Zostrianos

Zostrianos

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[Text missing] of the [Text missing] of the words [Text missing] live forever, these things I] Zos[trianos] [ [Text missing] and Iolaos when I was in the world for the sake of these of my age and [those] after me, [the] living elect. God lives!

I [Text missing] the truth with truth [and] knowledge and eternal light. After I parted from the somatic darkness in me and the psychic chaos in mind and the feminine desire [Text missing] in the darkness, I did not make use of it again. After I had found the infinite of my matter.1]) and reproved the dead creation within me and the divine cosmocrater of the perceptible, I preached powerfully about the All to those with alien parts.

Although I tried their ways

the necessity of birth brought me into the visible world, I was never pleased with them; instead, I always separated myself from them because I came into being through a holy [Text missing].

When I, a mixed one, had set straight my sinless soul, then I strengthened 2 the intellectual [ and I [ in the [ of my God [ [Text missing] I having done [ grow strong in a holy spirit higher than god. [ upon me alone as I was setting myself straight, [and] I saw the perfect child [ [Text missing]. With him who [ many times and many [ways, he] appeared to me as a loving [father] when I was seeking the

[male] father of all these [who are]

in thought and perception in form, race, [regionJ, an All and one [that]

restrains and is restrained, a body yet without a body, essence, matter and [those who] belong to all these. It is with them and the divine, unborn Kalyptos and the power [in) them all that existence is mixed. existence:

How do those who exist, coming from the aeon of those who exist- from an invisible, undivided and self-begotten Spirit as three unborn images, have an origin better than existence?

They exist prior [to) all [these], yet (81) they have become the [world].

How are those opposite it and all these 3 ] good, he [Text missing] and an [excuse.] What is [that one's] place?

What is his origin?

How does the one from him belong to him and all these? How [does he come into existence] as simple differing [from] himself? He exists as existence, form, and blessedness, yet by giving strength he is alive with life. How has the existence which does not exist appeared from a power that exists?" While pondering these things to understand them, then after the custom of my race I kept bringing them up daily to the god on the facing page: line 32, �ff T£.

them all, for my fore-fathers and fathers who sought found.

As for me , I did not cease seeking a place of repose worthy of my spirit where I would not be bound in the perceptible world. Then, as I was deeply troubled and gloomy because of the discouragement which surrounded me, I dared to act and to deliver myself to the wild beasts of the desert for a violent death. There stood before me the angel of the knowledge of eternal light. He said to me, "Zostrianos, why have you gone mad as if you were ignorant of the great eternals 4 who are above? [ you [ and concerning [ that you are now saved, [ [Text missing] in eternal death, nor [ [Text missing] those whom you know in order to [] save others, my father's chosen elect? [Do you] [suppose] that you are the father of [your race] or (11} that Iolaos is your father, a [Text missing] angel of god [ you through holy men?

Come and pass through each of [these]. You will return to them another [time] to preach to a living [race],

to save those who are worthy and to strengthen the elect, for great is the struggle of the age, but time [in] this world is short." When he had said this [to me], I very quickly and very gladly went up with him into a great light cloud. I [cast] my body.daµa) upon the earth to be guarded by glories. [We] were rescued from the whole world and the thirteen aeons in it and their angelic'E"Ao.s-) beings.

They did not see us, but their archon was disturbed at [our] [passage,] for the light-cloud 5 [Text missing] it is better than any [worldly] thing.]

With its ineffable beauty it shines brightly [guiding] pure spirits as a spirit-savior and an intellectual word, [not] like those things in the world [Text missing] with changeable matter (11).77) and an upsetting word.

Then I knew that the power in me was set over the darkness because it contained the whole light.

I was baptized there, and

there. I became like one of them. I left the ethereal [earth] and passed by the aeon copies after washing [there] seven times [in] living [water], once for each [of the] aeons. I did not cease until [I saw] absolutely all the waters.

I ascended to the exile which [really] exists. [I] was baptized and [Text missing] world. I ascended to the repentance which really exists [and was] baptized there four times. I passed by the 6 sixth [ aeon I ascended to the [ I stood there after having seen a light of the truth that really exists from its self-begotten root [with] great angels and glories, [ number. I was baptized in the [name of] the divine Autogenes

[by] those powers which are [upon]

living waters, Michar and Mi[cheus.]

I was purified by [the] great Barpharanges. Then they [revealed] themselves to me wrote me in glory.

I was sealed by those who are over these powers, [Michar,]

Mi[ch]eus, Seldao, Ele[nos] and Zogenethlos. I [became] a [root-seeing] angel and stood upon the first aeon that is, the fourth, with the souls. I blessed the divine Autogenes and the forefather Geradama, [ the Autogenes, the first perfect (human], and Seth Emm(acha Seth], the son of [A]damas, the [ the [immovable race], and the [four] [lights [ Mirothea, the mother ( [ I and Prophania[ of the lights and De-[ 7 [Text missing] I was [baptized for the] second time in the name of the divine Autogenes by these same powers. I became an angel of the male race. I stood upon the second aeon, that is, the third, with the children of Seth. I blessed each of them and

was baptized for the third time in the name of the divine Autogenes by each of these powers.

[I] became a holy angel and stood upon the third [aeon], that is, the second. I [blessed] each of them and was baptized for the fourth time by [each of] these powers. I became

[a] perfect [angel.os-)]

[and stood upon] the fourth aeon [that is, the first], and [I blessed each of them.] Then I sought [Text missing] I said [Text missing]I [Text missing] of [Text missing]I [ [Text missing] why[ [Text missing] with power [ them in another way in the reports 8 of men? [Are these] their powers? Or(1') are these the but(&) their names differ from one another? Are there souls Why are there different kinds of human beings? What and(1') in what way are they human?" The great ruler on high Authrounios said to me, "Are you asking about those through which you have passed? Or(1') about this ethereal earth, why

it has a worldly model? Or (1') about the aeon copies, how many there are? Or (1') why they are[not] in pain?

Or (1') about the exile and repentance and about the creation of [Text missing] and the world which the[ really[ you, about[ me, them [ nor[ you [ invisible [spirit and the [ of[ [ [ [ and[ [Text missing] when I [ 9 The[great] ruler on high Authrounios said[to me], "The ethereal earth came into being by a word, yet (8{) it is the begotten and perishable things that it reveals by its indestructibility. With regard to the corning of the great judges, not to taste perception and to be enclosed in creation. But when they came upan it and saw through it the works of the world, they condemned its ruler to death because he was a model for the world, a[Text missing] and an origin of matter.77) used to designate the plan for the physical world.

[begotten] of lost darkness.

When[] Sophia looked[at them] she produced the darkness, as she [Text missing] is beside the

[Text missing] is[ a model]

[Text missing] of essence [Text missing] form (µop¢fiJ [Text missing] an image [Text missing]I [Text missing] the All [ [ [Text missing] darkness[ [Text missing] word [Text missing] power [ aeon] of[creation] to see any of the eternal ones.

10 He saw a reflection, and by means of the reflection.ov) which he[saw] in it, he created the world.

With a reflection of a reflection he worked at the world, and then even the reflection belonging to visible reality was taken from him. But (&) to Sophiala)was given a place of rest in exchange for her repentance.

In consequence ,because she had within her no pure, first reflection, preexisting in it or (11) things that had already come into being through it, he used his imaginationai) produced the remainder; for the image of Sophiala) was always being lost, her countenance deceiving. But (&) the Archon

[Text missing] and made a body which [ concerning the greater [ down [ I saw [ to the heart [ [ he having [ [ [ [ [ perfect through [ [ [Text missing] through it, as it 11 [revealed] the destruction of the world by its [immutability]. It is in the following way that the aeon copies exist: they have not obtained a form from a single power; they do possess eternal glories, and they dwell in the judgment seats of each of the powers. But (81) when souls are enlightened by the light in these and the model which often comes into being in them [without] suffering, she did not think that she saw [Text missing] and the eternal [Text missing] in the blessed [Text missing] each single one [Text missing] each of [Text missing] light [Text missing], and she [Text missing] whole, and she

[Text missing] and a [Text missing] and she [Text missing] she who [ [ [ [ of repentance, [souls] 12 stand according to the power [they have in] themselves. [ lower, they are trained by the copies which receive a model of their souls while still in the world. They came into being after the departure of the aeons, one by one, and they are removed one by one from the copy of exile to the exile that really exists, from the copy of repentance to the repentanceLa) that really exists, [and from the] copy of Autogenes [to the Autogenes] that really exists, and so on. [ The souls [ exist in a [ all[ copies] of aeons [ [ and [ [ the [ [ [Text missing]

[ of[ these [ 13 [bless the god] above the [great] aeons, the [unborn] Kalyptos, the great male Protophanes, the perfect [child] who is higher than god and his eye, Pigeradama.

I called upon the child of the child Ephesech. He stood before me and said, "O messenger of god, son of the father, [I am] the perfect human.

[Why] are you calling on me and asking about those things which you know, as though you were [ignorant] of them?" [But (8{)] [I said,] ''I have asked about the mixture [Text missing] it is perfect and gives [Text missing] there is power which [has ] in which we receive baptism [Text missing] these names are [different ] and why [ [Text missing] in the [ from] others [Text missing] humans

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It is the water of life that belongs to vitality in which you now have been baptized in the Autogenes.

It is the [water] of blessedness which [belongs] to knowledge in which you will be [baptized] in the Protophanes.

It is the water of existence [which] belongs to divinity, that is, to the Kalyptos.

Now the water of life [exists in relation to] a power, that belonging to [blessedness] in relation to essence, and (8{) that belonging to [Divinity] in relation to [existence]. But (8{) all [these] [Text missing] authority and [Text missing] those who [Text missing] water which [becomes pure [Text missing] according to [ when they] depart [ [ [ [ [ 16 existence [as he] is in it. [He] not only [was dwelling] in Thought, but (8{) he [Text missing] them that he is one that is [Being] in the following way: in order that what is might not be endless and formless, he placed a [Text missing] over it; but in order that [he] might become something, the truly new crossed over

it with what is his own, [ existence and the [son].

He is located with him, with him he seeks, with him he surrounds [ everywhere [ from the truth [ takes him who [ exists [ activity [ life [ his word also [ are these after [ they became [ [ [ [ [ [ [ 17 And the power exists together with the essence and the existence of Being, when the water exists.

But (8{) the name in which they wash is a word of the water. Then the first perfect water of the three-powered one [of] the Autogenes [is] the perfect soul's (I/Jvxfi> life; for it is a word of the perfect god while coming into being [ for the Invisible Spirit is a fountain of [them] all. <Thus,>

the rest come from [knowledge ()'VW] as his likenesses. [But] he who knows himself [Text missing] what kind and (11} what [Text missing] alive at one time [Text missing] live with a [Text missing] he is the [Text missing] life, in the [Text missing] become

[limitless ] his [ his]

[own 1 the name [ [ [ [ 18 he really exists-it is so because he limits himself. They [approach] the water according to this single power and the likeness of order.

The Protophanes, the great male invisible perfect mind ("'°�), has his own water as you [will see] when you arrive at his place. This is also the case with the unborn Kalyptos.

In relation to each one a partial exists together with a first form, so that they might become perfect in this way; for the self-begotten aeons are four perfect. [The] individuals of the all-perfect ones[exist them as [perfect individuals].

And (8{) the [Text missing] aeon [Text missing]

for all[ male [ for the alls [Text missing]

[perfect god the triple-]

[male [perfect] individual [ in the [ [ [ [ [ [ 1(9) perfect. those who exist according to a form, a race, an all and a partial difference.

This is also the case for the highway of ascent that is higher than perfect and Kalyptos.

The ( +81) divine Autogenes is chief archon of his own aeons and angels as his parts: for those who are the four individually belong to him; they belong to the fifth aeon together, and the fifth e,p.sts in one. The four [are] the fifth, part by part.

But (81) [Text missing] are perfect individually [because they] have a [Text missing] he is also [Text missing] with [ male] individually [Text missing] for he is a [Text missing] of [Text missing]divine [Text missing]; the and (81) [Text missing] invisible [Text missing] male mind

[ 21 [exist] in them, [ in others, they [ by them all in many places. in every place that he loves and desires, yet they are not in any place.

They contain spiritµa); for they are incorporeal yet are better than incorporeal. They are undivided with living thoughts and a power of truth with those purer than these since with respect to him they are purer and are not like bodies which are in one place.

Above all, they have necessity either (1') in relation to the All or (1') to a part. Therefore, [the] way of ascent [Text missing] is pure [Text missing] each [ [Text missing] herself and [Text missing]them [ [ [Text missing]

[ above all]

[ 22 partial aeons. Then [he said], "How then can he contain an eternal model? The general intellect shares

who are divided join again, and how the parts [join with] the alls and the species and [races]-when one understands these things, one has washed in the washing of Kalyptos. According to each of [the] places one has a portion of the eternal ones [and] one ascends [ as] he [ pure] and simple, he is always [ one of the [ [Text missing] he is pure [for] simpleness.

He is filled [ in [Text missing] existence and a holy spirit. There is 24 nothing of his outside of him. He can [see] with his perfect soul those who belong to autogenic ones; with his mind , those who belong to the triple-male; with his holy spirit, those who belong to Protophanic ones. He can learn of Kalyptos through the powers of the Spirit from whom they have come forth in a far better revelation of the Invisible Spirit. And (&) by means of thought which now is in silence and (&) by first thought of the three­ powered Invisible Spirit, since there is then a report and a silent power purified by a life-giving spirit.

perfect and perfect [Text missing] and all-perfect.

Glories, then, which are set over these are [life-givers] who have been baptized in truth and knowledge.

Those who are worthy are guarded, but (8{) those who [are] not from this race [ and they go [ [ [ in] the fifth, he being [ [Text missing] copy [Text missing] of the aeons [Text missing] namely a washing [Text missing] but (8{) if [one] strips off the world 25 and lays aside [knowledge], then he is one who has no dwelling place and power, [and] because he follows the ways of the others, he is also a sojourner; but (8{) the one who has committed no sin because knowledge was sufficient for him is not anxious when he repents, and (8{) then washings are appointed in these in addition. the path to the self-begotten ones, the one in which you have now been baptized each time, worthy of seeing the [perfect) individuals: it serves as knowledge of the All since it came into being from the powers of the self-begotten ones, the one you acquire when you pass through the all-perfect aeons.

When you receive the third

washing [Text missing], you will learn about the [Text missing] really[ in [Text missing] place. About [these] names , they are as follows: because he is one, [ is like [ while he [ exists and [ a word they [ 26 This is a name which really exists [with ] within her.

These who exist do so in [safety]... resembles. His resemblance in race within what is his own. He can see, understand, enter it and take a resemblance from it. They speak aloud and hear sounds, but (81) they are unable to obey because they are perceptible and somatic.

Therefore, just as they are able to contain them by containing them thus, so is he a reflection [in anguish] in this way, having come into existence in perception [by] a word which is better than material [nature] but (81) lower than intellectual essence. Do not be amazed about the differences among souls.

When it is thought that they are different and do [not resemble [Text missing] of those who [Text missing] and that [Text missing]

[ [Text missing] body, and(&) that [Text missing] time, he [Text missing] a desire 27 their souls exist as [ their body. As for those who are totally [pure], what they possess are four

[species], but (81) those [in]

time are nine. Each one of them has its species and custom. Their likenesses differ, being distinct, and they stand. Other immortal souls associate with all these souls because of the Sophia who looked down.

For there are three species of immortal souls: first, those that have taken root upon the exile because they have no ability to beget, that only those who follow the ways of the others have. As for the one that is a single species which [Text missing]. Second (81), those that stand [upon the ] repentance which [Text missing] sin, being sufficient [Text missing] knowledge(')'1,' being new [ and (81) he has [Text missing]

sinned with the others [ 28 they repented with others [Text missing] from them alone.

For [Text missing] species which exist [Text missing] with those who committed all sins, and they repented.

Either (1') they are parts, or (1') they desired of their own accord.

Therefore, their aeons also are six according to the place which has come to each of them. The third ( +8{) is that of the souls of the self-begotten ones because they have a word of the ineffable truth, one which exists in knowledge (')'11 and [power] from themselves alone and eternal [ They have [] four differentiations just as the species of angels [who] exist:

[Text missing] knowledge [Text missing] the fourth is that one [belonging to the] immortal [souls.]

29 The four lights exist

[there] in this way. [Arm]ozel [is]

[set] over the first aeon.

[Text missing] a promise of god [ 1 of truth and a joining of soul; Oroiael a powerful seer of truth is set over the the second; Daveithe a vision of knowledge is set over the third. Eleleth ( +8{) an eager impulse and preparation for truth is set over the fourth.

The four ( +8{) exist as expressions of truth and knowledge. They exist, although they do not belong to Protophanes but to the mother, a thought of the perfect mind of the light so that immortal souls might receive knowledge for themselves.

[Text missing] these, the Autogenes [Text missing]-orse-[Text missing]-oas, a life [Text missing] all, he is a word [ ineffable [ the] truth he who says [ revelation]

that it exists as [ exists above in [ 30 [Text missing] in a yoking of it [Text missing] in [Text missing] light and thought within his [Text missing]. Since Adam, the perfect man, is an eye of Autogenes, it is his knowledge which comprehends that the divine Autogenes is a word of [the] perfect mind of truth. The son of Adam, Seth, comes to each of the souls as knowledge (')'Jl<.ikTLS') sufficient for them. Therefore, [the] living [seed] came into existence from him. Mirothea is [ the divine Autogenes, [ a from her and [Text missing], since she is a thought of the perfect mind, because of that existence of hers. What is she?

Or(11) did she exist? [Text missing] in what way?

Does she exist? Therefore, the divine Autogenes is word and knowledge(')'Jl<.ikTLS'), and the knowledge (')'JIWCTLS') [ word] therefore [ Adama[ the [simple ones], when she appeared

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gods[ higher than god [ of the [self-begotten ones Autogenes[ first [ angel [ invisible[ some[ soul (t/Juxr',} and[ aeons[ and (81) to the[soul (t/Juxr',} angel [ [ [ [ [ [ 35 [ [Text missing] eternal[ [Text missing]. And [ [ and (81) if[Text missing] namely a soul [ becomes] an [angel...], and (81) [ world[Text missing] angels and [Text missing] that holy one [Text missing] and (81) aeon which [ Autog]enes has [Text missing] them, the[ [Text missing] archon [ ) they have [ difference] which [Text missing] she is not, to speak [Text missing]

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[ [ [ [ secondspecies[ a knowledge[ [Protophanes [male he has[ existence[ unborn, they[ third[Text missing]

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[ Pr]oto[phanes]

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and (&) [the] divine Auto[genes] [Text missing] of the child of [Text missing] triple-male, this male [Text missing] is [Text missing] and a species [Text missing] perfect because it does not have [Text missing] in a knowledge ()'VtOO'lS") [Text missing] like that one [Text missing] a being of the individuals [and] a single knowledge ()'VtOO'lS") of the individuals [Text missing] according to the all numerals do not survive.

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[ [ [ [...Pro]to[phanes(rrpwro¢,avrjs-} [ [42) [Pro]to[phanes [Text missing] mind(vov.;} [ [ [ she who belongs to the [All unborn [ man [ they [ with that one who [ and he who[ he who dwells [ in the perceptible] living with that dead one [ [Text missing] all [ obtain salvation [ that dead one. Yet [all] of them did not need salvation [ first, but they are safe and(&) exist very humbly.

the mortal humanity:

its soul, [its mind] and its body all [are] all [dead].

fathers of [ [material the fire [ [ [ [ [ 43 it transforms. The second (type of humanity is the immortal soul in those who die, anxious over itself; [for] then [it seeks] those things which are profitable [according to] each of them [and] experiences bodily suffering. They [Text missing] and it

[ having]

an eternal god, it associates with daimons.

Now (8{) about the humanity in the exile: when it discovers the truth in itself, it is far from the deeds of others who live [wrongly] stumble.

the humanity that repents:

when it renounces dead things and desires recognized by some Middle Platonic writers: incarnate souls, souls of the dead, and disincarnate souls; see also 27,9-20.

those things which exist, because the immortal mind and immortal soul, [Text missing]... about them making an inquiry about it first, not about conduct but about their deeds.

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The humanity that can be saved is the one that seeks itself and its mind and finds each one of them. Oh how much power this has! The humanity[] that has been saved is that which has not known how these [ as they exist, but it is itself within [the] word as it exists [in it received each [ in every place, having become simple and one; for then this is saved because it can passE'iv) through [them] all and can become [ them all. H it [wishes], then it again parts from them all and withdrawsE'iv) into itself [alone]; for it can become divine

by having taken refuge in god." When [I] heard this, I brought a blessing to the truly living and unborn God [who is] in truth, the unborn Kalyptos, the Protophanes, the invisible male perfect mind, the invisible thrice-male Child [and the] divine Autogenes (4)5 I said to the child of the child Ephesech who was with me, "Can your wisdom instruct me about the scattering of the humanity that is saved, and who those are that are mixed with it and who those are that divide it, in order that the living elect might know?" Then the child of the child Ephesek told [me ] openly, "When withdraws€iv) into itself alone many times and and is close to the knowledge of others, mind and immortal [origin] will [not] understand. Then has a shortage, for it turns, has nothing and separates from it and stands [Text missing] and exists concerns about who can and cannot be saved continue; see 13,8n.

by means of an alien [impulse].

Instead of becoming one, therefore, it takes many forms.

When it turns aside, it comes into being seeking those things that do not exist. When it falls down to them in thought, then it cannot understand them in another way, unless perhaps kl µfin) 46 it is enlightened, and it will become . Thus comes down to birth because of it and is speechless because of the pains and the infiniteness of matter.11). Although it possesses an eternal and immortal power, is bound within the [movement] of the body. It is [made] alive and is bound [always] within cruel, cutting bonds by every evil spirit, until it [acts] again and begins again to come to its senses. Therefore, are appointed for their salvation, and each of the powers resides in this world. Within the self-begotten ones corresponding to each of the [aeons] stand glories so that one who is in the [world] lit., [advance].

might be saved beside them. The glories are perfect thoughts appearing in powers.

They are imperishable because [they are] models of salvation which each saved one receives.

One receives a model strength from each of them, and with the glory as a helper one will thus pass out from the world [and the aeons ]. These 4(7] are the guardians of the immortal soul: Gamaliel and Strernpsouchos, Akrarnas and Loel, and Mnesinous.

[This is the] immortal spirit, Yesseus- [M)azareu[s]-Ye[s]sedekeus.

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Michar; cf. Gos.Eg. Ill 64,15-16; Apoc.Adam V 84,5-8; Trim. Prot. XIII 48,19-20.

the myriads Phaleris, Phalses, [and] Eurios; the guardians of glory, Stetheus, Theo[pe]mptos, Eurumeneus and Olsen; their assistants [in] everything are Ba-[Text missing]-mos, [Text missing]-son, Eir-[Text missing]n, Lalameus, Eidomeneus and Authrou[n)ios; the judges are Sumphthar, Eukrebos and Keilar; the inheritor.fJµTTTwp) Samblo; the angels.os-) who guide the misty clouds are Sappho and Thouro.'' When he had said these things, he told me about all of those in the self-begotten aeons. They were all 48 eternal lights, perfect as perfect individuals.

In relation to each one of the aeons I saw a living earth, a living water, [air made) of light and a fire [that] cannot consume. All of [these) are simple.ow) and immutable:

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imperishable fruit, living human beings and every species kl&>s-), immortal souls, every form and species kl8os-) of mind; gods of truth, angels existing in great glory, an indissoluble body, an unborn issue and an immovable perception.

Also there was that which suffers, although it is unable to suffer, for it was a power of a power.

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his own. There are [those] as begotten ones, and those that are in an unborn begetting; and there are those that are holy and eternal,

those unchanged by death and perishable by indestructibility.

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[races] and those that are [in a]

world with order; there are those in [in destructibility], and there are the first ones [that stand] and the second ones [in] all of them, [all] those [that] derive from them and [those that] are (in] them. And [ these that [follow] them [ l these [ and [the] fourth aeons stood [ [Text missing] they existing [ [Text missing]...[ [ (11]5 in them, he being scattered abroad.

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and a revealer of god.

When she had strengthened him who [knew her], the aeon Barbelo, the knowledge of the invisible three- powered perfect Spirit [ her, saying, "He [ life. I am alive in [ You, the One, are alive. He is alive, [he] who is three. It is you who are [the] [three] who [Text missing] three [doubled e e e. The first of seven [ the third [ the second [ e e e e a a a a a a a[Text missing]

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[Text missing] knowledge [ [ 1... [ [ [11]9 part? What kind of mind?

What kind of wisdom? What kind of under­ standing, what kind of teaching? His lights are given names: the first [is Arme]don and his consort [Text missing]; the second is Dipha- ne-[ and] his consort Dei- ph-[Text missing]; the third is [Malsed]on and his consort [Text missing]; the fourth is [Text missing]-s and his consort Olmis.

Kalyptos exists having [Text missing] and his Idea.

[He is] invisible to all these so that they all might be strengthened by him

[Text missing] he exists in [Text missing] all-perfect because [he has] four existing [Text missing] and the first, the [Text missing] nor according to a [Text missing] alone [ B]arbelo [ [ [ 1[20) know him and the one who is set over a second. The first of the aeons is Harmedon, the father-glory. The second light one whom [he does] not [know], but all the [individuals], wisdom [Text missing], reside in the fourth [aeon,] who has revealed [himself] and all the glories. [The third] light he [ not... as the expression of all [the species] and that other

[glory], understanding, [who is]

in the third [aeon].

There are four in him:

Malsedon and [ -nios. The fourth [] light is the one who sees [ of all the forms existing together[ a teaching and glory [ and the truth of the [four aeons], O[l]mis, [Text missing] and the [ [ [Text missing]

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fifth. The first who is the second, that is, it is the all-perfect Kalyptos, for there are four lights . It is Kalyptos who has divided again. They dwell together, and these who know all those that exist as glories, all of them perfect. This one [Text missing] knows everything about them all, since he is all-perfect.

From him is every power, every one and their entire aeon, because they all come to him.

They all come from him, the power of them all the origin of them all.

When he learned [of them], he became a [Text missing] aeon and a [Text missing] ingenerateness.

[Text missing] other aeons [in ] a [ [ [ 1[2]2 become a Barbelo, he becomes a first aeon because of the eternity of the Invisible Spirit, the second ingenerateness. These are all the glories: the limitless Aphredons, [ the] ineffables, the revealers, all the [Text missing] imrnutables, the glory-revealers; the twice-revealed Marsedons, the limitless Solmises

who are [full] of glory, those who [wait for] glory, the blessers, the M[arse-] dons; the Kalyptoi who [ the limits [those who are] upon the limits [ ... those that dwell [in [ [ [ Lines 24 and following do not survive.

[123) ten thousand glories in them. Therefore, it is a perfect glory so that whenever it can join and prevail, it becomes perfect.

Thus, even if it enters into a body and a death from matter WATJ), they do not receive greater honor because of their all-perfectnessfrom which all these come, being perfect, together with those that are with him. Indeed each of the aeons has ten thousand aeons in himself, so that by existing together he may become a perfect aeon. There is in the [Blessedness] of the three­ [powered] perfect Invisible [Spirit ] silence [Text missing] who became first [Text missing] and the knowledge [ [ [Text missing]

12[4] whole, a silence of the second knowledge, the first thought in the will of the Three- Powered, because he commanded her to know him so that he might become all-perfect and perfect in himself. By simplicity and blessedness he is recognized. [I received] goodness through that follower of the Barbelo aeon, the one who gives being to himself...[ is not the power, but she belongs to him. The aeons which really exist do so in silence.

Existence was inactivity, and knowledge of the self-established Kalyptos was ineffable.

Having come [from the] fourth, the [ thought, the Proto[phanes], as perfect male [Mind [ [ [1)25 it is his image, equal to him in power and glory, but(&) with respect to order higher than him, not in aeon.

Kalyptos really exists, and (&) with him is located she who belongs to all the glories, Youel, the male virgin glory, through whom are seen all the all-perfect ones: those that stand before him are the thrice [Text missing] child, the thrice [Text missing], the Autogenes [Text missing]. He has [Text missing] in one...

[ the one ] again who prevails over the [Text missing] existing in [ [ 12[6] of ten thousand-fold. The first aeon in him, from whom is the first light, Solmis and the god revealer, being infinite according to the type in the Kalyptos aeon and Doxomedon.

The second aeon Akremon the ineffable with the second light Zachthos and Yachtos. The third aeon is Am- brosios the virgin with the third light Setheus and Antiphantes.

The [] fourth aeon is the blesser [ race with [the] fourth light [Seldao]

him... [ [Text missing] Arm[edon [ [1)27 phoe zoe zeoe ze[Text missing] zosi zosi zao zeooo zesen.zes- en - the individuals and the four who are eight-fold are alive.

eooooeaeo - you who are before them, you who are in them all. They are within the perfect male Annedon Protophanes, the activity of all those that dwell together.

Since all the individuals were existing as perfect ones, the activity of all the individuals appeared again. As for the divine Autogenes, he stands within an aeon, having within himself four different self-begotten aeons. The first ( +61) aeon in him of the first light is [Hannoze]l-Orneos-Euthrou­ nios, also called [Text missing]

[The] second [aeon of]

[the second light is]

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1[28] Arros-[Text missing]. The third of the third light Daveithe-Laraneus-Epipha- nios-Eideos. The fourth of the fourth light isEleleth-Kodere-Epi­ phanios-Allogenios. But(&) as for all the rest that reside in matter,[they] were all left.

It was because of their knowledge of majesty, their audacity and power that they came into existence and adorned themselves. Because they did not know god, they shall pass away.

Behold, Zostrianos, you have heard all these things of which the gods are ignorant and seem infinite to angels." I on my part became bold and said, "I am[still] wondering about the three­ powered invisible perfect Spirit- how it exists for itself,[ ... everything[Text missing] which really exist[ [Text missing] what is the[ [Text missing] and (1')[ [Text missing] of[ [12]9 very, they set[me] left.

Apophantes withAphropais the Virgin-light came before me and brought me into Protophanes, great male perfect Mind. There I saw all of them

in one. I united with them all blessed the Kalyptos aeon, the virgin Barbelo and the Invisible Spirit. I became all-perfect and received power. I was written in glory and sealed.

I received there a perfect crown. I came forth to the perfect individuals.

All of them began questioning me, listening to the magnitude of my knowledge, rejoicing and receiving power. When I again came down to the aeons of Autogenes, I received a true image, pure suitable for the perceptible. I came down to the aeon copies and came down here 130 to the ethereal [earth]. I wrote three wooden tablets left them as knowledge for those who would come after me, the living elect.

Then I came down to the perceptible world and put on my image. Because it was ignorant, I strengthened it went about preaching the truth to everyone.

Neither the angelic beings of the world nor the archons saw me, for I evaded a multitude of [judgments] that brought me near death.

But(&) an erring multitude I awakened saying, ''Understand, you who are alive, the holy seed of Seth. Do not [be] disobedient to me. [Awaken] your divine part to god, and as for your sinless elect soul, strengthen it. Note the dissolution of this world and seek the immutable ingenerateness. The [Father] of all these invites you.

Although reprove you ill-treat 131 you, he will not abandon you.

Do not baptize yourselves with death nor entrust yourselves to those who are inferior to you as if to those who are better. Flee from the madness and the bondage of femaleness, and choose for yourselves the salvation of maleness. You have not come to suffer; rather, you have come to escape your bondage. Release yourselves, and that which has bound you will be dissolved. Save yourselves so that your soul may be saved. The kind U'P1]0'T6s-) Father has sent you the Savior and given you strength. Why are you hesitating? Seek when you are sought; when you are invited, listen. For the time is short. Do not be led astray. Great is the aeon of the aeons of the living ones,

of those who are unconvinced.

Many bonds and chastisers surround you.

1[3)2 Flee quickly before death reaches you.

Look at the light. Flee the darkness. Do not be led astray to your destruction." 2.ostrianos Oracles of Truth of Zostrianos. God of Truth.

Teachings of Zoroaster.

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