One, A+O+ and A+O+. The meaning of XMI
is unknown. It has been suggested that it is (with EIC +THEOS+) a
symbol of the Trinity in Unity, or a veil of the Divine Name.

(40) The terms I have translated as "Sole Unstainable," "Sole
[Foundation]-stone of Adamant" are "Amiantos," "Adamantos." Besides
meaning "unstainable," Amiantos was the name of a pale green stone.
Readers interested in the legend of the Graal will recall that the
Graal is represented as a green stone in the "Parzival" of Von
Eschenbach. "Adamantos" is "diamond." Here and in the account of the
Monad as the Metropolis of Monogenes, "filled with men of every race
and with all the statues of the king," there is a curious parallel to
be found to a happening in the life of Saint Theresa. "Being once in
prayer," she says, "the Diamond was represented to me like a flash;
although I saw nothing formed, still, it was a representation with all
clearness how all things are seen in God, and how all are contained in
Him.... Let us say that the Divinity is like a very lustrous Diamond,
larger than all the world, or like a mirror--and all that we do is seen
in this Diamond, it being so fashioned that it includes everything
within itself, because there is nothing but what is contained in this
magnitude."

I have ventured to insert [Foundation] because I think that there is a
punning allusion to "Adamas." _Cp._ Naasene Document: "The 'rock'
means Adamas. This is the corner-stone ... which I insert in the
foundation of Zion. By this he means allegorically the plasm of man.
For Adamas, who is inserted in the inner Man, and the foundations of
Zion are ... the wall and palisade (_sc._ Horos) in which is the inner
Man."

(41) The prayer seems to be for the transmutation of the members of the
order by mystical marriages with their archetypal "selves," that the
mysteries of the Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension, and of the
Descent of the Paraclete may be realised after a certain manner.

(42) Compare this passage with what has already been said concerning an
attempt to form an Ideal Order. "A place of Metanoia" implies here a
radical change of the whole being rather than "repentance" as
ordinarily understood. The "topos" of Autogenes, the Self-begotten,
was the first station of the journey of the Light-Spark without the
Pleroma, and is the last station of the return within.

The extant "Gospel of Mary" (Codex Akhmim), which was "reviewed" by
Irenaeus, and w