Its thought is taking away the light from me at every time; and as iron they are cutting, [92 ] they took away a power from me.
I loved to come down unto the Chaos, more than to remain in the Place of the thirteenth Aeon the Place of the righteousness; and they wished to take me by guile, for to swallow down all my light.
Because of this therefore the Light will take away all their light, and (will) be overthrown all their other matter and it will take away their light, and not let them dwell in the thirteenth Aeon their place of dwelling, and not leave their name in the Place of those who will live: and will see the (things) which happened to thee O power of face of lion, the twenty-four emanations, and they (will) fear and not be disobedient, but they (will) give up the purgation of their light, and they will see thee, and (will) rejoice over thee, and (will) say, Behold, an emanation [92 ] which did not give up the purgation of its light, that it should be delivered, but it boasteth itself in the multitude of the light of its power, because that it did not emanate out of the power which is in it, and it said, I shall take away the light of the Pistis Sophia, this which they will not take from her.
Now therefore he whose power was exalted in 51 him let him come forward and utter the explanation of the eleventh repentance of the Pistis Sophia.
Then came forward Salome, said she, My Lord, concerning this thy power of light prophesied once by David, saying in the fiftieth with one psalm, Why doth the powerful boast himself in his wickedness?
Thy tongue meditateth the violence all the day; as a razor [93 ] being sharp thou didst beguile.
Thou lovedst the evil more than the good.
Thou lovedst the violence more than speaking of the righteousness.
Thou lovedst all the words of the deceit with a tongue of guile.
Because of this God will overthrow thee for ever, he will pluck thee up, and he (will) drag thee out of thy abode: and he will tear (away) thy root, and he (will) cast it outside of those who live.
Diapsalma.
The righteous will see and they (will) fear and they will mock at him and they (will) say, Behold a man who put not God to him for helper.
But he trusted upon his wealth which is much, and he presumed upon his vanity.
But I, I am being as a tree of olive yielder of fruit in the house of the God, I trusted unto the mercy of God even unto age of the age.
[93 ] And I shall manifest to thee because thou workedst with me, and I have patience upon thy name because kind it is in presence of thy holy (ones).
This therefore now, my Lord, is the explanation of the eleventh repentance of the Pistis Sophia, thy power of light having moved me, I said it according to thy wish.
It happened therefore, Jesus having heard these words which said them Salome, said he, Well (done) Salome.
Amen, amen I say to you, I shall complete you in every mystery of the kingdom of the light.
But added also Jesus in the word, said he to his disciples, It happened therefore after these (things) I drew near unto the Chaos enlightening greatly greatly, that I should take away the light of that power of face of lion: while I am enlightening [94 ] greatly, it (she MS.
A chain of divine beings or principles flowing downward from a single transcendent source (the One or the Father), each level less perfect than the one above.
The text references 'twenty-four emanations' and a 'thirteenth Aeon', implying a structured hierarchy of divine levels.
Final, collective cosmic judgment as an event in which the wicked are sentenced and the cosmos restored; distinct from psychopomp_journey (individual passage at death) and emphasising verdict where Zoroastrian frashokereti emphasises restoration.
The passage describes the overthrowing of powers and the final fate of the wicked in the thirteenth Aeon.
The Gnostic myth of Wisdom's prolapse from the Pleroma — her unilateral desire or error producing the Demiurge and the entrapment of divine sparks in matter.
References to 'Pistis Sophia' and her light being threatened imply a narrative of divine entrapment or error.
The felt condition of exile from one's divine origin — Rumi's reed flute torn from its bed, Plotinus's 'we have forgotten,' the Gnostic forgetfulness; the affective wound that complements return_to_source and gives the return its motive.
The speaker laments that their light is being taken away and they are being dragged out of their abode.
The doctrine — central to Eastern Orthodox and Maximian theology — that the human person is progressively transformed into a partaker of the divine nature by grace, not merely justified or united in passing ecstasy.
Jesus promises to complete Salome in every mystery of the kingdom of the light, implying transformation into divine participation.