The Wisdom of Jesus Christ - Part 7

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The Savior, Pistis Sophia, and Other Powers Appear (106,9-108,16)

 

(p.292) His disciples said again, " Tell us exactly how they have come down from

what is invisible, from the immortal realm to the world of mortality. "

 

The perfect Savior said, " The Child, the Son of Humanity, came together with his

companion Sophia and disclosed a bright androgynous light. The male name of the

light is Savior, the one who conceives all, and the female name is

all-conceiving Sophia. Some call her Pistis, Faith. [28]

 

" All who come into the world, like a droplet from the light, are sent by him

into the world of the ruler of the universe, [29] to be guarded by him. The

fetter of his forgetfulness [30] has kept the light bound, by the will of

Sophia, so that the reality of the circumstance might be <revealed> through the

light to the whole impoverished world, on account of the arrogance and blindness

of the ruler of the universe and the name of ignorance he was given.

 

" I have come from the places above by the will of the bright light, and I have

escaped from that fetter. I have smashed the work of those who are robbers. I

have awakened the droplet sent from Sophia, that it might produce an abundance

of fruit through me, and be made perfect and never again be defective. (p.293)

Then the droplet from the light may be <made whole> [31] through me, the great

Savior, and its glory may be revealed, and Sophia also may be vindicated of what

was defective, and her children may never again be defective, but may attain

glory and honor and go up to their Father and know the words of the light of

maleness.

 

" You in turn were sent by the Son, who was sent that you might receive light and

escape the forgetfulness of the authorities. In this way the unclean sexual

rubbing from the ferocious fire of the flesh of the authorities may never again

come to expression through you. Trample on their evil intentions. "

 

The Nag Hammadi Scriptures (The International Edition)

Edited by Marvin Meyer; Advisory Board: Wolf-Peter Funk, Paul-Hubert Poirier,

James M. Robinson; Introduction by Elaine H. Pagels

The Wisdom of Jesus Christ, p.292-293

HarperCollins Publishers - New York

ISBN:978-0-06-052378-7

ISBN-10: 0-06-052378-6

 

Notes:

 

[28] On Pistis Sophia, cf. the 'Nature of the Rulers', 'On the Origin of the

World', and the text entitled 'Pistis Sophia'.

 

[29] The text reads 'pantokrator,' here and below.

 

[30] On this phrase, cf. 'Gospel of Mary' 17.

 

[31] Here the text of the Codex III is emended [corrected] to read 'eunanoh<h>f,

on the basis of the BG 8502 version. This Coptic word may also be translated,

more literally, " joined " or " integrated, " or, by extension, " liberated. "