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The Secret Book of John
Samuel Zinner, edited by Mark M. Mattison; Other Gospels · Translated text
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Chapter 5 — Codex III
1. She became Primal [Man], the virginal Spirit, ⟦page 8⟧ the [triple-male], [the triple-]honored, [the triple-named], [the triple]-powerful, the aeon that is androgynous and unaging, [who] issued forth [from his Providence,]
2. [and Barb]elon [entreated] him [to grant her] Pre[cognition], and he agreed.
3. After agreeing, [Pre]cognition ap[proached] him and [stood attending] together with Thought, which is Providence.
4. She extolled the unseen [Spirit] and the perfect power, [Barbelon], because she had come into being on account of her.
5. She entreated again that she be granted Indestructability, [and] he agreed.
6. When he had agreed, Indestructability approached and stood attending together with Thought and Precognition.
7. They extolled the unseen Spirit and Barbelon, because they had come into being [on account of] her,
8. and she entreated that she be granted Eternal Life, and he agreed, and when he had agreed, Eternal Life approached.
9. She attended [and] extolled him and Barbelon, because ⟦page 9⟧ they had come into being on account of her, from the emergence of the unseen Spirit.
12. These are the aeonic pentad of the Father, which is the Primal Man, the [image of] the unseen one.
13. This is Barbelon, and Idea, and Precognition, and Indestructibility, and Eternal Life.
14. This is the androgynous pentad, being the aeonic decad of the Father.