Section 1g

THINGS BELOW LIKE THINGS ABOVE The lord said, “I came to make things below like things above, and the outside like the inside. I came to join them in one place.” He revealed who he is through types and images. Those who say, “There is a heavenly person and one even higher,” are wrong. Who is seen in heaven is the heavenly person, who is called “the one below,” and the one to whom the hidden belongs is called “higher.” It is best to say “inner” and “outer” and “what is beyond the outer.” So the lord called destruction “the outer darkness.” There is nothing beyond. He said, “My father who is in secret.” He said, “Go into the chamber and shut the door behind you, and pray to your father who is in secret,” the one who is innermost. But what is within them all is the fullness. Beyond it there is nothing inside. This is the place they call “the uppermost.” PLACES OF THE SPIRIT Before Christ, some came from a realm they could not reenter, and they went where they could not come out. Then Christ came. Those who went in he took out. Those who went out he took in. EVE IN ADAM When Eve was in Adam there was no death. When she was cut from him, death came into being. If he enters what he was and takes her in him fully, death will disappear. CRUCIFIXION “My god, my god, O lord, why have you abandoned me?” He said these words on the cross. But not from that place. He was already gone. . . . RISING FROM THE DEAD The lord rose from the dead. He became as he was, but now his body was perfect. He possessed flesh, but this was true flesh. Our flesh isn’t true. Ours is only an image of the true. BEDROOM Animals don’t have a bridal bedroom, nor do slaves or dirtied women. Bedrooms are for free men and virgins. BORN AGAIN Through the holy spirit we are again engendered, but conceived through Christ. We are anointed in the spirit. When we were conceived we were united. No one will be able to look at oneself either in water or in a mirror without light, nor see in light without water or mirror. So it is fitting to baptize in light and water. Now the light is the chrism. THREE BUILDINGS IN JERUSALEM There were three buildings in Jerusalem, one facing west called “the holy,” another facing south called “the holy of the holy.” The third facing east was called “the holy of the holies,” where only the high priest enters. Baptism is the holy building. Redemption is the holy of the holy. The holy of the holies is the bridal chamber. Baptism includes resurrection and redemption. Redemption happens in the bridal chamber, but the bridal chamber is part of something superior to it and the others because you will find nothing like it. Those familiar with it are those who pray in spirit and in truth for they do not pray in Jerusalem. There are some who pray in Jerusalem, awaiting the kingdom of heaven, called the holy of the holies. Before the veil was rent we had no bridal chamber but the image of the bridal chamber above. So its veil was torn from top to bottom. It was right for some below to ascend. GARMENT OF LIGHT The rulers do not see you who wear the perfect light, and they cannot seize you. You put on the light in the mystery of union. REUNION IN THE BEDROOM If the woman and man had not come apart, they would not know death. Christ came to repair the split, there from the beginning, and join the two and give them life who had died because of separation.