This is the work of those who slander with the Lord and those who say contrary to lawful (things) against my soul.
But thou, O Lord, do mercy with me because of thy name.
Save me because I am poor and I am miserable: my heart was disturbed in my inward part, they took me away from the midst, as a shadow which declined.
They drive me away [99 ] as locusts.
My knees weakened in the fasting, and my flesh changed because of (the want of) the oil.
But I, I became to them for reproach: they saw me, they moved their heads.
Help me, O Lord God, and save me according to thy mercy.
Let them know that this is thy hand, and thou, thou fashionedst it, O Lord.
This therefore is the explanation of the twelfth repentance, this which said the Pistis Sophia being in the Chaos.
But added again Jesus in the word, said he to his disciples, It happened also after these (things), cried up at me the Pistis Sophia, saying, O Light of the Lights, I transgressed in the twelve [99 ] Aeons, I came down from them.
Because of this I said twelve Repentances according to each one of the Aeons.
Now therefore, O Light of the Lights, forgive to me my transgressions, because great greatly it is, because I forsook the Place of the Height, I came, I dwelt in the Place of the Chaos.
These therefore, having said them the Pistis Sophia, she added also in the thirteenth Repentance, saying, Hear me while I hymn unto thee, O Light of the Lights.
Hear me saying the Repentance of the thirteenth Aeon, the Place out of which I came down, that should be completed the thirteenth Repentance of [100 ] the thirteenth Aeon: these Aeons which I transgressed, I came down out of them.
Now therefore, O Light of the Lights, hear me while I hymn unto thee in the thirteenth Aeon, my Place out of which I came.
Deliver me, O Light, in thy great mystery, and forgive my transgression in thy forgivingness.
And give to me the baptisms and forgive my sins, and cleanse me out of my transgression.
And my own transgression is the power of face of lion, this which shall not be hidden from thee in every time, because I came down because of it.
And I, I transgressed alone among the Invisibles, 55 in whose Place I become.
I came down unto the Chaos, [100 ] I transgressed before thee, that thy precept should be completed.
These therefore said the Pistis Sophia.
Now therefore, he whose spirit moveth him for to understand her words, let him come forward and utter their meaning.
Came forward Martha, said she, O Lord, my spirit moveth me for to utter the explanation of those (words) which said the Pistis Sophia.
Thy power prophesied once concerning them by David in the fiftieth psalm, saying thus, Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy great mercy.
According to the multitude of thy compassions blot out my sin.
Wash me greatly out of my unlawfulness.
And my sin is in my presence [101 ] at every time: that thou shouldst be justified in thy words, and conquer in thy giving judgment unto me.
This is the explanation of the words which said the Pistis Sophia.
Said he to her, Jesus, Well (done) (and) fairly, Martha the happy.
Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.
God is described as having 'fashioned it' and 'fashioned' the hand that delivered the prayer.
Disciplined inward attention — sitting, focused, or open-awareness practice — as a stand-alone term that umbrellas active_contemplation, inner_silence, and dhyana-style sitting.
The practice of 'hymn unto thee' constitutes a form of contemplative engagement with the divine.
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 describes a profound felt condition of exile from the divine origin ('Place of the Height', 'Chaos').