Chapter 1

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After He had risen from the dead, His twelve disciples, and seven women, continued to be His followers. And they went up unto Galilee, upon the mountain called Divination and Joy. They were perplexed concerning the order of the cosmos, and concerning the providence, and concerning the underlying realities, and the disposition of the Pleroma, and concerning the rulers.

And while they were doubting these things, the Saviour appeared unto them — not in His former appearance, but in the invisible Spirit, His resemblance like unto a great angel of Light.

And His likeness I cannot describe; for no mortal flesh can endure it. Only such pure and perfect flesh as that which He revealed unto us upon the mount called the Mount of the Olives, in Galilee.

And He said: Peace be unto you. My peace I give unto you. And they all marvelled, and were afraid. The Saviour laughed; and He said unto them: What are ye thinking? Wherefore are ye perplexed? What is it that ye seek?

And Philip said: For the underlying reality of the All, and for the providence.

And the Saviour said: I would have you know that all that have been begotten on this earth from the foundation of the world unto the present, being dust, while inquiring concerning God — who He is, and what He is like — have not found Him.

Now the wise philosophers among them have made guesses concerning the truth from the order of the world. But the guess hath not reached the truth. For of three different opinions, by all the philosophers, the difference is not concerning the same thing. So none of them hath found the truth.

I am come from the Self-Begotten, that I might reveal unto you Him that is from the beginning. He that is, before all things — the Unbegotten Father — wisheth that I should make Him known unto you.

And Matthew said: Lord, none can find the truth save through Thee. Therefore teach us the truth.

And the Saviour said: He that is is ineffable. None of the rulers hath known Him from the foundation of the world. None other than He alone, and they unto whom He shall reveal Himself by Him that came from the first Light.

From now I am the great Saviour. For He is the Immortal — and the Eternal. The Eternal is also unbegotten; everyone that is begotten shall perish. He is the Unborn; without beginning. Each one that hath a beginning hath an end.

Since none ruleth over Him, He hath no name; whoever hath a name is the creation of another. He is unnameable. He hath no human form; whoever hath human form is the creation of another.

He hath His own semblance — not like the semblance which we have received and beheld; rather, a strange semblance which surpasseth all things, and is better than the All. It looketh in every direction, and seeth itself from itself. He is unfathomable; He surpasseth every thought.