Pistis Sophia

Pistis Sophia — G. R. S. Mead — Section 62

all the gnoses, irom the interior of judged and ,1 . , . 1 . n ^ consumed tne interiors to the exterior of the by the fire exteriors, from the ineffable to the 76 PISTIS SOPHIA. darkness of darknesses, and from the light of lights to the depths of matter, from all the gods to all the daemons, from all the lords to all the decans, from all the powers to all the workmen, from the creation of men to beasts, cattle and reptiles, in order that you may be called perfect, perfected in every perfection. (76) Amen, amen, I say unto you, in the region where I shall be in the kingdom of my father, there shall ye be also with me. And when the number of the perfect shall be completed, so that the mixture may be resolved, I shall give order for them to bring all the tyrant gods, who refused to give the glory of their light, and shall give command- ment to the fire of wisdom, through which the perfect pass, to consume to the interior those tyrants until they shall have yielded up the last glory of their light." It came to pass, when Jesus had spoken these Mary inter- words unto his disciples, that he said wo?ds^/^^ unto them : " Understand ye how I Jesus. speak unto you ? " And Mary said unto him : " Yea, Master, I have understood the word which thou hast spoken. Concerning, then, that which thou hast said, namely, that in the dissolution of the whole mixture, thou shouldst take thy seat on a light-power, and thy disciples, that is to say, ourselves, should sit at thy right, that thou FIRST BOOK. 77 shoulclst judge the tyrant gods, those who have not given the glory of their light, and that the fire of wisdom should devour them, until they should have yielded the last light which is in them — concerning this word, thy light-power prophesied of old through David, in the eighty -first Psalm, saying, ' God shall sit in the congregation of the gods, to judge the gods.' " (77) Jesus said unto her : " Well said, Mary." And Jesus continued to speak unto his The repent- disciples, saying : " It came to pass, gop^i'f ig when Pistis Sophia had finished recit- p°\J^* ^°" iner the sixth repentance for the remis- ^^®/^-,, o r mocked by