹⁶ Angels I revealed myself in their likeness, ¹⁷
and among the Powers as if I were one ¹⁸ of them,
but among the Sons of Man as if ¹⁹ I were a Son of Man,
even though I am ²⁰ Father of everyone.

I hid myself within them ²¹ all until I revealed myself among my members, ²² which are mine, and I taught them about the ineffable ²³ ordinances, and (about) the brethren. But they are inexpressible ²⁴ to every sovereignty and every ruling ²⁵ power except to the Sons of the Light ²⁶ alone, that is, the ordinances of the Father.

These are ²⁷ the glories that are higher than every glory, that is, [the Five] ²⁸ Seals complete by virtue of Intellect. He ²⁹ who possesses the Five Seals of these ³⁰ particular names has stripped off (the) garments ³¹ of ignorance and put on ³² a shining Light. And nothing ³³ will appear to him that belongs to the Powers ³⁴ of the Archons. Within those of this sort ³⁵ darkness will dissolve and [ignorance] will die. ³⁶ And the thought of the creature ³⁷ which [is scattered will] present a single appearance ³⁸ and [dark Chaos] will dissolve and 50 ¹ [...] ² [...] ³ and the ⁴ [...] incomprehensible [...] ⁵ within the [...] ⁶ until I reveal myself [to all my fellow ⁷ brethren] and until I gather [together] ⁸ all [my fellow] brethren within my [eternal ⁹ kingdom. And I proclaimed to them the ineffable [Five ¹⁰ Seals in order that ¹¹ [ I might] abide in them and they also ¹² might abide in me.

As for me, I put on Jesus. ¹³ I bore him from the cursed ¹⁴ wood, and established him in the dwelling places ¹⁵ of his Father. And those who watch over ¹⁶ their dwelling places did not recognize me. For I, ¹⁷ I am unrestrainable together with my ¹⁸ Seed, and my Seed, which is mine, I shall [place] ¹⁹ into the Holy Light within an ²⁰ incomprehensible Silence. Amen. ²¹