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The Thought of Norea — NHC-IX-2 — supplied text part 1

Symbols [ ]   Gap in the text (known as a “lacuna”) < >   Editorial correction of a scribal error [27]  Page number of the Coptic codex (hyperlinked) [27] Father of the All, [Insight] of the Light, Mind [abiding] in the heights above the lower realm. Light abiding [in the] heights, Voice of Truth, upright Mind. Ungraspable Word and [inexpressible] Voice, [unfathomable] Father! Norea calls out to them. They [heard]; they welcomed her into her everlasting abode. To her they gave the Father of Mind, Adamas, and in the [two] voices of the holy ones, [28] so that she would rest in the inexpressible Thought, so that <she> would inherit the First Mind that <she> had received, and that <she> would rest in the Self-Begotten Divine, and that she might beget herself, even as [she] inherited the [living] Word, and that she would be unified with all the imperishable ones, and [speak] with the mind of the Father. And [she began] speaking with words of [life], and <she> continued in the [presence] of the Exalted One, [possessing what] she had been given before the world existed. [She possesses] the [great mind] of the unseen ones, [and she gives] glory to <her> Father, [and she] abides within those who [...] within the Fullness, [and] she gazes on the Fullness. Days will come when she will [gaze on] the Fullness,   and she will not abide in the Deficiency, because she has the four holy helpers interceding for her with the Father of the All, Adamas. It is he [29] who is within all of the Adams, possessing the thought of Norea, who speaks of two names that signify one name.