Selections from “Pistis Sophia” – Chapters 1 to 7, Part 2 of 2

Today, we are honored to share with you excerpts from Chapters 4 through 7 of “Pistis Sophia.”

“While they then said this and wept together, then, on the ninth hour of the morrow, the Heavens opened, and they saw Jesus descend, shining most exceedingly, and there was no measure for His Light in which He was. For He shone more [radiantly] than at the hour when He had ascended to the Heavens, so that men in the world cannot describe the Light which was on Him; and it shot forth Light-rays in great abundance, and there was no measure for its rays, and its Light was not alike together, but it was of diverse kind and of diverse type, some [rays] being more excellent than others; and the whole Light consisted together.”

“That Vesture then I left behind in the last mystery, until the time should be completed to put it on, and I should begin to discourse with the race of men and reveal unto them all from the beginning of the Truth to its completion, and discourse with them from the interiors of the interiors to the exteriors of the exteriors and from the exteriors of the exteriors to the interiors of the interiors. Rejoice then and exult and rejoice more and more greatly, for to you it is given that I speak first with you from the beginning of the Truth to its completion.”

“‘For this cause have I chosen you verily from the beginning through the First Mystery. Rejoice then and exult, for when I set out for the world, I brought from the beginning with me twelve powers, as I have told you from the beginning, which I have taken from the twelve saviors of the Treasury of the Light, according to the command of the First Mystery. These then I cast into the womb of your mothers, when I came into the world, that is those which are in your bodies today. For these powers have been given unto you before the whole world, because ye are they who will save the whole world, and that ye may be able to endure the threat of the rulers of the world and the pains of the world and its dangers and all its persecutions, which the rulers of the Height will bring upon you. For many times have I said unto you that I have brought the power in you out of the twelve saviors who are in the Treasury of the Light. For which cause I have said unto you indeed from the beginning that ye are not of the world. I also am not of it. For all men who are in the world have gotten their souls out of [the power of] the rulers of the aeons (gods). But the power which is in you is from me; your souls belong to the Height.’”