The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 · 24 of 24 · tr. Samuel Zinner
Conclusion
In your hearing I have finished everything for your sake, but I have said everything to you so that you may write them down and distribute them in secret to your companion spirits, because this is the mystery of the unmoving race.”
The savior also entrusted these sayings to him so that he would write them down and keep them locked away, and he said to him: “Cursed be any who will trade these sayings for a gift, either of food, or of drink, or of garments, or of any other thing like these.”
[II, 32] These sayings were also entrusted to him in a mystery, and suddenly he vanished from him, and he departed to his companion disciples and informed them about what the savior had said to him.
Jesus Christ. Amen.
According to John The Secret Writing
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Hidden Sayingssoteriology
Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.
The passage explicitly defines the text as a 'Secret Writing' and commands that these sayings be distributed in secret to specific companions, making the esoteric nature of the teaching the central theme.
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A spiritual elite who possess the divine spark and are predestined for salvation, contrasted with psychic (faithful) and hylic (material) persons.
The instruction to distribute teachings only to 'companion spirits' and the reference to the 'unmoving race' implies a distinction between a spiritual elite capable of receiving this knowledge and the general populace.
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