Treatise on the Resurrection 7

1Never doubt, therefore, concerning the resurrection, my son Rheginos! Because if you once did not live in flesh, you took on flesh when you entered this world.

2Why would you not take on flesh when you (return and) ascend into the aeon? What is better than the flesh is what causes life. What came to be for your sake, does it not belong to you? Does not what belongs to you exist with you? While you are in this world, though, what do you lack? This is what you have been exerting so much effort to discover.

3The afterbirth of the body is old age, and you are in a state of mortality. What you lack is a gain, for if you depart, you will not lose what is best. What is worse suffers decline, but there is grace for it.

4So nothing can redeem us from this world. We, however, are the All, (so) we are saved. We have obtained salvation from the beginning to the end. Let us think in this way. Let us understand in this way.