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CHAPTER 10.

It happened now when the sun rose in the East,
a great power of light came down, in which was my garment
which I had left in the 24th mystery, as I have just been
telling you. And I found a mystery in my garment, written
in the manner of writing of those of the height :<lacuna untranslateable>
whose interpretation is : 'O Mystery which art outside the world ,
because of which the All exists - this is the whole coming forth
and the whole ascent which has emanated all emanations and all
that is within them, and because of which all mysteries and all
their places exist - come forth to us because we are thy
fellow-members.

But we all with thee alone, we and thou are one and the
same. Thou art the First Mystery which has existed from
the beginning in the Ineffable One, before he went forth,
and the name of that one is all of us. Now all together we
will approach thee at the last boundary , which is the last
mystery from within, itself a part of us. Now we have sent
thee thy garment which has belonged to thee from the
beginning, which thou didst leave in the last boundary,
which is the last mystery from within, until its time was
completed according to the command of the First Mystery.

Behold, the time is completed. Put it on, come to us, that
we all approach thee to put on thee the First Mystery
with all his glory, through his own command; as the First
Mystery, having two garments , has given it to us that we
should put it on thee, apart from this which we have sent
thee because thou art worthy, since thou art first among us
and thou didst exist before us . Because of this the First
Mystery has sent to thee through us the mystery of his
whole glory, having two garments. That is, in the first is
all the glory of all the names of all the mysteries and all
the emanations and the ranks of the spaces of the Ineffable
One. And in the second garment is the whole glory of the
name of all the mysteries and all the emanations which are
in the ranks of the two spaces of the First Mystery. And
in this garment which we have now sent thee is the glory
of the name of the mystery of the informer, which is the
first ordinance, and the mystery of the five incisions, and
the mystery of the great messenger of the Ineffable, who is
the great light, and the mystery of the five leaders who are
the five helpers (parastatai). And furthermore, there is in
that garment the glory of the name of the mystery of all the
ranks of the emanations of the Treasury of the Light, and
their saviours, and (the mystery on the ranks of the ranks,
which are the seven amens and the seven voices and the
five trees and the three amens and the twin saviour, namely
the child of the child, and the mystery of the nine watchers
of the three gates of the Treasury of the Light . And further-
more there is in it the whole glory of the name (of all
those) who are on the right, and all those who are in the
Midst. And furthermore there is in it the whole glory of the
name of the great invisible one, who is the great forefather ,
and the mystery of the triple power, and the mystery, of their
whole place, and the mystery, of all their invisible ones and
of all those who are in the thirteenth aeon , and the name
of the twelve aeons and of all their archons and all their
archangels and all their angels, and of all those which are
in the twelve aeons, and the whole mystery, of the names of
all those which are in the Heimarmene and all the heavens.
And the whole mystery of the name of all those in the sphere,
and their firmaments and all those which are in them, and
all their places. Behold now, we have sent thee that garment
which no one knew, from the first ordinance downwards,
because the glory of its light was hidden within it. And the
spheres and all the places from the first ordinance down-
wards (did not know it). Behold now, put on this garment
quickly.

Come to us that we approach thee to put on thee
thy two garments, through the command of the First Mystery
they having been for thee with the First Mystery since the
beginning until the time appointed by the Ineffable One
which contained their name. They were exceedingly afraid
and all their bonds in which they were bound were loosened,
and each one abandoned his rank. And they all prostrated
themselves in my presence, they worshipped, saying : 'How
has the Lord of the All passed through us without our
knowing?' And they all sang praises at once to the inner-
most of the inner. However they did not see me, but they
saw the light alone and they were in great fear . And they
were greatly agitated, and they sang praises to the innermost
of the inner.

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