ピスティス・ソフィア——グノーシス派文集、主に……の書からの抜粋

the total expansion of all the regions of the great Invisible and of the three triple-powers and of the four-and-tAventj^i— invisibles, and all their regions and their seons and their orders, how they are extended — those which are the emanations of the great Invisible — and their ungenerated and their self-generated and their generated and their light-givers and their unpaired and their rulers and their authorities and their lords and their archangels and their angels and their decans and their servitors and all the houses of their spheres and all the orders of every one of them. And Jesus had not told his disciples the total expansion of the emanations of the Treasury, nor their orders, how they are extended ; nor had he told them their saviours, according to the order of every one, how they are ; nor had he told them what guard is at every [gate] of the Treasury of the Light ; nor had he told them the region of the Twin-saviour, who | is the Child of the Child ; nor had he told them the regions of the three Amens, in what regions they are expanded ; nor had he told them into what region the five Trees are expanded ; nor as to the seven Amens, that is the seven Voices, what is their region, how they are expanded.…