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Hypostasis of the Archons
Samuel Zinner, edited by Mark M. Mattison; Other Gospels · Translated text
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Chapter 10
1. I said: “My Lord, do I, too, originate from their matter?”
2. “You, as well as your offspring, originate from the Father, who existed from the beginning.
3. The souls originate from above, from indestructible light.
4. The authorities, accordingly, are unable to go near them, on account of the spirit of the truth that is inside them, and everyone who knows this path of the truth will be deathless among mortal humans.
5. That seed, however, will not as yet become known.
6. It will become known after three ages, and it will (then) liberate them from the bondage of the error of the authorities.”
7. I said: “My Lord, how much longer until it comes to pass?”
8. He said to me: “Until the moment the True Man in a moldable substance reveals [the spirit of] truth the Father has sent.
9. ⟦page 97⟧ He will then instruct them concerning all things, anointing them with the oil of eternal life, bestowed on him from the kingless generation.
10. They will then be liberated from blind thought, and they will tread on death, which originates from the authorities, and they will ascend to the infinite light where this seed dwells.
11. The authorities then will give up their times, and their angels will weep because of their destruction, and their demons will grieve because of their death.
12. Then all the sons of light will truly know the truth, as well as their root and the Father of the All, and the holy Spirit.
13. All of them will proclaim with a single voice: ‘The truth of the Father is just, the Son reigns over the All.’
14. And from everyone (will come the proclamation): ‘Forever and ever, holy, holy, holy! Amen.’”