People’s Open Bible

Gospel of Truth 16

I Devote Myself to Father

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1As for the others, may they recognize where they stand. But as for me—having come to the Place of Rest—it is proper not to add anything further; rather, I will come to be in it, and I will devote myself without ceasing to the Father of the All and to the true siblings: those upon whom the love of the Father has been poured, and in whose midst there is no deficiency.

2These are the ones revealed in the Truth; they exist in the true life, and they speak of the Light that is complete and filled with the Father’s seed, that is in his heart and in the Fullness. His Spirit rejoices in it and glorifies the one in whom it existed, because he is good. And his children are complete and worthy of his name, for he is the Father; such are the children whom he loves.

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4Yet there are some whose thoughts are upon toil: they become drunk in seeking, and they lose their mind. But the holy ones are those whose thought has not been defiled by wickedness; their thought remains within them. For the Logos of the Thought searches out what is above—his unsayability—I have [borne/spoken] by means of the mouth of all: the Good—the Messiah.

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