I then ascended to the veils of the 13th æon [star system].
The veils drew apart of their own accord and opened themselves for me. I entered in into the 13th æon and found Pistis Sophia [human oversoul] below the 13th æon all alone and no one of them with her.
She sat in that region grieving and mourning, because:
- she had not been admitted into the 13th æon, her higher region.
- of the torments which Self-willed, who is one of the three triple-powers, had inflicted on her.
When Pistis Sophia saw me shining with no measure for the light which was about me, that she was in great agitation and gazed at the light of my vesture.
She saw the mystery of her name on my vesture and the whole glory of its mystery, for formerly she was in the region of the height, in the 13th æon.
But she was wont to sing praises to the higher light, which she had seen in the veil of the Treasury of the Light.
When she persisted in singing praises to the higher light, that all the rulers who are with the 2 great triple-powers, and her invisible who is paired with her, and the other 22 invisible emanations gazed [at the light],–in as much as Pistis Sophia and her pair, they and the other two-and-twenty emanations make up four-and-twenty emanations, which the great invisible Forefather and the two great triple-powers have emanated."
CHAPTER 30
Mary wanted to hear the story of Sophia.
[THE STORY OF PISTIS SOPHIA]
Sophia wanted to enter the Light-world
When Pistis Sophia was in the 13th æon, in the region of all her brethren the invisibles, that is the 24 emanations of the great Invisible,–it came to pass then by command of the First Mystery that Pistis Sophia gazed into the height.
She saw the light of the veil of the Treasury of the Light, and she longed to reach to that region, and she could not reach to that region. But she ceased to perform the mystery of the 13th æon, and sang praises to the light of the height, which she had seen in the light of the veil of the Treasury of the Light.
When she sang praises to the region of the height, that all the rulers in the 12 æons, who are below, hated her, because she had:
- ceased from their mysteries
- wanted to go into the height and be above them all
They were enraged at his as was the great triple-powered Self-willed, that is the third triple-power, who is in the 13th æon, he who had become disobedient, in as much as he had not emanated the whole purification of his power in him, and had not given the purification of his light at the time when the rulers gave their purification, in that he desired to rule over the whole 13th æon and those who are below it.
When the rulers of the 12 æons were enraged against Pistis Sophia, who is above them, and hated her exceedingly, that the great triple-powered Self-willed, of whom I have just now told you, joined himself to the rulers of the 12 æons, and also was enraged against Pistis Sophia and hated her exceedingly, because she had thought to go to the light which is higher than her.
He emanated out of himself a great lion-faced power [Lyrans], and out of his matter in him he emanated a host of other very violent material emanations, and sent them into the regions below, to the parts of the chaos, in order that they might there lie in wait for Pistis.
Sophia and take away her power out of her, because she thought to go to the height which is above them all, and moreover she had ceased to perform their mystery, and lamented continuously and sought after the light which she. had seen. And the rulers who abide, or persist, in performing the mystery, hated her, and all the guards who are at the gates of the æons, hated her also.
By command of the First Commandment that the great triple-powered Self-willed, who is one of the three |46. triple-powers, pursued Sophia in the 13th æon, in order that she should look towards the parts below, so that she might see in that region his lion-faced light-power and long after it and go to that region, so that her light might be taken from her.
CHAPTER 31: Sophia takes the lion-faced power of Self-willed for the true Light
She looked below and saw his light-power in the parts below. She knew not that it is that of the triple-powered Self-willed, but she thought that it came out of the light which she had seen from the beginning in the height, which came out of the veil of the Treasury of the Light.
She thought to herself: I will go into that region without my pair and take the light and thereout fashion for myself light-æons, so that I may go to the Light of lights, which is in the Height of heights.
She descendeth to the 12 æons and thence into the chaos.
This then thinking, she went forth from her own region, the 13th æon, and went down to the twelve æons. The rulers of the æons pursued her and were enraged against her, because she had thought of grandeur.
She went forth also from the 12 æons, and came into the regions of the chaos and drew nigh to that lion-faced light-power to devour it.
But all the material emanations of Self-willed surrounded her, and the great lion-faced light-power devoured The emanations of Self-willed squeeze the light-powers out of Sophia.
All the light-powers in Sophia and cleaned out her light and devoured it, and her matter was thrust into the chaos; it became a lion-faced ruler in the chaos, of which one half is fire and the other darkness,–that is Yaldabaōth.
When then this befell, Sophia became very greatly exhausted, and that lion-faced light-power set to work to take away from Sophia all her light-powers, and all the material powers of Self-willed surrounded Sophia at the same time and pressed her sore.
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