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[THE FIRST BOOK OF] PISTIS SOPHIA It came to pass, when Jesus had risen from the chap. i. dead, that he passed eleven years ^discoursine; i. with his disciples, and instructing them only up hitherto to the regions of the First Commandment a-nd J^g*^^^*®*^^ up to the regions of the First Mystery, that within ^^ly up to ^ , , J J J ^ ^^Q regions the Veil, within the First Commandment, which of the First is the four-and-twentieth mystery without and ^^ ®^^* below — those [four-and-twenty] which are in the second space of the First Mystery which is before all mysteries, — the Father in the form of a dove. And Jesus said to his disciples : '* I am come what the forth out of that First Mystery, which is the last te^ gur^^" mystery, that is the four-and-twentieth mystery." ^oundeth. And his disciples have not known nor understood that anything existeth within that mystery ; but they thought of that mystery, that it is the head of the universe and the head of all existence ; and they thought it is the completion of all com- pletions, because Jesus had said to them concern- ing that mystery, that it surroundeth the First Commandment and the five Impressions and the great Light | and the five Helpers and the 2. whole Treasury of the Light. And moreover Jesus had not told his disciples 1 1 PISTIS SOPHIA The regions of the great Invisible. The Trea- sury of the Light. 3. The Light- world.

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