Gospel of Truth

The place of rest — the children abide in the Father; they speak from the day that is above; they are the perfume, the truth, and the love of the Father, even unto the Beloved Son.

1Speak ye from the heart, for ye are the day which is perfect, and within you abideth the light which faileth not.

2Speak ye of the truth with them which seek it, and of knowledge with them which have committed sin in error. Make sure the foot of them that have stumbled. Stretch your hands forth unto them that are sick. Nourish the hungry. Give rest unto them that are weary. Raise up them that have a will to rise. Wake them that sleep — for ye are the wisdom that is drawn forth.

3If thus strength acteth, it becometh stronger.

4Such is the manner of them that have brought aught from above. They that the Father hath caused to come into being are perfect men, that they may give utterance unto the Father, and find rest in Him; that they may speak of His perfection, and that they should be in Him.

5Each one of them shall manifest his own image. They are sons of the knowledge of the Father, even sons of His knowledge. Of His countenance are they; and as cherubim do they ever bow before the truth of His name.

6Now they that have come from the depth shall not be hindered, neither shall they that lacked the Father go astray. They shall ever in His name find their abode and abound. They shall be filled in unspeakable joy.

7And in His unmovable repose they shall be exalted. They are the truth of the Father; and they are in Him: this perfect — this perfection of being indissoluble in Him — even He which is Himself good.

8There is no needing of soul amongst them. Hearing alone is theirs; and they need not aught else, for the One that is in the Father is theirs. They had begun to know the truth before strangers had begun to come; their root is in the depth, and they are uplifted unto the height of the perfection of the Father — even Him that is filled with goodness toward them.

9He, even He which is Himself the good. They lack nothing, but they have rest, fresh in the Spirit. They shall hearken unto their root. They have leisure for themselves; they that shall find their root; and they shall be no more diminished in their soul.

10Such is the place of the blessed: this is their place.

11Now the others, in their places — let them say of me that what is becoming for me, after the place of rest, is to speak nothing more. But it is in it that I shall be, and to be cleaving in all to the Father of the All, and the true brethren — them upon whom the love of the Father is poured out, and in whose midst there is no lack of Him.

12It is they who are in truth made manifest in the true and eternal life, and who speak of the Light which is perfect, and which is filled with the seed of the Father, and which is in His heart and in His pleroma.

13And His Spirit doth rejoice in it, and doth glorify Him in whom it was: for He is good. And His children are perfect, and worthy of His name.

14For such children doth the Father love.