Sophia of Jesus Christ

After the resurrection, Jesus appears to the twelve and to seven women on a mountain in Galilee, and reveals Himself as the Saviour come from the Pleroma to set the children of light free.

1After 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.

2And 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.

3And 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.

4And 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?

5And Philip said: For the underlying reality of the All, and for the providence.

6And 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.

7Now 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.

8I 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.

9And Matthew said: Lord, none can find the truth save through Thee. Therefore teach us the truth.

10And 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.

11From 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.

12Since 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.

13He 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.

The Saviour discloses the orders of the Pleroma — the immortal Man, the Son of Man, the Saviour, the great Sophia — and the descent of the seed unto the children of light.

1Then His disciples said unto Him: Lord, Saviour, in what manner was the Man revealed?

2And the perfect Saviour said: I would have you know that He that appeared before the All, in His own infinity, is Self-Grown, Self-Constructed Father — being full of shining, ineffable Light. He, in the beginning, decided to have His likeness become a great power. Immediately the source of that Light appeared as an immortal androgynous Man.

3His male name is Begotten, Perfect Mind. His female name is All-Wise Begettress, Sophia. So she is also called the consort. They are like one another. They have no quarrel between them. From their union came forth the Self-Begotten, the great Christ, the firstborn.

4And He sent forth a great myriad of angels for ministry. And the multitude of those that are without number ought to be praised: They are nameless, but they are named in your nature.

5And Mary said: Holy Lord, whence have Thy disciples come? And whither shall they go? And how should they continue here?

6The perfect Saviour said unto her: I would that ye know that Sophia, the Mother of the All, and the consort, desired by herself to bring these to existence without her male consort. But by the will of the Father of the All, that His unimaginable goodness might be revealed, He created that veil between the immortals, and them that came afterward, that the consequence might follow… every aeon, and chaos — that the defect of the female might appear; and that the error might contend with her.

7And these became the veil of spirit. From the aeons above the emanations of light, as I have said before, a drop from Light and Spirit came down unto the lower regions of Almighty in Chaos, that their moulded forms might appear from that drop. For it is a judgment on him, the Begetter — Yaldabaoth — which is called Saklas. He breathed into them his face, that the deficiency of the things he had moulded might be revealed.

8But this drop revealed their moulded forms through the breath, as a Voice of an immortal Father — and as the Voice of the Self-Begotten. The Holy One sent the Saviour, the Word from the Mother. He is the deathless one — through whom they shall come unto knowledge.

9And He said: I am sent from above, that I might reveal unto you what was from the beginning, on account of the arrogance of the chief Begetter and his angels — since they say of themselves: We are gods. And I came to reveal them unto themselves, and to undo their work; and to send all of them up unto the Light.

10Therefore tread under foot their grave, and humble their malice, and lift up the seed of light unto the place from whence it hath come. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear; for I have spoken these things unto you, that ye may shine forth in the Light, more than these.

11These are the things which the blessed Saviour spake; and He vanished from before them. Then all the disciples were in great, ineffable joy in the Spirit; from that day forth they began to preach the gospel of God, the eternal, imperishable Spirit. Amen.