Gospel of Philip 13

1Whoever comes out of the world can no longer be bound, because they were in the world. They are revealed to be above the desire of the [… and] fear. They are master over […]; they are better than envy. If […] come, they—the powers—bind and choke [them]. How will [they] be able to escape the [great powers …]? How will they be able to […]? Some [say], “We are faithful,” so that […] [impure spirit] and demon, because if they had the Holy Spirit, no impure spirit would cling to them. Do not fear the flesh or love it. If you fear it, it will master you; if you love it, it will swallow and choke you.

2A person exists either in this world, in the resurrection, or in the middle places. May I never be found there! There is both good and evil in this world. Its good things are not good, and its evil things are not evil. But there is an evil after this world that is truly evil: what is called “the middle.” It is death. While we are in this world, it is right for us to acquire the resurrection for ourselves, so that when we are stripped of the flesh, we will be found in the rest and will not travel in the middle, because many stray along the way.

3It is good to come out of the world before one sins. Some neither want to nor can, but others, even if they wanted to, would not benefit, because they did not act. Their wanting makes them sinners. But even if they do not want, justice will still be hidden from them. It is not the will, and it is not the act.

4An apostle saw [in a] vision some people confined in a burning house and bound with burning […], thrown […] of the burning […] them in […], and they said to them [… able] to be saved […] they did not want to, and they received […] punishment, which is called “the [outer] darkness,” because it […].

5The soul and the spirit came into being from water and fire. The offspring of the bridal chamber came from water and fire and light. The fire is the chrism; the light is the fire. I am not talking about that formless fire, but about the other one, whose form is white, which is bright and beautiful and gives beauty.

6Truth did not come into the world naked, but came in types and images. It—the world—will not receive truth in any other way. There is a rebirth and an image of rebirth. It is truly necessary to be begotten again through the image. What’s the resurrection and the image? Through the image, it is necessary for it to arise. The bridal chamber and the image? Through the image, it is necessary for them to enter the truth, which is the restoration. It is not only necessary for those who acquire the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, but they too have been acquired for you. If someone does not acquire them, the name will also be taken from them. But they are received in the chrism of the […] of the power of the cross. The apostles called this “[the] right and the left,” because this person is no longer a [Christian], but a Christ.

7The Lord [did] everything in a mystery: a baptism, a chrism, a Eucharist, a redemption, a bridal chamber […]. He [said], “I came to make [the below] like the [above and the outside] like the [inside, and to unite] them in the place.” […] here through [types …] Those who say, “[…] there is one above […,” are wrong, because] what is revealed is that […], that [which] is called “what is below,” and what is hidden is to it what is above it, because it is good, and they say “inside and what is outside and what is outside the outside.” So the Lord called destruction “the outer darkness.” There is nothing outside it.

8He said, “My Father who is hidden.” He said, “Enter your closet, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father who is hidden,” that is, the one who is within all of them. But the one who is within all of them is the fullness. Beyond that, there is nothing else within. This is what is called “that which is above them.”

9Before Christ, some came from where they were no longer able to enter, and they went where they were no longer able to come out. Then Christ came. He brought out those who entered and brought in those who went out.