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The Abridged Gospel of Truth

What is the Gospel of Truth?



Summary - Top
Pt 1
Ch 1a.
Ch 1b.
Ch 1c.
Ch 1d.
Pt 2
Ch 2a.
Ch 2b.
Ch 3.
Ch 4.

Summary and Background

Stats

Other Names
Truth
Author
Disputedly by Valentinus
Setting Range
140CE-180CE
Categories
Gnosticism
Academic Composition Range
140CE-180CE
Historical Preservation
Mostly Complete
Public Domain Translations
PDT
Abridged Status
Finished- 0% Remaining
Original Verse Count
117
Original Word Count
5,034
Abridged Word Count
4,814
Abridged Length
96%

Part 1

Chapter 1a

1:1. The Gospel of Truth is a joy for those who’ve experienced the kindness of God through the power that came from Heaven; the Word.
The Word is the Thought and Mind of God. They are also called Savior because they help people who don’t know God learn about God. And the word “Gospel” is a word of hope, what is found by those who seek.

1:1. The Gospel of Truth is a joy for those who've received grace from the Father of Truth, that they might know him through the power of the Word that came from the fullness - the one who's in the thought and mind of the Father. They call him “Savior.” That's the name of the work he'll do to redeem those who had become ignorant of the Father. And the term “the Gospel” is the revelation of hope, the discovery of those who search for him.

1:2. People naturally search for their origin- and our origin is God.
Not knowing God, or where we come from, is scary.
This fear grew thick like smoke- and Error was created.
Error works on it’s own, not knowing Truth.

1:2. Since all searched for the one from whom they had come - all were within him, the uncontainable, inconceivable one who's beyond every thought - (and) since ignorance of the Father caused anguish and terror, and the anguish grew thick like a fog, so that no one could see - Error was strengthened. It worked on its own matter in vain, not knowing the Truth.

1:3. Error tried to create Truth, but failed.
God didn’t mind though.
Truth is established, unchangeable, and beyond beauty.
So just ignore Error.

1:3. It happened in a deluding way, as it (Error) prepared with power, in beauty, a substitute for the Truth. Now this wasn't humiliating for the uncontainable, inconceivable one, because the anguish and forgetfulness and delusion of deceit were like nothing, whereas the Truth is established, unchangeable, unperturbed, beyond beauty. Because of this, disregard Error, since it has no root.

1:4-5. God didn’t create Error and Forgetfulness, but they exist opposite to good.

God reveals knowledge and destroys Error and Forgetfulness.

1:4. It happened in a fog concerning the Father. It happens (now) since it (Error) prepares works in forgetfulness and terror, so that with them it (Error) might attract those in the middle and imprison them.
1:5. The forgetfulness of Error wasn't revealed; it wasn't a [thought] from the Father. Forgetfulness didn't come into being from the Father, though it did come into being because of him. What comes into being within him is the knowledge, which was revealed so that forgetfulness might be dissolved, and the Father might be known. Forgetfulness came into being because the Father was unknown, so when the Father comes to be known, forgetfulness won't exist anymore.

1:6. This is the news of God, revealed to those who understand the love of God.
Through this news, Jesus Christ enlightened those who were in darkness and forgetfulness, he showed them the Way & the Truth.

1:6. This is the Gospel of the one they search for, revealed to those who are complete through the mercies of the Father, the hidden mystery. Through it (the Gospel), Jesus Christ enlightened those who were in darkness through forgetfulness. He enlightened them; he showed them a Way, and the Way is the Truth which he taught them.

1:7. As a result, Error was angry, and chased Jesus.
Error hung Jesus to a tree, and Jesus turned into the Fruit of Knowledge.
Eating this fruit doesn’t cause death, but joy and life.
Jesus in us; and we are one in Jesus.

1:7. As a result, Error was angry. It pursued him. It was threatened by him and brought to nothing. They nailed him (Jesus) to a tree, and he became the fruit of the Father's knowledge. However, it (the fruit) didn't cause destruction when it was eaten, but those who ate it were given joy in the discovery. He discovered them in himself and they discovered him in themselves.

1:8. As for God- that’s where we all come from. There are many forces and powers and souls, but they all come from God, and will return to God.

1:8. As for the uncontainable, inconceivable one - the Father, the complete one who made all - all are within him, and all need him. Although he kept their completion within himself which he didn't give to all, the Father wasn't jealous. Indeed, what jealousy is there between him and his members? For if, like this, the generation [received the completion,] they couldn't have come […] the Father. He keeps their completion within himself, giving it to them to return to him with a unitary knowledge in completion. He's the one who made all, and all are within him, and all need him.

1:9. God wants to be known and loved.

1:9. Like someone who's unknown, he wants to be known and loved - because what did all need if not the knowledge of the Father?

1:10-11. Jesus was a peaceful and calm guide. He spoke the Word with authority in places of learning. There were those who challenged him, but none succeeded. They were angry because they didn’t know the Truth. Children came to visit him, and they were inspired and got to know Jesus and learned about God.
The Book of the Living, which was written by God before creation, was revealed in their hearts. Anyone who sees this book dies- but it says who has eternal life. Jesus suffered to earn the right to read the book.
The book works like a will- upon opening and reading, it is made official.

1:10. He became a guide, peaceful and leisurely. He came and spoke the Word as a teacher in places of learning. Those who were wise in their own estimation came up to him to test him, but he confounded them because they were vain. They hated him because they weren't wise in Truth. After all of them, all the little children came too; theirs is the knowledge of the Father. When they were strengthened, they received teaching about the Father's expressions. They knew and they were known; they received glory and they gave glory. In their hearts the living Book of the Living was revealed, which was written in the thought and mind [of the] Father, and before the [foundation] of all within his incomprehensibility. This (book) is impossible to take, since it permits the one who takes it to be killed. No one could've been revealed among those who'd been entrusted with salvation unless the book had appeared. Because of this, the merciful and faithful Jesus patiently suffered until he took that book, since he knows that his death is life for many.
1:11. When a will hasn't yet been opened, the wealth of the deceased master of the house is hidden; so too all were hidden while the Father of all was invisible. They were from him, from whom every realm comes. Because of this:

1:12. Jesus was brought forward,
Carried that book,
was crucified on a wooden cross,
and announced God's message.

1:12. Jesus was revealed,\nput on that book,\nwas nailed to a tree,\nand published the Father's edict on the cross.

1:13. That's deep!

1:13. Oh, what a great teaching!

1:14. By accepting death,
he took on eternal life,
shedding his temporary human body,
and putting on a body that can't be lost,
that no one can take from him.

1:14. Drawing himself down to death,\nhe clothed himself in eternal life,\nstripped himself of the perishable rags,\nand clothed himself in incorruptibility,\nwhich no one can take from him.

1:15. He went into hell, and walked past people who had become lost in Error and forgetfulness.
He became understanding, announcing what really matters, teaching those who were open to learning.

1:15. When he entered the empty realms of terror, he passed through those who were stripped by forgetfulness, being knowledge and completion, proclaiming the things that are in the heart […] teach those who will [receive teaching].

1:16. Anyone who is able to learn about this stuff has their name in the Book of Life.
They learn about themselves from God, and go to heaven after.

1:16. Now those who will receive teaching [are] the living who are written in the Book of the Living. They receive teaching about themselves, and they receive it from the Father, returning to him again.

Chapter 1b

1:17. Everyone will eventually return to God.
If someone understands, they pull others towards them through God, because God is what others need.
Everyone should visit God to see what kinds of gifts God has for them. God planned these things out long ago, and is ready to give them.

1:17. Since the completion of all is in the Father, it's necessary for all to go up to him. Then, if someone has knowledge, they receive what are their own, and he draws them to himself, because the one who's ignorant is in need. And it's a great need, since they need what will complete them. Since the completion of all is in the Father, it's necessary for all to go up to him, and for each one to receive what are their own. He inscribed these things beforehand, having prepared them to give to those who came out from him.

1:18. Those who don't understand this message is because God hasn't written their names and called them out. God is keeping them in ignorance until the end.

1:18. Those whose names he knew beforehand were called at the end, so that the one who has knowledge is the one whose name the Father has called, because those whose name hasn't been spoken are ignorant. Indeed, how can someone hear if their name hasn't been called? For the one who's ignorant until the end is a delusion of forgetfulness, and they'll dissolve with it. Otherwise, why do these miserable ones have no name? Why do they have no voice?

1:19. So, if someone understands, that means they're from Heaven.
If they're called, they listen, reply, and ascend to the One who called them.
They have knowledge, and want to follow the will of God, to do good, and find peace.
Everyone will live up to their name.
Someone with this kind of understanding knows where they came from and where they’ll go.
They're like someone who wakes up from being drunk and finds everything they lost the night before.

1:19. So if someone has knowledge, they're from above. If they're called, they hear, they reply, and they turn to the one who calls them. And they go up to him, and they know how they are called. Having knowledge, they do the will of the one who called them, they want to please him, and they receive rest. Each one's name becomes their own. The one who has knowledge like this knows where they come from and where they're going. They know like one who, having been drunk, turns from their drunkenness, and having returned to themselves, restores what are their own.

1:20. Jesus has guided many back from Error and Forgetfulness. He led them back home.
They were lost and confused because God is so big and confusing.
It’s amazing that they were part of God without knowing it, able to live on their own.
God reveals God's Will through Knowledge, in Harmony with everything.

1:20. He's returned many from Error. He went before them to the realms from which they had moved away. They had received Error because of the depth of the one who surrounds every realm, though nothing surrounds him. It's a great wonder that they were in the Father, not knowing him, and that they were able to come out by themselves, since they weren't able to grasp and know the one in whom they were. He revealed his will as knowledge in harmony with all that emanated from him.

1:21. This knowledge is also in Book of the Living, which God will share at the end of time.
God will show they're not just random letters, but Letters of Truth- the letters themselves are alive.
Each letter represents a complete idea, just like a whole book. They're messages from God, so future generations could understand.

1:21. This is the knowledge of the living book which he revealed to the generations at the end, letters from him revealing how they're not vowels or consonants, so that one might read them and think they're meaningless, but they're letters of the Truth - they speak and know themselves. Each letter is a complete thought, like a book that's complete, since they're letters written by the Unity, the Father having written them so that the generations, by means of his letters, might know the Father.

1:22. Jesus meditates on the Word,
He teaches it with patience, joy, and harmony.
He lives it in every ounce of his being,
And built a body around it.

1:22. His Wisdom meditates on the Word,\nhis teaching speaks it,\nhis knowledge has revealed it,\nhis patience is a crown upon it,\nhis joy is in harmony with it,\nhis glory has exalted it,\nhis image has revealed it,\nhis rest has received it,\nhis love made a body around it,\nhis faith embraced it.

1:23. This is how the Word manifests from God's heart through everyone, an expression of God's Will.
It supports everyone.
It selects and cleanses them, bringing them back to God and Jesus.

1:23. In this way, the Word of the Father goes out in all, as the fruit [of] his heart and an expression of his will. But it supports all. It chooses them and also takes the expression of all, purifying them, returning them to the Father and to the Mother, Jesus of infinite sweetness.

1:24. God's heart is the Holy Spirit.
God is hidden in the Chosen- who was sent to us, so that we don't have search endlessly for God and can find true peace.
God has satisfied the need of humans by destroying the illusion of the world.
Where there's division, there's conflict and jealousy, but where there is Unity, there is satisfaction.
Desire and Need only exist when God isn't known, but once God is known, Desire will no longer exist.
Just like ignorance disappears when knowledge is gained, and darkness disappears when the light is turned on, Desire disappears in Unity.
So the illusion of this world will become obvious, but it will stay around, until it will one day dissolve into Unity.

1:24. The Father reveals his bosom, and his bosom is the Holy Spirit. He reveals what's hidden of himself; what's hidden of himself is his Son - so that through the mercies of the Father, the generations may know him and cease their work in searching for the Father, resting in him and knowing that this is the rest. He's filled the need and dissolved its appearance - its appearance is the world in which it served, because where there's envy and strife there's need, but where there's Unity there's completion. Since need came into being because the Father wasn't known, when the Father is known, from then on, need will no longer exist. As someone's ignorance dissolves when they gain knowledge, and as darkness dissolves when the light appears, so also need dissolves in completion. So the appearance is revealed from then on, but it'll dissolve in the harmony of Unity.

1:25. For now, everyone's actions are all spread out.
Eventually, God will bring everything back together.
Everyone will find themselves, and cleanse themselves into Unity, burning up their physical body like fire, extinguishing darkness with light, transforming death into life.
If this truly happens to each one of us, then we should care about everyone, so that this place will be pure and calm, just like Unity.

1:25. For now, their works lie scattered. In time, Unity will complete the realms. Within Unity each one will receive themselves, and within knowledge they'll purify themselves from multiplicity into Unity, consuming matter within themselves like fire, and darkness by light, death by life. If indeed these things have happened to each one of us, then it's right for us to think about all, so that this house will be holy and silent for the Unity.

Chapter 1c

1:26. Yes, everything will disappear and fade into Unity, but why would you care? Would you care if someone broke a bunch of old jars that had cracks in them?
This is how God judges, like a two edged sword.
The Word, who lives in the hearts of those who share it, has become real- not just a simple noise, but it has taken on real, physical form.

1:26. It's like some who've left their home, having jars that weren't any good in places. They broke them, but the master of the house doesn't suffer any loss. Instead he rejoices, because in place of the bad jars are ones that are full and complete. For this is the judgment that's come from above; it's judged everyone. It's a drawn, two-edged sword which cuts both ways. The Word, which is in the hearts of those who speak it, appeared. It isn't just a sound, but it was incarnated (embodied).

1:27. There was a lot of arguing and chaos between the jars- some were empty, others full, some valuable and taken care of, others broken.
All places were in chaos and confusion- even Error was worried.
It didn't know what to do; it felt sad, grieved, and hurt itself, because it had no knowledge.
Knowledge, which destroys Error, walked up to Error and everything it had created.
Error is empty, with nothing inside.

1:27. A great disturbance arose among the jars, because some were empty, others filled; some provided for, others poured out; some purified, others broken. All the realms were shaken and disturbed, because they didn't have order or stability. Error was anxious. It didn't know what to do; it grieved, mourned, and hurt itself, because it knew nothing. The knowledge, which is its (Error's) destruction, approached it (Error) and all that emanated from it. Error is empty, with nothing inside it.

1:28. Then Truth appeared, and everything knew it.
They welcomed God with Truth, and were joined to God.
Truth is the voice of God; the Holy Spirit is the tongue.
Those who embrace Truth and are connected to it are also connected to God- they will receive the Holy Spirit.
This is how God reveals Themself generation after generation.
God reveals and explains everything hidden.

1:28. Truth came into their midst, and all that emanated knew it. They welcomed the Father in Truth with a complete power that joins them with the Father. Truth is the Father's mouth; the Holy Spirit is his tongue. Everyone who loves the Truth and are joined to the Truth are joined to the Father's mouth. By his tongue they'll receive the Holy Spirit. This is the revelation of the Father and his manifestation to his generations. He revealed what was hidden of himself; he explained it, because who has anything, if not the Father alone?

1:29. Every realm comes from God, and the realms themselves know. They knew even before they were formed or given given a name. Then God birthed each one.
Then, when they get formed and shaped with God's knowledge, they forget who God is.
But God remembers them all, and can reveal and name and shape whatever realms God wants.

1:29. Every realm emanates from him. They know they've come out from him like children who are from someone who's completely mature. They knew they hadn't yet received form or a name. The Father gives birth to each one. Then, when they receive form from his knowledge, although they're really within him, they don't know him. But the Father is complete, knowing every realm that's within him. If he wants to, he reveals whomever he wants, giving them a form and a name. He gives a name to them, and causes those to come into being who, before they come into being, are ignorant of the one who made them.

1:30. Everything "exists" in God before it's technically created.
God knows exactly what will be created before it's created, but it can't do anything until it's created.
Every realm is from God, who brings them into existence.
Things without a root in God won't last, they will fade away no matter how hard they try.

1:30. I'm not saying, then, that those who haven't yet come into being are nothing, but they exist in the one who will want them to come into being when he wants, like a later time. Before everything is revealed, he knows what he'll produce. But the fruit which he hasn't yet revealed doesn't yet know anything, nor does it do anything. In addition, every realm which is itself in the Father is from the one who exists, who establishes them from what doesn't exist. For those who have no root have no fruit either. They think to themselves, “I've come into being,” but they'll dissolve by themselves. Because of this, those who didn't exist at all won't exist.

1:31. So what does God want everyone to understand about themselves?
Your life is like a shadow.
When Truth shines on the fear, it disappears.
They had never seen the Truth.
It was like they were deep in a nightmare, filled with fear, confusion, instability, doubt, disagreement, and illusions.
Nightmares like not being able to run away or defend yourself, or falling, or being murdered, or being a murderer!
Until someone in a nightmare wakes up, they can't see things any differently.

1:31. What, then, did he want them to think of themselves? He wanted to them to think, “I've come into being like the shadows and phantoms of the night.” When the light shines on the terror which they received, they know that it's nothing. In this way, they were ignorant of the Father, whom they didn't see. Since it was terror and disturbance and instability and doubt and division, many illusions were at work among them, and vain ignorance, like they were deep in sleep and found themselves in nightmares. Either they're running somewhere, or unable to run away from someone; or they're fighting, or being beaten; or they've fallen from heights, or fly through the air without wings. Sometimes, too, it's like someone is killing them, even though no one's chasing them; or they themselves are killing those around them, covered in their blood. Until those who are going through all these nightmares can wake up, they see nothing, because these things are nothing.

1:32. That's why you should wake up from ignorance.
Don't treat it as real.
Value the knowledge of God as much as you do daylight.
The ignorant are asleep, those with knowledge are awake.
Bless those who return to Heaven and wake up!
Bless those who wake up others!
The Holy Spirit follows them and aids them- helping them get up when they're down.
It provides them with the truth and insights of God and the Child, and they are able to truly appreciate and understand the Child.

1:32. That's the way it is with those who've cast off ignorance like sleep. They don't regard it as anything, nor do they regard its other works as real, but they abandon them like a dream in the night. They value the knowledge of the Father like they value the light. The ignorant have acted like they're asleep; those who've come to knowledge have acted like they've awakened. Good for the one who returns and awakens! Blessed is the one who's opened the eyes of those who can't see! The Holy Spirit hurried after them to revive them. Having given a hand to the one who lay on the ground, it set them up on their feet, because they hadn't yet arisen. It gave them the knowledge of the Father and the revelation of the Son, because when they saw him and heard him, he granted them to taste him and to grasp the beloved Son.

Chapter 1d

1:33. When the Child was revealed, he taught them about God, giving them life and doing his will.
When people started to see, they started to turn to him.
The truth can't be known by those who are deceived by physical appearances, as they can’t see its true form or know it.
The Child came in a physical form, unable to be stopped by anything.
The Child spoke new ideas while revealing the will of God's heart, and brought forward the complete Word.
Light spoke through his mouth, and his voice gave birth to life, and he gave everyone wisdom, kindness, freedom, and the infinite power of the Holy Spirit.
The Child ended the pain and torment of those trapped by Error, people who needed kindness.
He dissolved their pain and gave them knowledge.

1:33. When he was revealed, he taught them about the Father, the uncontainable one, and breathed into them what's in the thought, doing his will. When many had received the light, they turned to him. For the material ones were strangers, who didn't see his form or know him. For he came by means of fleshly form, and nothing could block his path, because incorruptibility can't be grasped. Moreover, he said new things while he spoke about what's in the Father's heart and brought out the complete Word. When the light spoke through his mouth, and by his voice gave birth to life, he gave them thought, wisdom, mercy, salvation, and the Spirit of power from the infinity and sweetness of the Father. He caused punishments and torments to cease, because they led astray into Error and bondage those who needed mercy. He dissolved and confounded them with knowledge. He became:

1:34. He became a path for the lost,
knowledge for the uninformed,
a discovery for seekers,
strength for the weak, and
refreshment for the stained.

1:34. a Way for those who were led astray,\nknowledge for those who were ignorant,\na discovery for those who were searching,\nstrength for those who were wavering, and\npurity for those who were impure.

1:35. Jesus is like a shepherd who left 99 sheep safe at home, and risked his life to go looking for the single one that was lost. When he found it, he celebrated!
Think of 99 pennies- that's a lot to carry around- but 100 pennies come together to make one single dollar. This is a metaphor of God.

1:35. He's the shepherd who left behind the ninety- nine sheep which weren't lost. He went and searched for the one which was lost. He rejoiced when he found it, because ninety-nine is a number expressed with the left hand. However, when the one is found, the numerical sum moves to the right hand. In this way, what needs the one - that is, the whole right hand - draws what it needs, takes it from the left hand, and moves it to the right, so the number becomes one hundred. This is a symbol of the sound of these numbers; this is the Father.

1:36. Even on the Sabbath, the day of rest, he worked and saved the sheep by pulling it out of a pit that it had fallen into, saving its life.
He did that so that you'd understand in your hearts what true rest means.
The Sabbath is not a day when help should stop.
Think about the eternal day, the age of Heaven, at the end of time- where the light will never set because everything is finished and perfect and in Unity.
So speak from your heart because you are that endless day, and the never-ending light lives in you.
Share the truth with those looking for it, and share insights with those who have been led astray.

1:36. Even on the Sabbath, he worked for the sheep which he found fallen in the pit. He saved the life of the sheep, having brought it up from the pit, so that you may know in your hearts - you're children of the knowledge of the heart - what is the Sabbath, on which it isn't right for salvation to be idle, so that you may speak of the day which is above, which has no night, and of the light that doesn't set, because it's complete. Speak then from the heart, because you're the completed day, and the light that doesn't cease dwells within you. Speak of the Truth with those who search for it, and of knowledge with those who've sinned in their Error.

1:37. Help those who are a mess, reach out to those who are sick.
Feed the hungry, and give peace to those who are tired.
Help those who want to stand up, and waken those who are asleep- you are what God is sending.
Your strength will become even stronger.

1:37. Strengthen the feet of those who stumble, and reach out to those who are sick. Feed those who are hungry, and give rest to those who are weary. Raise up those who want to arise, and awaken those who sleep, because you're the understanding that's unsheathed. If strength is like this, it becomes stronger.

1:38. Pay attention to yourselves.
Don't go back to your past mistakes, don’t let yourself be destroyed by your past once you've overcome it and decided it wasn't part of you.
Don't offer a place for negativity, because you've already beaten it.
Don’t hold onto bad parts of yourself.
People who do wrong are nothing, and should be treated more harshly than good people.

1:38. Be concerned about yourselves. Don't be concerned about other things which you've rejected from yourselves. Don't return to eat your vomit. Don't be eaten by worms, because you've already shaken it off. Don't become a dwelling-place for the devil, because you've already brought him to naught. Don't strengthen your obstacles which are collapsing, as though you're a support. For the lawless one is nothing, to be treated more harshly than the just, doing his works among others.

1:39. So, follow God's will, because that's where you come from.
God is kind, and the will of God is Love.
God knows what belongs to you, and you'll find rest.
By your actions, everyone else will know, because you'll carry the essence of God, which God sends everywhere.
When this essence mixes with the physical, it spreads, lifting it calmly above all shapes and sounds.
This essence is not felt with the physical senses, but with the Holy Spirit within you, which seeks out the essence and attracts it to itself.
The Holy Spirit captures the essence, and takes it back to the place where it came from, which has since grown cold, and looks like dirt, but it disappears on touch.
It gets warm if you breathe on it.
The coldness comes from division, but that's why faith came.
Faith destroyed division, and brought Unity back, which is warm with love, so that nothing will be cold ever again.

1:39. Do then the Father's will, because you're from him. For the Father is sweet, and goodness is in his will. He knows what's yours, that you may find rest in them. For by the fruits they know what's yours, because the children of the Father are his fragrance, since they're from the grace of his expression. Because of this, the Father loves his fragrance, and reveals it in every place. And when it mixes with matter, it gives his fragrance to the light, and in tranquility he causes it to rise above every form and every sound. For it's not the ears that smell the fragrance, but it's the Spirit that smells, and draws the fragrance to itself, and sinks down into the Father's fragrance. He shelters it, then, and takes it to the place from which it came, from the first fragrance which has grown cold. It's something in a soul-endowed delusion, like cold water sunk into loose earth. Those who see it think that it's just earth. Afterwards, it dissolves again. If a breath draws it, it becomes warm. So the fragrances which are cold are from the division. Because of this, faith came. It dissolved the division, and it brought the fullness that's warm with love, so that the cold may not return, but rather the unitary thought of completion.

Part 2

Chapter 2a

2:1. This message is about the good news of finding Fullness, which comes to those who ask for help from Heaven.

2:1. This is the Word of the Gospel of the discovery of the fullness, which comes for those who are awaiting the salvation which is coming from above.

2:2. They're waiting for a future where they shine brightly without any darkness.

2:2. The hope for which they're waiting is waiting for those whose image is light with no shadow in it.

2:3. When that Fullness arrives, we won't need physical things, because the endless love of God fulfills our needs. We can't really say how this God will arrive.

2:3. If at that time the fullness comes, the need of matter doesn't come through the infinity of the Father, who comes to give time to the need - although no one can say that the incorruptible one will come like this.

2:4. The knowledge of God grew, and Error had less room.

2:4. But the depth of the Father multiplied, and the thought of Error didn't exist with him.

2:5. It's about getting back up when you've fallen, discovering who will return to the right path, because turning around and fixing things is what we call “changing for the better.”

2:5. It's something that's fallen, which is easily set upright in the discovery of the one who's to come to what he'll return, because the return is called “repentance. ”

2:6-7. When someone changes for the better, God reaches out, so they can find peace. Those in need will recieve forgiveness, and the Word of Fullness.

2:6. Because of this, incorruptibility breathed out.
2:7. It followed after the one who sinned, so that they might rest, because forgiveness is what remains for the light in need, the Word of fullness.

2:8-9. Just like a doctor rushes to the sick because they want to heal, the person who needs help doesn't hide, because they know the doctor has what they need to make them better.

2:8. For the doctor hurries to the place where there's sickness, because that's what he (or she) wants to do.
2:9. The one in need, then, doesn't hide it, because one (the doctor) has what they need.

2:10. In the same way, God needs nothing themselves, but fills others' needs.
God gave from themselves to satisfy what was missing in us, so that we might experience kindness; which we didn't know of when we were ignorant.

2:10. In this way the fullness, which has no need but fills the need, is what he provided from himself to fill up what's needed, so that they might receive grace; because when they were in need, they didn't have grace.

2:11. That's why things get lost when there is no kindness.

2:11. Because of this, a diminishing took place where there is no grace.

2:12. When something that is lost is made whole again, what they need becomes obvious- it's Fullness.

2:12. When what was diminished was restored, what they needed was revealed as fullness.

2:13. This is how the Light of Truth was discovered- it enlightened them because it was the one thing that doesn't change.

2:13. This is the discovery of the light of Truth which enlightened them, because it doesn't change.

2:14. That's why they say Christ is among them: “Seek, and those who are lost will find their way back—and God will care for them with kindness.”

2:14. Because of this, they spoke of Christ in their midst: “Seek, and those who were disturbed will receive a return - and he'll anoint them with ointment. ” The ointment is the mercy of the Father, who will have mercy on them.

2:15. But those who are cared for are those who are fulfilled, because only full containers get the extra care.

2:15. But those whom he anointed are those who have been completed, because full jars are the ones that are anointed.

2:16. If a full container is forgotten, and gets cracked, it might get moldy. Then anything will ruin it.

2:16. But when the anointing of one dissolves, it empties, and the cause of the need is the place where the ointment leaks, because a breath and its power draws it.

2:17. But a full container that's taken care of will be topped off by God.

2:17. But from the one who has no need, no seal is removed, nor is anything emptied, but what it needs is filled again by the Father, who's complete.

Chapter 2b

2:18. God is good and kind.

2:18. He's good.

2:19. God knows all God's creations very well, because God was the one to plant them in Their special garden.

2:19. He knows his plants, because he planted them in his paradise.

2:20. Now, God's garden is a place for rest.

2:20. Now his paradise is a place of rest.

2:21. This is God's plan, and what God thinks.

2:21. This is the completion in the Father's thought, and these are the words of his meditation.

2:22. Every one of God's individual words is a reflection of God's Will, which reveals the whole Word.

2:22. Each of his words is the work of his one will in the revelation of his Word.

2:23. The Word was the first creation. They were first in God's thought, then God revealed them, along with a Mind who spoke the Word with a silent grace.

2:23. When they were still in the depths of his thought, the Word - which was the first to come out - revealed them along with a mind that speaks the one Word in a silent grace.

2:24. The Mind was called “The Initial Thought” because they existed within God even before being shown to the world.

2:24. He was called “the Thought,” since they were in it before being revealed.

2:25. "The Initial Thought" was the first to be created when God chose.

2:25. It happened, then, that he was the first to come out at the time when it pleased the one who wanted it.

2:26. Now, God rests and is happy, having completed Their Will.

2:26. Now the Father rests in his will, and is pleased with it.

2:27. Nothing exists without God, and nothing happens without the Will of God, which is beyond understanding.

2:27. Nothing happens without him, nor does anything happen without the will of the Father, but his will is incomprehensible.

2:28. God's impact is Will, which no one can fully comprehend.
You cannot grasp God with the intellect.
When God Wills, it happens, even if it doesn’t make sense to people before they comprehend the greatness of the decision.

2:28. His trace is the will, and no one can know him, nor does he exist for people to scrutinize so that they might grasp him, but when he wills, what he wills is this - even if the sight doesn't please them in any way before God - the will of the Father, because he knows the beginning of all of them, and their end, for in the end he'll greet them directly.

2:29. The ultimate goal is understanding God, who was once hidden; this is the Heavenly parent, the source from where everything began, and where everything will return.

2:29. Now the end is receiving knowledge of the one who's hidden; this is the Father, from whom the beginning has come, and to whom all who've come out from him will return.

2:30. God was revealed for beauty and joy.

2:30. They were revealed for the glory and the joy of his name.

Chapter 3

3:1. The Name of God is the Child.

3:1. Now the name of the Father is the Son.

3:2. God is the one who named and gave birth to the Child.

3:2. He's the one who first gave a name to the one who comes out from him, who was himself, and he gave birth to him as a Son.

3:3. God gave the Child the Name of God.

3:3. He gave him his name which belonged to him.

3:4. God has given everything to the Child.

3:4. He's the one to whom everything around the Father belongs.

3:5. The Child and The Name belong to God.

3:5. The name and the Son are his.

3:6. It's possible to meet the Child, but the Name is invisible. It is the secret of what can't be seen, only understood by those who learn to listen.

3:6. It's possible for him to be seen; the name, however, is invisible, because it alone is the mystery of the invisible which comes to ears that are filled completely with it by him.

3:7. The Name isn't said aloud, but is shown through the Child.

3:7. For indeed, the Father's name isn't spoken, but it's revealed through a Son.

3:8. This makes the Name great.

3:8. In this way, then, the name is great.

3:9. No one should be allowed to say The Name besides whoever owns it, and Their Children- who have The Name live in them, and who rest in God.
Since God wasn't created and has always existed, God created the Child by Themself before everything else was made.
God made the Name as everyone's guide, established with complete authority.

3:9. Who, then, will be able to utter a name for him, the great name, except him alone to whom the name belongs, and the children of the name, those in whom the Father's name rests, and who themselves, in turn, rest in his name? Since the Father is unbegotten, it's he alone who gave birth to him for himself as a name, before he had made the generations, so that the Father's name might be over their head as Lord, which is the true name, confirmed in his command in complete power.

3:10. The Name isn't a spoken a word; it's something entirely separate that can't be seen.

3:10. For the name isn't from words and naming; the name, rather, is invisible.

3:11. God gave a special name to the Child.

3:11. He gave a name to him alone.

3:12. Only the Child sees God.
God is the only one with an ability to give the Child a name.
What doesn't exist doesn't have a name.

3:12. He alone sees him, he alone having the power to give him a name, because whoever doesn't exist has no name.

*Too many pronouns to be able to confidently assume what this is saying, so I went with most makes sense in context of the text.

3:13. How could you even name something that doesn't exist?
But the Child exists with the Name, and only he knows it.

3:13. For what name will they give one who doesn't exist? But the one who exists, exists also with his name, and he alone knows it, and he's given a name to him alone.

3:14. This is God, God's Name is the Child.

3:14. This is the Father; his name is the Son.

3:15. God didn't keep it a secret, but revealed it.

3:15. He didn't hide it within, then, but it existed.

3:16. The Child alone showed the Name.

3:16. The Son alone gave a name.

3:17. The Name of God is the beloved Child, and the Name belongs to God.

3:17. The name, then, belongs to the Father, as the name of the Father is the beloved Son.

3:18. Where else could the Child get a name, if not from God?

3:18. Where, indeed, would he find a name, except from the Father?

3:19. You might think, "Who names someone who existed before them- children don't name their parents." So, first, we should understand what the name represents.

3:19. But doubtless one will ask their neighbor, “Who is it who'll give a name to the one who existed before them, as if offspring didn't receive a name from those who gave them birth?” First, then, it's right for us to consider what the name is.

3:20. It's the true name, given by God, because it's the right name.

3:20. It's the true name, the name from the Father, because it's the proper name.

3:21. He didn't just borrow the name, unlike people, who are named made-up names.

3:21. So he didn't receive the name on loan, the way others do, according to the form in which each one will be produced.

3:22. This is the correct name.

3:22. This, then, is the proper name.

3:23. God gave the name to no one else.

3:23. There's no one else who gave it to him.

3:24-25. It remained unknown until the Child, the one who's perfect, was able to say it correctly, and see.

3:25. And it's he who has the power to speak his name and to see him.
3:24. But he's unnameable, indescribable, until the time when he who's complete spoke of him alone.

3:26. God approved of the Child being the Name, so the Child emerged, and shared God's secrets, knowing that the God is absolute goodness.

3:26. So when it pleased him that his beloved name should be his Son, and he gave the name to him who came out from the depth, he disclosed his secrets, knowing that the Father is without evil.

3:27. God sent the Child to talk about Heaven, the resting place he came from, and to praise the fullness and greatness of the Name, and God's kindness.

3:27. Because of this, he brought him out so that he might speak about the place, and his resting place from which he had come, and to glorify the fullness, the greatness of his name, and the Father's sweetness.

Chapter 4

4:1. Everyone will talk about their source, and will be eager to go back to where they found peace and healing, to again experience the comfort and growth they got from that place.

4:1. Each one will speak about the place from which they came, and they'll hurry to return again to the place where they received their restoration to receive from the place where they were, receiving a taste from that place and receiving nourishment, receiving growth.

4:2. Knowing their source and origin is their fullness.

4:2. And their place of rest is their fullness.

4:3. Every being that comes from God are fullness-es, and their roots down to God is what allows them to grow.

4:3. All that have emanated from the Father, then, are fullnesses, and the roots of all that have emanated from him are within the one who caused them all to grow.

4:4. God determines destiny.

4:4. He gave them their destinies.

4:5. Each being becomes manifested, shaped by their own thinking, as they connect with their origin, which elevates them to the very heights of God.

4:5. Then each one was revealed, so that through their own thought […] for the place to which they send their thought is their root, which takes them up through all the heights, up to the Father.

4:6. They welcome the peace of God, and remain there, suspended, almost like they are giving God kisses.

4:6. They embrace his head, which is rest for them, and they're grasped, approaching him, as though to say that they receive his expression by means of kisses.

4:7. But, they don't talk about it like this, because they don't want to brag or steal God's glory. They do not see God as insignificant or harsh, but as kind, calm, and gentle.

4:7. But they're not revealed in this way, because they neither exalted themselves, nor wanted the Father's glory, nor did they think of him as trivial or harsh or wrathful; but he's without evil, unperturbed, and sweet.

4:8. God knows all places before they are created, and God doesn't need to be taught.

4:8. He knows every realm before they've come into existence, and he has no need to be instructed.

4:9. This describes those who have found a piece of Heaven, and only wait for the fullness of God, who will be there for them.

4:9. This is the way of those who possess something of the immeasurable greatness from above, as they wait for the complete one alone, who's a Mother for them.

4:10. They won't experience suffering, and they won't die, but instead, they'll find peace in God, and never be confused about the Truth.

4:10. And they don't go down to Hades, nor do they have envy or groaning, nor death within them, but they rest in the one who rests, not striving nor twisting around in the search for Truth.

4:11. They themselves embody Truth. God is within them, and they are within God, and they are complete.

4:11. But they themselves are the Truth, and the Father is within them, and they're in the Father, being complete.

4:12. They are One with God.

4:12. They're undivided from the truly good one.

4:13. They have no desires, but are refreshed by the Spirit.

4:13. They don't need anything, but they rest, refreshed in the Spirit.

4:14. They listen to their root.

4:14. And they'll listen to their root.

4:15. They dedicate themselves to their origins. They will not suffer any loss to their soul.

4:15. They'll devote themselves to those things that they'll find in their root and not suffer loss to their soul.

4:16. This is the place of happiness; this is where they belong.

4:16. This is the place of the blessed; this is their place.

4:17. As for everyone else, they should try to understand their situation.
I have reached this place of peace, and it is not my place to say more.
Rather, I will stay here, and continually serve God and my siblings on Earth, those who are loved and filled by God.

4:17. As for the others, then, may they know, where they're at, that it's not right for me, having come to the place of rest, to say anything else, but I'll come to be in it, and will devote myself continually to the Father of all and the true brothers (and sisters), those upon whom the Father's love is emptied and in whose midst there is no need.

4:18. These are the ones who manifest Truth. They exist in eternal life, and they talk about the perfect light that comes from God's heart.

4:18. They're the ones who are revealed in Truth; they exist in the true eternal life, and they speak of the light that's complete and that's filled with the Father's seed, and that's in his heart and in the fullness.

4:19. The Spirit celebrates this, praising God, because God is kind.

4:19. His Spirit rejoices in it, and glorifies the one in whom it existed, because he's good.

4:20. God's children are filled, worthy of the Name.

4:20. And his children are complete, and worthy of his name, because he's the Father.

4:21. God loves those children.

4:21. It's children like this that he loves.

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