He is the First Father of all things, the First Eternal,
the King of those that None can Touch; He in whom all things lose
themselves, He who has given all things form within Himself; the Space
which has grown from Itself, He who is born of Himself, the Abyss of
all being, the Great and True One who is in the Deep; He in whom the
Fullnesses (Pleromata) did come, and even they are silent before Him.
They have not named Him, because Unnamable and beyond thought is He,
that First Fount whose Eternity stretches through all Spaces, that
First Tone (2) whereby all things hearken and understand. He it is
whose limbs make a myriad, myriad Powers, and every Power is a being in
itself.

The Second Space is that which is called Creator, Father, Word, Source,
Mind, Man, Eternal, Infinite. He is the Pillar, the Overseer, the
Father of all. He it is upon whose Head the aeons form a crown, darting
forth their rays. The Fullness of His Countenance is unknown to the
external worlds who seek His Face, for evermore yearning to know It;
for unto them His Word has run forth and to behold It is their desire.
The Light of His Eyes pierces to the spaces of the external Pleroma and
the Word goes forth from His Mouth to those who dwell in Heaven and to
those who dwell beneath it. The hairs of His Head are the number of
the Hidden Worlds, and the Features of His Face are the type of the
Eternities; the hairs of His Beard are the number of the External
Worlds. The stretching out of His Hands is the manifestation of the
Cross (3). The strain of the Cross is the Ennead, the Ninefold Being.
He who springs up [? or is nailed] to the right and to the left of the
Cross is the Man whom no man can comprehend. He is the Father, the
Fount whence Silence wells, He for whom the Quest is everywhere. The
Father is He from whom went forth the Monad and the Spark of Light, and
before this all the Worlds were dark nothings. For it is that Spark of
Light which has placed all things in the rays of Its Splendour, so they
have received Knowledge [Gnosis], Life, Hope, Peace, Faith, Love and
Resurrection, the Second Birth and the Seal. Now these things are the
Ennead, the Ninefold Being, which has come forth from the Father
without beginning, who alone has been His own Father and His own
Mother, whose Pleroma surrounds the twelve (4) Deeps.

The First Deep is the Universal Fount, from whom all fountains have
gone forth.

The Second Deep is the Universal Wi