Selections from “Pistis Sophia” – Chapter 32, Part 2 of 2

“Hear me, O Light, for thy grace is precious, and look down upon me according to the great mercy of thy Light. Turn not thy face from me, for I am exceedingly tormented. Haste thee, hearken unto me and save my power. Save me because of the rulers who hate me, for thou know my sore oppression and my torment and the torment of my power which they have taken from me. They who have set me in all this evil are before thee; deal with them according to thy good pleasure.”

“Now, therefore, O Light of lights, may the darkness and the matter which the emanations of Self-willed have brought upon me, be unto them for a snare, and may they be ensnared therein, and recompense them and may they be made to stumble and not come into the region of their Self-willed. May thy judgment lay hold upon them.”

“For they have taken my light from me, and my power has begun to cease in me and I am destitute of my light. Now, therefore, O Light, which is in thee and is with me, I sing praises to thy name, O Light, in glory. May my song of praise please thee, O Light, as an excellent mystery, which leads to the gates of the Light, which they who shall repent will utter, and the light of which will purify them. Now, therefore, let all matters rejoice; seek ye all the Light, that the power of the stars which is in you, may live.

For the Light has heard the matters, nor will it leave any without having purified them. Let the souls and the matters praise the Lord of all æons, and [let] the matters and all that is in them [praise Him]. For God shall save their soul from all matters, and a city shall be prepared in the Light, and all the souls who are saved, will dwell in that city and will inherit it. And the soul of them who shall receive mysteries will abide in that region, and they who have received mysteries in its name will abide therein.”