Let a cloud of smoke cover over their eyes, and a mist of air let it make darkness unto them: and let them not see the day, that they should not lay hold on me.
Let become powerless their plot, and the (things) which they plotted let them come upon themselves they deliberated unto a plot, and it did not happen for them: and they conquered them though being mighty; and the (things) which they prepared evilly fell down upon them.
My hope (is) being in the Lord, and I shall not fear: because thou art my God, [104 ] my Saviour.
It happened therefore, Salome having finished saying these words, said he to her, Jesus, Well (done) Salome and fairly: this is the explanation of the words which said the Pistis Sophia.
But added also Jesus in the word, said he to his disciples, It happened therefore, the Pistis Sophia having finished saying these words in the Chaos, I caused the power of Light which 57 I sent to her for to deliver her, I caused it to make a crown of light unto her head, that should not be able to prevail against her from this hour the emanations of the Self-willed.
And it having made a crown of light unto her head, moved all the matter which (are) evil, which (are) in her, and they were all purged from her [104 ], they perished and they became in the Chaos, looking at them the emanations of the Self-willed, and rejoicing at them.
And the purities of true light which (are) in the Sophia, her true light combined to give power with the light of my power of Light, this which made a crown for her head.
It happened therefore also, while (my power) surroundeth the true light which (is) in the Sophia, her true light did not become outside of the crown of the power of the flame of light, that should not steal it, the emanations of the Self-willed.
These (things) therefore having happened to her, the power of true light which (is) in the Sophia began (and) hymned.
But she hymned unto my power of Light which became for a crown unto her head: [105 ] but she hymned saying, The Light becometh for a crown unto my head, and I shall not become outside it, that should not rob me the emanations of the Self-willed: and (even) if should move all the matters, but I shall not be moved: and (even) if should perish all my matters, and remain in the Chaos, these which were seen by the emanations of the Self-willed.
But I shall not perish, because the light becometh with me, and I also become with the light.
But these words said the Pistis Sophia.
Now therefore he who understandeth the meaning of these words, let him come forward and utter their explanation.
But came forward Maria the mother of Jesus, said she, My son according to the world, [105 ] my God and my Saviour according to the Height, command to me and (let) me utter the explanation of the words which said the Pistis Sophia.
But answered Jesus, said he, Thou also Maria, this (one) who tookest form which (is) in the Barbelo according to the matter, and thou tookest likeness which (is) in the Virgin of the Light according to the Light, thou with the other Mariham the happy.
And the darkness became because of thee, and also came out of thee the body of the matter in which I am becoming, this which I cleansed and I purified it.
Now therefore I command to thee for to utter the explanation of the words, these which said the Sophia.
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.
The divine actively orders events to deliver Sophia from evil plots and purify her.
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.
References are made to emanations of the Self-willed that move against the divine light.
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 text describes a final defeat of evil plots and purging of evil matters from Sophia's being.
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.
The passage centers on the liberation of the Pistis Sophia from entrapment in darkness and evil matter.
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.
The Sophia is described as being combined with the light of divine power.
Iamblichean ritual practice that engages the gods directly through consecrated material symbols and actions, on the premise that divine power descends into properly prepared matter — distinct from philosophical contemplation alone.
Divine power is invoked to purify and protect against evil emanations through specific words and actions.