Tripartite Tractate 13

1The others had a stronger lust for control because they were more honorable [] than the former ones, who had risen up against them. They refused to humble themselves, thinking that they had originated from themselves and had no beginning, and, as for giving birth, that they were the first to give birth to others. The two orders warred against each other, battling for control because of their way of being. As a result, they were flooded with powers and natures that typify mutual combat, possessing lust for control and everything else like it. From these things, empty love of glory drove them to desire control, although not one of them possessed the exalted thought or recognized it.

2The forces of this thought were prepared with the <names> of the pre-existent <ones>, whose representations they are. The order of those of this kind had harmony among themselves. They, however, battled against the order of those of the likeness, while the order of those of the likeness waged war against the likenesses and acted against them in its fury. [] From this it [took place ... their] own [against] each other, many [. . .] necessity positioned them [. . .] so they could prevail [. . .] he did not cease [. . .] and their envy and [their] fury and violence and lust and ignorance succeeded, producing diverse kinds of matter and powers of different kinds, intermixed in great numbers. Meanwhile, the Word, who caused them to be begotten, was awaiting in his mind a revelation of the [hope] that was to come to him from above.

3As the Word roused himself, he received hope and expectation for the Exalted One. As for those of the shadow, he distanced himself from them completely because they warred against him and did not humble themselves before him in the least. But he found rest in those who belonged to memory. As for those who came into being through memory, the Word produced, in an unseen manner and in agreement with their nature, the one who ascended on high, remembering the one who had been deficient, until the light shone on him from above, bestowing life, begotten by the thought of brotherly love among the pre-existent Fullnesses.