Pistis Sophia — G. R. S. Mead — Section 42
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Work: Pistis Sophia
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G. R. S. Mead 1896 — retained OCR sections
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cried for help, but my voice ascended not in the darkness. And I have gazed into the height, that the Hght, in which I had trusted, might help me ; and when I looked into the height, I saw all the rulers of the aeons in great number, angered against me, rejoicing over me, although I had done them no ill ; but they hated me without a cause. And when the emanations of Arrogant had seen the rulers of the aeons rejoic- ing over me, they knew that the rulers of the seons would not aid me ; they took courage, those emanations which constrained me with violence, and the light which I had …
- Source
- Pistis Sophia; a Gnostic gospel (with extracts from the books of the Saviour appended) originally tr. from Greek into Coptic and now for the first time Englished from Schwartze's L
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- Public domain
- Reading language
- eng
- Source language
- eng
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- Existing approved legacy passages only; completeness against full historical work UNVERIFIED
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