Now therefore say unto them, If ye knew the face of the heaven with the earth out of the winds, Whenever some therefore now should come up (close) to you and preach to you a Godhead, and ye know in an exactness that their words agreed and suited (to) all your words, these which I said unto you by witnessings two up to three, and they have agreed in the constitution of the air with the heavens with the cycles with the stars (aster) with the planet (phoster) with all the earth with all which are in it with all the waters also with all which are in them, say unto them, Those who come [315 ] unto you and their words suit and agree in all the knowledge which I said unto you, then receive them (as) belonging unto us.
These are the (things) which ye will say unto the men to whom ye preach, that they should keep them(selves) from the teachings of error.
Now therefore because of the sinners I despoiled my(self) I came unto the World, 178 that I should deliver them, because that the righteous (ones) indeed, these who did not do any of evil ever, and these who did not do sin at all, it is necessary for them to find the mysteries, these which (are) in the Book of Ieou, these which I caused Enokh to write in the paradisos, while speaking with him out of the Tree of the Knowledge and out of the Tree of the life.
And I caused him to put them in the rock of Ararad.
And I put Kalapatauroth, the Ruler who (is) over Ghemmout, this (one) upon whom are the feet [316 ] of Ieou, and he it is who goeth round all the Aeons with the Destinies.
That Ruler I put him being vigilant unto the Books of Ieou because of the Flood, and that no Ruler should envy them and should destroy them.
These which I shall give to you whenever I finish saying unto you the Distribution of the Universe.
These therefore having said them the Saviour, answered Maria, said she, My Lord, then who therefore also is the man who is upon the World, who sinned not at all, this (one) being sound from unlawfulness?
For whenever he should be sound from one he will not be able to be sound from another, that he should find the mysteries which are in the Books of Ieou.
For I say that there is not man upon the World who will be able to be sound from sin.
For whenever he should be able to be sound from one he would not be able to be sound from another.
Answered the Saviour, said he to Maria, I [316 ] say to you that they will find one in thousand, two in ten thousand because of the completion of the mystery of the First Mystery, these which I shall say whenever I should finish Distributing to you the Universe.
Because of this therefore I despoiled my(self) I brought the mysteries unto the World, because they become all under the sin, and they all come short of the free-gift of the mysteries.
Answered Maria, said she to the Saviour, My Lord, before that thou camest unto the Place of the Rulers, and before that thou camest into the World did no soul go unto the Light?
Answered the Saviour said he to Maria, Amen amen I say unto you, Before that I came unto the world not any soul went in unto the Light.
And now therefore I having come, I opened the gates of the Light, and I opened the roads which take in unto the Light.
And now therefore [317 ] he who will do that which is worthy of the mysteries, let him receive the mysteries and go unto the Light.
The Hermetic axiom that the structure of the cosmos is reflected at every scale — 'as above, so below; as within, so without' — making each level a legible map of the others.
The text asserts that words agree in the constitution of the air with the heavens with the cycles with the stars.
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 Ruler Kalapatauroth is placed to guard the Books of Ieou against envy and destruction.
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 to the Tree of Knowledge and Tree of Life imply a structured divine order.
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 outlines a final state where souls will find mysteries based on their sinfulness.
Augustinian and Plotinian doctrine that evil has no positive being of its own but is a lack, distortion, or absence of the good — denying ontological dualism while preserving moral seriousness.
Sin is described as a condition that makes all come short of the free-gift of the mysteries.
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 Saviour despoiled himself to bring mysteries unto the World because they all come short of the free-gift.
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.
Finding the mysteries implies participation in divine knowledge and light.