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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 7 — Codex III
1. Eternal Life together with Will, and Mind together with Precognition, attended and extolled ⟦page 11⟧ the unseen Spirit and Barbelon, because they had come into being on her account,
2. and the powerful unseen Spirit completed the self-generated God, the Son of Barbelon, so that he could stand in attendance to the great and unseen Spirit, the self-generated God, the Christ, whom he had honored with a great honor,
3. because he had come into being from Primal Thought, he whom the unseen Spirit appointed as God over the All,
4. even subjecting to him the truth inside him, so that he could know the All, he whose name will be uttered to those who deserve such.
5. From Light, which is Christ, and Indestructibility, by means of the gift of the unseen Spirit, the four great lights (approached) by means of the self-generated God to stand in attendance on him.
6. The three are: Will, and Eternal Life, and Idea.
7. However, the four are: Grace, Understanding, Perception, and Discretion.
8. Grace: with the first light, Armozel, who is the ⟦page 12⟧ angel of the first aeon, and there are three aeons dwelling with him: Grace, Truth, Form.
9. The second light: Oroiael, whom he appointed over the second aeon,
10. with whom dwell three aeons, namely: Providence, Perception, Memory.
11. The third light, ‹Daveithe›, was appointed over the third aeon, with ‹whom dwell three aeons›, namely: Understanding, Love, Ideal Form.
12. The fourth light, ‹Eleleth›, was appointed over the fourth aeon,
13. with whom there dwell three aeons, namely: Perfection, Peace, Sophia.
14. These are the four lights who attend the self-generated God,
15. the twelve aeons who attend the Son, by means of the gift and the good will of the great self-generating Christ, by means of the gift and the good will of the unseen Spirit. These are the twelve aeons who pertain to the Son of the self-generated one.