Dialogue of the Savior 14

1Mary asked: “[Of what] kind is the mustard seed? Is it of Heaven, or is it of the earth?”

2The Lord said: “After the Father set up the world for himself, he left much that remained over with the Mother of the All. That is the reason he sows and works.”

3Judas said: “You have said this to us from the true mind. When we pray, how should we pray?”

4The Lord said: “Pray in the place where there is no woman.”

5Matthew says: “He tells us, ‘Pray in the place where there is no woman.’ This means to destroy the works of the female. This is not because there is a different kind of birth, but because they should cease [giving birth].”

6Mary said: “Will they never be destroyed?”

7The Lord said: “[You] know they will perish [once more], [] and [the works] of [the female that are here] will [also] be [destroyed].”

8Judas said [to Matthew]: “The works of the [female] will (indeed) perish. The archons [then] will [invoke their aeons], and we will be prepared for them.”

9The Lord said: “Will they see [you, and will they] see the ones who accept you? Behold, from the Father a true word comes forth to the abyss in silence, with a lightning flash, and it is generative. Do they see it, or do they conquer it? Assuredly, you know better [the path] that [neither angel] nor authority [knows]. It is the path of the Father and the Son, because the two are one, and you will journey on the [path] you have known. Even if the archons grow massive, they will not be able to attain to it. I tell you the [truth], it is difficult even for me to attain to it.”

10[] [Mary] asked [the Lord]: “If works [are destroyed, what in fact] destroys a work?”

11[The Lord said]: “You know that [whenever] I destroy [it, it] will go to its own place.”

12Judas said: “How is the spirit made visible?”

13The Lord said: “How [is] the sword [made visible]?”

14Judas said: “How is the light made visible?”

15The Lord said: “[It is] eternally [made visible] by means of itself.”

16Judas asked: “Who dissolves whose works? Do works [dissolve] the world, or is it the world that dissolves works?”

17The Lord [answered]: “The one who [understands (is the one who dissolves works)]. This is so because it is incumbent on the one who has known the works to work the [will] of the Father.”