CHAPTER 1

I. But it happened that after Jesus had risen from the
dead he spent eleven years speaking with his disciples .
And he taught them only as far as the places of the first
ordinance and as far as the places of the First Mystery,
which is within the veil which is within the first ordinance,
which is the 24th mystery outside and below , these which
are in the second space of the First Mystery, which is before
all mysteries the Father in the form of a dove . And
Jesus said to his disciples : "I have come forth from that
First Mystery which is the last mystery, namely the 24th".
And the disciples did not know and understand that there
was anything within that mystery. But they thought that that
mystery was the head of the All , and the head of all the
things that exist . And they thought that it was the completion
of all completions, because Jesus had said to them concerning
the mystery, that it surrounded the first ordinance and the five
incisions and the great light and the five helpers (parastatai) and
the whole Treasury of Light. And moreover Jesus had not spoken
to his disciples of the whole extent of the places of the great invisible
one and the three triple powers and the 24 invisible ones and all their
places and their aeons and all their ranks, how thjey extend - these
which are the emanations of the great invisible one - and their unbegotten
ones and their self-begotten ones and their begotten ones and their
luminaries and their unpaired ones and their archons and their powers
(exousiai) and their lords and their archangels and their angels and their
decans and their ministers and all the houses of their spheres and all the
ranks of each one of them.

And Jesus had not told his disciples of thewhole extent of the emanations of
the treasury, nor their ranks how they extend, nor had he told them of their
saviours, according to the rank of each one, how they are. Nor had he told
them which watcher is over each of the doors of the Treasury of Light.
Nor had he told them of the place of the twin saviour who is the child of the child.
Nor had he told themof the place of the three amens, in which places they extend,
and he had not told them in which places the five trees are spread, nor of the seven
other amens, namely the seven voices, which their place is and how they extend.
And Jesus had not told his disciples of what type are the five helpers (Parastatai).
Or into which places they are brought. Nor had he told them in what manner the
great light extends, or into which places it is brought- Nor had he told them of the
five incisions, nor concerning the first ordinance, into which places they are brought.
But he had only spoken to them in general, teaching them that they existed.
But he had not told them their extent and the rank of their places according
to how they exist. Because of this they also did not know that other places existed
within that mystery. And he had not said to his disciples : "I came forth from such and
such places until I entered that mystery, until I came forth from it." But he had said to
them as hen thaught them : "I came forth from that mystery".

Because of this they thought now
of that mystery that it was the completion of all completions,
and that it was the head of the All, and that it was (the)
whole pleroma, since Jesus had said to his disciples : "That
mystery surrounds the totalities of which I have told you all
from the day on which I met you until today". Because of
this the disciples thought now that there was nothing existing
within that mystery.

Chapter 1 | Chapter 2

[Pistis Sophia Index| Gnostic Society Virtual Library |

Gnostic Scriptures and Fragments section | .Societas Gnostica Norvegia ]