Pistis Sophia

Pistis Sophia — G. R. S. Mead — Section 57

" ' But, as for me, I send forth a song unto thee, 0 light, and my repentance shall reach unto thee in the height. (69) Let thy light come upon me, for they have taken away my light, and I am in affliction because of the light from the time I was made to emanate ; when I gazed into the height towards the light, and I gazed below towards this light-power which is in chaos ; when I rose up and fell down. Thy commandment hath come upon me, and the terrors, which thou didst decree, have thrown me into confusion ; they have surrounded me in FIRST BOOK. 69 numbers like water, they have seized upou me by thy commandment, and thou hast not suffered my fellow-emanations to help me, nor hast thou permitted my companion to save me in my tribulations.' " This is the fifth repentance which Pistis Sophia recited in the chaos, when all the material emanations of Arrogant began [again] to con- strain her." Jesus, therefore, having spoken these words unto his disciples, said unto them : " He that hath ears to hear, let him hear ; and let him in whom his mind seethes, come forward, and expound the interpretation of the meaning of the fifth repentance of Pistis Sophia." And when Jesus had finished speaking, Philip started forward, and rose up, and left pMiip the on the ground the book which had piameth. been in his hands ; for it was he who recorded all the discourse which Jesus uttered, and all that he did. Philip, therefore, came forward and said unto him : (70) " Master, surely it is not on me alone that thou hast imposed the task of taking care of this world, to write all that we shall say and do, and hast not sufi'ered me to come forward and interpret the mysteries of the repentance of Pistis Sophia. My spirit hath seethed in me many a time and oft ; it hath revealed the interpretation, it hath constrained 70 PISTIS SOPHIA. me mightily to come forward to expound the in- terpretation of the repentance of Pistis Sophia ; but I have not been able to do so, for it is I who write down all the words." It came to pass, when Jesus had heard Philip, Jesus ex- that he said unto him : " Hearken, plaineth t-»i i i i ^ i -i t