Gospel of the Egyptians
The Father, the Mother, and the Son — the holy book of the great invisible Spirit, set forth by the great Seth and preserved by the unshakable race.
1The holy book of the great invisible Spirit, the Father whose name cannot be uttered. He came forth from the heights of the perfections; even the Light of the light of the aeons of light. He is the Light of the silence and of the foreknowledge of the Father; the Light of the Word, who came forth in the silence.
2From the bosom of the Father came forth the great Mother, even Barbelo, the male virgin. She is the womb of the All; she is the dwelling-place of the eternal ones.
3And from the Father, in the silence, by the Mother in the bosom, came forth the Son — even the Self-Begotten, the Christ, the Logos.
4And from the Self-Begotten came forth the four great Luminaries — Harmozel, Oroiael, Daveithai, and Eleleth — that they might be the dwelling-places of the holy ones in the four orders of the Pleroma.
5And in the first Luminary, Harmozel, was placed Pigeradamas, the heavenly Man, the head of the unshakable race.
6And in the second Luminary, Oroiael, was placed Seth, the son of Pigeradamas, the father of the great race.
7And in the third Luminary, Daveithai, was placed the seed of Seth — even the holy ones of the four hundred thousand.
8And in the fourth Luminary, Eleleth, were placed the souls of the children which had been born in the cosmos — that they might be drawn upward in the day of their visitation.
9And the great invisible Spirit blessed Seth, and made him a god in the second aeon of light. And Seth begat his seed; and the seed was set apart from the powers of the world.
10Then said Seth: Father, by Thy will I have begotten this seed. By Thy will, watch over it. By Thy will, deliver it from the powers in the day of their persecution.
11And the Father said: Be not afraid. I shall preserve thy seed. I shall send unto them the great angels — even Yesseus, Mazareus, Yessedekeus — to baptize them in the living water. They shall not be lost; they shall not be defiled; they shall not be carried away into the cycle of birth and death.
12And in the latter days I shall send My Beloved, the Christ — even Him that is in the form of the Self-Begotten — and He shall be born of a virgin, and shall live among men, and shall die for the sake of the seed, and shall rise again, and shall draw them all unto Himself.
13And then shall the unshakable race be gathered. They shall come up out of every nation. They shall be sealed with the five seals. They shall be admitted into the bridal chamber. They shall behold the Father; and they shall be one with Him for ever.
