Sophia of Jesus Christ 9

1Mary asked him, “Holy Lord, where did your disciples come from, where are they going, and how should they act here?”

2The perfect Savior said to them, “I want you to know that Sophia, the Mother of the World and the consort, wanted by herself, without her male counterpart, to bring these into existence. However, by the will of the Father of the World, so that his ungraspable benevolence could be manifested, he created the curtain between the immortals and those that arrived thereafter, so that the result could follow that [ . . . ]

3(Coptic pages 115-116 missing)

4[] “[. . .] and breath, and could from two become one, just as it was from the beginning, that you could produce much fruit and ascend to He Who Is from the beginning, in unspeakable joy and glory, and [honor and] the gift of [the Father of the World].

5“[Consequently], whoever knows [the Father in perfect] knowledge [will go] to the Father [and repose in] the unbegotten [Father]. However, [whoever knows him imperfectly] will go [to the deficiency] and the repose [of the Ogdoad].

6“[Now], whoever silently knows the immortal [Spirit] of light, by reflecting and agreeing with the truth, if he gives to me signs of the Invisible One, he will become a light in the silent Spirit. Whoever knows the Son of Man in knowledge and love, if he gives me a sign of [] the Son of Man, he can go to the dwelling-places of those in the Ogdoad.”