Gospel of Philip 9

1The children of the heavenly human are more numerous than the children of the earthly human. If Adam has so many children, even though they die, how many children does the perfect human have—those who do not die but are begotten continually?

2The father produces a son, but a son cannot produce a son, because someone who has been born cannot beget sons. The son begets brothers, not sons. All who are begotten in the world are begotten physically, and the others in […] are begotten by him […] out there to the human […] in the […] heavenly place […] it from the mouth […] the Word came out from there. They would be nourished from the mouth [and] become perfect. The perfect are conceived and begotten through a kiss. This is why we also kiss one another, conceiving from the grace within one another.

3There were three who traveled with the Lord all the time: his mother Mary, her sister, and Magdalene, who is called his companion; because Mary is his sister, his mother, and his partner.

4“The Father” and “the Son” are single names. “The Holy Spirit” is a double name, because they are everywhere. They are in heaven and below; they are hidden and revealed. The Holy Spirit is revealed below and hidden in heaven.

5The holy ones are served by the evil powers, because the Holy Spirit has blinded these powers so that they think they are serving an ordinary human when they are actually working for the holy ones. So one day a disciple asked the Lord about a worldly matter. He told him, “Ask your Mother, and she will give you from someone else.”

6The apostles said to the disciples, “May our entire offering acquire salt.” They called […] “salt.” Without it, the offering does not [become] acceptable. But Wisdom [is] childless. Because of this, [she is] called […], this of salt, the place they will […] in their own way. The Holy Spirit […] […] many children.

7What belongs to the father belongs to the son. But as long as the son is little, he is not entrusted with what is his. When he becomes a man, his father gives him everything that belongs to him.

8Those who have been begotten by the Spirit and go astray also go astray through it. Because of this, through this one Spirit it blazes—that is, the fire—and it is extinguished.

9Echamoth is one thing, and Echmoth is another. Echamoth is simply Wisdom, but Echmoth is the Wisdom of Death, which knows death. This is called “the little Wisdom.”