Pistis Sophia Chapter 28

CHAPTER 28.

Jesus continued again with the discourse, he said
to his disciples : "Hear [hear] concerning the things which
happened to me among the archons of the twelve aeons,
and all their archons and their lords and their powers
(exousiai) and their angels and their archangels. Now when
they saw the garment of light which was upon me, they and
their unpaired ones, each one of them saw the mystery of his
name which was in the garment of light which was upon
me. They all prostrated themselves together, they worshipped
the garment of light which was upon me. And they all cried
out at once, saying : 'How has the Lord of All passed through
us without our knowing?' And they all sang praises at once
to the innermost of the inner. And all their triple-powered
ones and their great forefathers and their unbegotten ones
and their self-begotten ones and their begotten ones and their
gods and their light-sparks and their luminaries, in a word,
all their great ones saw the tyrants of their place, that their
power was diminished within them, and that they were
in a state of weakness. And they were in great fear, to which
there was no measure. And they contemplated the mystery
of their name in my garment and they tried to come to
worship the mystery of their name in my garment, and they
were not able, on account of the great light which I had.
But they worshipped at a little distance from me. However,
they worshipped the light of my garment, and they all cried
out at once as they sang praises to the innermost of the
inner.

It happened moreover, when these things happened to the
tyrants which are among the archons, they were all enfeebled,
they fell down in their aeons, and they became like men of
this world who are dead, having no breath within them,
as they did moreover at the time when I took away their
power from them.

It happened now after this, when I came forth from those
aeons, each one of all those who are in the twelve aeons
were all bound within their ranks, and they completed their
works according to the manner in which I had disposed it,
that they should spend six months turned to the left, doing
their works in their quadrangles, and their triangles and
those in their aspects; and furthermore that they should
spend another six months looking to the right, and to their
triangles and their quadrangles and those in their aspects.
Furthermore, this is the manner in which those who are in
the Heimarmene and the sphere will proceed.

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