*' ' 13. Let them be ashamed and destroyed who calumniate my soul. Let them be enwrapped in shame and disgrace who seek evil against me.'
'' This then is the solution of the second re- pentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered."
The Saviour answered and said unto Peter: '* Finely, Peter; this is the solution of her repentance. Blessed are ye before all men on the earth, because I have revealed unto you these mysteries. Amen, amen, I say unto you: | I will perfect you in all fulness from the mysteries of the interior to the mysteries of the exterior and fill you with the spirit, so that ye shall be called ' spiritual, perfected in all fulness.' And, amen, amen, I say unto you: I will give unto you all the mysteries of all the regions of my Father and of all the regions of the First Mystery, so that he whom ye shall admit on earth, shall be admitted into the Light of the height; and he whom ye shall expel on earth, shall be expelled from the kingdom of my Father in the heaven. But hearken, therefore, and give ear attentively FIRST BOOK 49 FIRST BOOK 49 to all the repentances which Pistis Sophia hath uttered. She continued again and uttered the third repentance, saying: ** * 1. 0 Light of powers, give heed and save me. The third ** ' 2. May they who would take away my hght, ofso^lL!' lack and be in the darkness. May they who would take away my power, turn into chaos and be put to shame.
*' * 3. May they turn quickly to darkness, who press me sore and say: We have become lords over her.
** * 4. May rather all those who seek the Light, rejoice and exult, and they who desire thymystery, say ever: May the mystery be exalted.
** * 5. Save me then now, 0 Light, for I lacked my light, | which they have taken away, and I 6i. needed my power, which they have taken from me. Thou then, 0 Light, thou art my saviour, and thou art my deliverer, 0 Light. Save me quickly out of this chaos.' " And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished chap. 38. speaking these words unto his disciples, saying: *' This is the third repentance of Pistis Sophia," that he said unto them: ** Let him in whom a sensitive spirit hath arisen, come forward and speak the thought of the repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered."
It came to pass then, before Jesus had finished Martha speaking, that Martha came forward, fell down receivetT at his feet, kissed them, cried aloud and wept ^o^g^eX"^ with lamentation and in humbleness, saying: '' My Lord, have mercy upon me and have com- passion with me, and let me speak the solution of the repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered."
4 60 PISTIS SOPHIA Martha in- terpreteth the third repentance from Psalm Ixix.
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CHAP. 39.
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And Jesus gave his hand unto Martha and said unto her: *' Blessed is every one who humbleth himself, for on him they shall have mercy. Now, therefore, Martha, art thou blessed. But pro- claim then the solution of the thought of the repentance of Pistis Sophia."
And Martha answered and said unto Jesus in the midst of the disciples: '* Concerning the repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered, 0 I my Lord Jesus, of it thy light-power in David prophesied aforetime in the sixty-ninth Psalm, saying: '' * 1. 0 Lord God, give heed to my help.
*' ' 2. Let them be put to shame and con- founded who seek after my soul.
*' ' 3. May they turn straightway and be put to shame, who say unto me: Ha, ha.
** * 4. May all who seek thee, be joyful and exult because of thee, and they who love thy salvation, say ever: May God be exalted.
*' ' 5. But I am wretched, I am poor; 0 Lord, help me. Thou art my helper and defence; 0 Lord, delay not.'
*' This then is the solution of the third repen- tance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered, singing praises to the height."
It came to pass then, when Jesus had heard Martha speak these words, that he said unto her: *' Well said, Martha, and finely."
And Jesus continued again in the discourse and said unto his disciples: '* Pistis Sophia again continued in the fourth repentance, reciting it before she was oppressed a second time, in order that the lion-faced power and | all the material emanations with it, which Self-willed FIRST BOOK 61 had sent into the chaos, might not take away her total Hght in her. She uttered then this repen- tance as follows: *' ' 1. 0 Light, in whom I have trusted, give The fourth ear to my repentance, and let my voice reach of SopWa. unto thy dwelling-place.
*' * 2. Turn not away thy light-image from me, but have heed unto me, if they oppress me; and save me quickly at the time when I shall cry unto thee.
" * 3. For my time is vanished like a breath and I am become matter.
*' * 4. They have taken my light from me, and my power is dried up. I have forgotten my mystery which heretofore I was wont to accomplish.
*' * 5. Because of the voice of the fear and the power of Self-willed my power is vanished.
'' ' 6. I am become as a demon apart, who dwelleth in matter and light is not in him, and I am become as a counterfeiting spirit, which is in a material body and light-power is not in it.
** * 7. And I am become as a decan who is alone in the air.
** ' 8. The emanations of Self-willed have sore oppressed me, and my pair hath said unto himself: ** * 9. Instead of with light which was in her, they have filled her with chaos. I have devoured the sweat of my own matter and the anguish of the tears from the matter of my eyes, so that they who oppress me may not take the rest.
" ' 10. All this hath befallen me, 0 Light, by thy | commandment and thy command, and 64. it is thy commandment that I am here.
52 PISTIS SOPHIA " ' 11. Thy commandment hath brought me down, and I am descended as a power of the chaos, and my power is numbed in me.
12. But thou, 0 Lord, art Light eternal, and dost visit them who are for ever oppressed.
13. Now, therefore, 0 Light, arise and seek my power and the soul in me. Thy command- ment is accomplished, which thou didst decree for me in my afHictions. My time is come, that thou shouldst seek my power and my soul, and this is the time which thou didst decree to seek me.
" * 14. For thy saviours have sought the power which is in my soul, because the number is com- pleted, and in order that also its matter may be saved.
*' ' 15. And then at that time shall all the rulers of the material seons be in fear of thy light, and all the emanations of the thirteenth material aeon shall be in fear of the mystery of thy light, so that the others may put on the purification of their light.
'* * 16. For the Lord will seek the power of your soul. He hath revealed his mystery, '' ' 17. So that he may regard the repentance of them who are in the regions below; and he hath not disregarded their repentance.
*' * 18. This is then that mystery which is become the type in respect of the race which shall be born; and the race which shall be born will sing praises to the height.
*' ' 19. For the Light hath looked down from 65. the height of its light. It will look down on | the total matter, *' * 20. To hear the sighing of those in chains, FIRST BOOK 63 to loose the power of the souls whose power is bound, — *' ' 21. So that it may lay its name in the soul and its mystery in the power.' " It came to pass while Jesus spake these words chap. 40. unto his disciples, saying unto them: '' This is J^^nask- the fourth repentance which Pistis Sophia hath ceiveth per- uttered; now, therefore, let him who under- ^eak"^ *^ standeth, understand," — it came to pass then, when Jesus had spoken these words, that John came forward, adored the breast of Jesus and said unto him: " My Lord, give commandment to me also, and grant me to speak the solution of the fourth repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered."
Jesus said unto John: '' I give thee command- ment, and I grant thee to speak the solution of the repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered."
John answered and said: '' My Lord and Saviour, concerning this repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered, thy light-power which was in David, hath prophesied aforetime in the one- hundred-and-first Psalm: '''1. Lord, give ear unto my supplication, John inter- and let my voice reach unto thee. fepenttn^e ** ' 2. Turn not away thy face from me; incHne ^^^"^ ^^^^^ Cl> thine ear unto me in the day when I am oppressed; quickly give ear to me on the day when I shall cry unto thee.
'' * 3. For I my days are vanished as smoke, 66 and my bones are parched as stone.
*' * 4. I am scorched as the grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.
64 PISTIS SOPHIA *' ' 5. From the voice of my groaning my bones cleaved to my flesh.
** ' 6. I am become as a pelican in the desert; I am become as a screech-owl in the house.
** * 7. I have passed the night watching; I am become as a sparrow alone on the roof.
*' * 8. My enemies have reviled me all the day long, and they who honour me, have injured me.
" ' 9. For I have eaten ashes instead of my bread and mixed my drink with tears, " ' 10. Because of thy wrath and thy rage; for thou hast lifted me up and cast me down.
** ' 11. My days have declined as a shadow, and I am dried up as the grass, *' * 12. But thou, 0 Lord, thou endurest for ever, and thy remembrance unto the generation of generation[s].
'* ' 13. Arise and have mercy upon Zion, for the time is come to have mercy upon her; the proper time is come.
** * 14. Thy servants have longed for her stones, and will take pity on her land.
'' ' 15. And the nations will have fear of the name of the Lord, and the kings of the earth have fear of thy sovereignty.
'* * 16. For the Lord will build up Zion and reveal himself in his sovereignty.
*' * 17. He hath regarded the prayer of the humble and hath not despised their supplication.
*' ' 18. This shall be recorded for another generation, and the people who shall be created will praise the Lord.
** ' 19. Because he hath looked down on his holy height; the Lord hath looked down from the heaven on the earth, FIRST BOOK. 55 ** * 20. To hear the sighing | of those in chains, 67. to loose the sons of those who are slain, ' '* ' 21. To proclaim the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem.'
*' This, my Lord, is the solution of the mystery of the repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered."
It came to pass then, when John had finished chap. 41. speaking these words to Jesus in the midst of his ^'^^^^ ^?^" ,..,,,. T mendeth disciples, that he said unto him: "Well said, John. John, the Virgin, who shalt rule in the kingdom of the Light."
And Jesus continued again in the discourse and The emana- said unto his disciples: "It came to pass again geU-^^Ued thus: The emanations of Self-willed again op- ^^ain '-^ ^ squeeze the pressed Pistis Sophia in the chaos and desired to lig^t out of take from her her whole light; and not yet was ^^ her commandment accomplished, to lead her out of the chaos, and not yet had the command reached me through the First Mystery, to save her out of the chaos. It came to pass then, when all the material emanations of Self-willed oppressed her, that she cried out and uttered the fifth re- pentance, saying: "*L Light of my salvation, I sing praise The fifth unto thee in the region of the height and again of^sophS!^ in the chaos.
" * 2. I sing praise unto thee in my hymn with which I sang praise in the height and with which I sang praise unto thee when I was in the chaos. Let it come into thy presence, and give heed, 0 Light, to my repentance.
" ' 3. For my power is filled up with | darkness, 68. and my light hath gone down into the chaos.
" ' 4. I am myself become as the rulers of the 56 PISTIS SOPHIA chaos, who are gone into the darknesses below; I am become as a material body, which hath no one in the height who will save it.
'' * 5. I am become also as matters from which their power hath been taken, when they are cast down into the chaos, — [matters] which thou hast not saved, and they are condemned utterly by thy commandment.
'* ' 6. Now, therefore, have they put me into the darkness below, — in darknesses and matters which are dead and in them [is] no power.
" ' 7. Thou hast brought thy commandment upon me and all things which thou hast decreed.
'' * 8. And thy spirit hath withdrawn and abandoned me. And moreover by thy com- mandment the emanations of my aeon have not helped me and have hated me and separ- ated themselves from me, and yet am I not utterly destroyed.
** * 9. And my light is diminished in me, and I have cried up to the light with all the light in me, and I have stretched forth my hands unto thee.
" ' 10. Now, therefore, 0 Light, wilt thou not accomplish thy commandment in the chaos, and will not the deliverers, who come according to thy commandment, arise in the darkness and come and be disciples for thee?
*' ' 11. Will they not utter the mystery of thy name in the chaos?
*' * 12. Or will they not rather utter thy name in a matter of the chaos, in which thou wilt not [thyself] purify?
" * 13. But I have sung praises unto thee, 0 Light, and my repentance will reach unto thee | 69. in the height.
FIRST BOOK 57 *' * 14. Let thy light come upon me, *' ' 15. For they have taken my Ught, and I am in pain on account of the Light from the time when I was emanated. And when I had looked into the height to the Light, then I looked down below at the light-power in the chaos; I rose up and went down.
** ' 16. Thy commandment came upon me, and the terrors, which thou didst decree for me, have brought me into delusion.
** * 17. And they have surrounded me, in numbers as water, they have laid hold on me together all my time.
'' ' 18. And by thy commandment thou hast not suffered my fellow-emanations to help me, nor hast thou suffered my pair to save me out of my afflictions.'
'* This then is the fifth repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered in the chaos, when all the material emanations of Self-willed had continued and oppressed her."
When then Jesus had spoken these words chap. 42. unto his disciples, he said unto them: '* Who hath ears to hear, let him hear; and let him whose spirit seetheth up in him, come forward and speak the solution of the thought of the fifth repentance of Pistis Sophia."
And when Jesus had finished saying these PMiip the words, Philip started forward, held up and laid piameth?"^ down the book in his hand, — for he is the scribe of all the discourses which Jesus spake, and of all of that which he did, — Philip then | came for- 70. ward and said unto him: '' My Lord, surely then it is not on me alone that thou hast enjoined to take care for the world and write down all 58 PISTIS SOPHIA Jesus ex- plaineth that the appointed scribes are Philip and Thomas and Mat- thew.
CHAP. 43.
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Mary inter- preteth the words of Jesus con- cerning the three wit- nesses.
the discourses which we shall speak and [all we shall] do? And thou hast not suffered me to come forward to speak the solution of the mysteries of the repentance of Pistis Sophia. For my spirit hath ofttimes seethed in me and been un- loosed and constrained me to come forward and speak the solution of the repentance of Pistis Sophia; and I could not come forward because I am the scribe of all the discourses."
It came to pass then, when Jesus had heard Philip, that he said unto him: '* Hearken, Philip, blessed one, that I may discourse with thee; for it is thou and Thomas and Matthew on whom it is enjoined by the First Mystery to write all the discourses which I shall speak and [all which I shall] do, and all things which ye shall see. But as for thee, the number of the dis- courses which thou hast to write, is so far not yet completed. When it is then completed, thou art to come forward and proclaim what pleaseth thee. Now, therefore, ye three have to write down all the discourses which I shall speak and [all things which I shall] do and which ye shall see, in order that ye may bear witness to all things of the kingdom of heaven."
When then Jesus had said this, he said unto his disciples: '' Who hath ears to hear, let him hear." | Mary started forward again, stepped into the midst, placed herself by Philip and said unto Jesus: *' My Lord, my in-dweller of light hath ears, and I am ready to hear with my power, and I have understood the word which thou hast spoken. Now, therefore, my Lord, hearken that I may discourse in openness, thou who hast FIRST BOOK 69 said unto us: * Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.'
*' Concerning the word which thou hast spoken unto PhiHp: * It is thou and Thomas and Matthew on whom it hath been enjoined — to you three by the First Mystery, to write all the discourses of the kingdom of the Light and thereto to bear witness '; hearken, therefore, that I may proclaim the solution of this word. This is what thy light-power prophesied aforetime through Moses: ' By two or three witnesses shall every matter be established.' The three witnesses are Philip and Thomas and Matthew."
It came to pass then, when Jesus had heard PhiUp is this word, that he said: " Well said, Mary, this pe^Sdon is the solution of the word. Now, therefore, do *^ ^p^^^" thou, Philip, come forward and proclaim the solution of the fifth repentance of Pistis Sophia, and thereafter take thy seat and write all the discourses which I shall speak, until the number of thy portion which thou hast to write of the words of the kingdom of the Light is completed. Then shalt thou come forward and speak what thy spirit shall understand. But do thou then | now proclaim the solution of the fifth repentance 72. of Pistis Sophia."
And PhiHp answered and said unto Jesus: *' My Lord, hearken that I may speak the solution of her repentance. For thy power hath pro- phesied aforetime concerning it through David in the eighty-seventh Psalm, saying: '' ' 1. Lord, God of my salvation, by day and PhiHpin- by night have I cried unto thee. the^fifth*re- '' ' 2. Let my weeping come before thee; incline pntance tmne ear to my supplication, 0 Lord. ixxxvii.
60 PISTIS SOPHIA a i 3. For my soul is full of evil, my life hath drawn nigh to the world below.
" ' 4. I am counted among them who have gone down into the pit; I am become as a man who hath no helper.
" ' 5. The free among the dead are as the slain who are thrown away and sleep in tombs, whom thou no more rememberest, and they are destroyed through thy hands.
** ' 6. They have set me in a pit below, in dark- ness and shadow of death.
'' * 7. Thy wrath hath settled down upon me and all thy cares have come upon me. (Selah.)
'* * 8. Thou hast put away mine acquaintances far from me; they have made me an abomi- nation for them. They have abandoned me, and I cannot go forth.
" ' 9. My eye hath become dim in my misery; I have cried unto thee, 0 Lord, the whole day and have stretched forth my hands unto thee.
*' ' 10. Wilt thou not surely work thy wonders on the dead? Will not surely the physicians arise and confess thee?
'' ' 11. Will they not surely proclaim thy name 73. in the | tombs, '' ' 12. And thy righteousness in a land which thou hast forgotten?
** ' 13. But I have cried unto thee, 0 Lord, and my prayer shall reach thee early in the morning.
'* ' 14. Turn not thy face away from me.
** * 15. For I am miserable, I am in sorrow from my youth up. And when I had exalted myself, I humbled myself and arose.
*' ' 16. Thy angers are come upon me and thy terrors have brought me into delusion.
FIRST BOOK 61 ** * 17. They have surrounded me as water; they have seized upon me the whole day long.
** * 18. My fellows hast thou kept far from me and my acquaintances from my misery.'
'' This is then the solution of the mystery of the fifth repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered, when she was oppressed in the chaos.'* It came to pass then, when Jesus had heard chap. 44. Philip speak these words, that he said: ** Well^^^^P^^,, J- ^ ^ ' commended said, Philip, well-beloved. Now, therefore, come, and con- take thy seat and write thy portion of all the writing. discourses which I shall speak, and [of all things which I shall] do, and of all that thou shalt see." And forthwith Philip sat down and wrote.
It came to pass thereafter that Jesus continued again in the discourse and said unto his disciples: *' Then did Pistis Sophia cry to the Light. It forgave her sin, in that she had left her region and gone down into the darkness. She uttered the sixth repentance, saying thus: '* * 1. I have sung praises | unto thee, 0 Light, 74, in the darkness below. ^^® »^^*^ ^^ ^ repentance 2. Hearken unto my repentance, and may of Sophia, thy light give heed to the voice of my supplication.
*' * 3. 0 Light, if thou thinkest on my sin, I shall not be able to stand before thee, and thou wilt abandon me, '* * 4. For thou, 0 Light, art my saviour; because of the hght of thy name I have had faith in thee, 0 Light.
*' * 5. And my power hath had faith in thy mystery; and moreover my power hath trusted in the Light when it was among those of the height; and it hath trusted in it when it was in the chaos below.
62 PISTIS SOPHIA CHAP. 45.
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Andrew in- terpreteth the sixth repentance from Psalm cxxix.
** * 6. Let all the powers in me trust in the Light when I am in the darkness below, and may they again trust in the Light if they come into the region of the height.
** ' 7. For it is [the Light] which hath com- passion on us and delivereth us; and a great saving mystery is in it.
** * 8. And it will save all powers out of the chaos because of my transgression. For I have left my region and am come down into the chaos.'
** Now, therefore, whose mind is exalted, let him understand."
It came to pass then, when Jesus had finished speaking these words unto his disciples, that he said unto them: '' Understand ye in what manner I discourse with you? " Andrew came forward and said: *' My Lord, concerning the solution of the sixth repentance of Pistis Sophia, thy light-power prophesied aforetime through David in the one-hundred- and-twenty-ninth Psalm, saying: | ** * 1. Out of the depths I have cried unto thee, 0 Lord.
*' * 2. Hearken unto my voice; let thine ears give heed to the voice of my supplication.
** * 3. 0 Lord, if thou heedest my iniquities, who will be able to pass [the test]?
*' ' 4. For pardon is in thy hands; for the sake of thy name have I waited for thee, 0 Lord.
*' ' 5. My soul hath waited for thy word.
'* ' 6. My soul hath hoped in the Lord from the morning until the evening. Let Israel hope in the Lord from the morning until the evening.
'' * 7. For grace standeth by the Lord and with him is great redemption.
FIRST BOOK 63 '' * 8. And he will deliver Israel from all his iniquities.' " Jesus said unto him: "Well said, Andrew, Jesus com- blessed one. This is the solution of her repen- Andrew, tance. Amen, amen, I say unto you: I will ^^p^^^^'^ perfect you in all mysteries of the Light and all tyrants gnoses from the interiors of the interiors to the judged and exteriors of the exteriors, from the Ineffable down by^thrwise to the darkness of darknesses, from the Light of ^^^• lights down to the...of matter, from all the gods down to the demons, from all the lords down to the decans, from all the authorities down to the servitors, from the creation of men down to [that] of the wild-beasts, of the cattle and of the reptiles, in order that ye may be called perfect, perfected in | all fulness. Amen, amen, I say 76. unto you: In the region where I shall be in the kingdom of my Father, ye will also be with me. And when the perfect number is completed, so that the Mixture shall be dissolved, I will give commandment that they bring all tyrant gods, who have not given up the purification of their light, and will give commandment to the wise fire, over which the perfect pass, to eat into those tyrants, until they give up the last purification of their light."
It came to pass then, when Jesus had finished Mary inter- speaking these words unto his disciples, that he wo^rds of ^ said unto them: '* Understand ye in what manner '^®^^^* I speak with you? " Mary said: '' Yea, Lord, I have understood the word which thou hast spoken. Concerning then the word which thou hast said: At the dissolution of the whole Mixture thou shalt take thy seat on a light-power and thy disciples, 64 PISTIS SOPHIA that is ourselves, shall sit on the right of thee, and thou shalt judge the tyrant gods, who have not given up the purification of their light, and the wise fire will bite into them, until they give up the last light in them, — concerning this word then thy light-power prophesied aforetime through David, in the eighty-first Psalm, saying: ** * God shall sit in the assembly (synagogue) | 77. of the gods and try the gods.' " Jesus said unto her: '* Well said, Mary." CHAP. 46. Jesus continued again in the discourse and The repent- ^^{^ unto his disciplcs I ** It Came to pass, when ance of.., Sophia is Pistis Sophia had finished uttering the sixth cepted. She repcntanco tor the forgiveness oi her trans- thr^ons^ ^^ gression, that she turned again to the height, to see if her sins were forgiven her, and to see whether they would lead her up out of the chaos. But by commandment of the First Mystery not yet was she hearkened to, so that her sin should be forgiven and she should be led up out of the chaos. When then she had turned to the height to see whether her repentance were accepted from her, she saw all the rulers of the twelve aeons mocking at her and rejoicing over her because her repentance was not accepted from her. When then she saw that they mocked at her, she grieved exceedingly and lifted up her voice to the height in her seventh repentance, saying: The seventh '' * 1. 0 Light, I havo lifted up my power unto of Sophia, thee, my Light.
** ' 2. On thee have I had faith. Let me not be scorned; let not the rulers of the twelve aeons, who hate me, rejoice over me.
*' ' 3. For all who have faith in thee shall not be put to shame. Let them who have taken FIRST BOOK 65 away my power, remain in darkness; and let them not get from it any profit, but let it be taken away from them. | *' * 4. 0 Light, show me thy ways, and I shall 78* be saved in them; and show me thy paths, whereby I shall be saved out of the chaos.
" ' 5. And guide me in thy light, and let me know, 0 Light, that thou art my saviour. On thee will I trust the whole of my time.
" * 6. Give heed that thou save me, 0 Light, for thy mercy endureth for ever.
" ' 7. As to my transgression, which I have committed from the beginning in my ignorance, put it not to my account, 0 Light, but rather save me through thy great mystery of the for- giveness of sins because of thy goodness, 0 Light.
" ' 8. For good and sincere is the Light. For this cause will it grant me my way, to be saved out of my transgression; " ' 9. And for my powers, which are diminished through the fear of the material emanations of Self-willed, will it draw near after its command- ment, and will teach my powers, which are diminished because of the merciless, its gnosis.
*' * 10. For all gnoses of the Light are saving means and are mysteries for all who seek the regions of its Inheritance and its mysteries.
'' * 11. For the sake of the mystery of thy name, 0 Light, forgive my transgression, for it is great.
'' ' 12. To every one who trust eth in the Light it will give the mystery which suiteth him; " ' 13. And his soul will abide in the regions of the Light and his power will inherit | the Trea- 79, sury of the Light.
14. The Light giveth power to them who 5 a i 66 PISTIS SOPHIA have faith in it; and the name of its mystery belongeth to those who trust in it. And it will show them the region of the Inheritance, which is in the Treasury of the Light.
*' * 15. But I have ever had faith in the Light, for it will save my feet from the bonds of the darkness.
'' ' 16. Give heed unto me, 0 Light, and save me, for they have taken away my name from me in the chaos.
'' * 17. Because of all the emanations my afflictions and my oppression have become exceed- ingly manifold. Save me out of my transgression and this darkness.
*' ' 18. And look upon the grief of my oppres- sion and forgive my transgression.
** ' 19. Give heed to the rulers of the twelve seons, who have hated me through jealousy.
*' * 20. Watch over my power and save me, and let me not remain in this darkness, for I have had faith in thee.
" ' 21. And they have made of me a great fool for having had faith in thee, 0 Light.
*' * 22. Now, therefore, 0 Light, save my powers from the emanations of Self-willed, by whom I am oppressed.'
*' Now, therefore, who is sober, let him be sober."
When then Jesus had spoken this unto his disciples, Thomas came forward and said: '' My Lord, I am sober, I am plentifully sober, and my spirit is ready in me, and I rejoice exceedingly that thou hast revealed these words unto us. But indeed I have borne with my brethren until now, so that I should not anger them; nay FIRST BOOK 67 rather I have borne with every one that he should come before thee and speak | the solution of the so. repentance of Pistis Sophia. Now, therefore, my Lord, concerning the solution of the seventh repentance of Pistis Sophia thy light-power hath prophesied through the prophet David in the twenty-fourth Psalm, thus: *' * 1. 0 Lord, unto thee have I lifted up my Thomas insoul, 0 my (jOd. the seventh '* ' 2. I have abandoned myself unto thee; from^'psaim let me not be put to shame and let not mine xxiv. enemies mock at me.
*' * 3. For all who wait upon thee shall not be put to shame; let them be put to shame who do iniquity without a cause.
*' * 4. 0 Lord, show me thy ways and teach me thy paths.
** * 5. Lead me in the way of thy truth and teach me, for thou art my God and my saviour; on thee will I wait all the day long.
** * 6. Call to remembrance thy mercies, 0 Lord, and the favours of thy grace, for they are from eternity.
'' ' 7. Remember not the sins of my youth and those of my ignorance. Remember me according to the fulness of thy mercy because of thy good- ness, 0 Lord.