s also called him "All-powered." He
is the Servant of the AEons and serves the Fullnesses (19). And the
Father sealed the Man His Son in their interior so that they might know
Him interiorly, and the Word moved them to contemplate the Invisible
One beyond knowledge, and they gave glory to this One and Only One, to
the Concept which is in Him and to the Intelligible Word, praising
these Three who are One, because by Him have they been made essential
beings. The Father took their total image and made of it a City or a
Man and figured in Him all those of the Pleroma, that is to say, all
the powers. Each one of them knew his image in the City, for everyone
of the myriads of glories found himself in the Man or City of the
Father which is in the Pleroma. The Father took His radiant glory and
made thereof an outer vesture for the Man....
He created in Him the type of the Temple of the Pleroma. He made His
shoulders, which came out one from the other, after the type of those
hundred myriads of powers, less four myriads. He created His fingers
and toes like the two Decads, the hidden Decad and the manifest Decad.
He created His organ like the Monad concealed in Setheus. He created
the great reins like Setheus. He made His breast like the Interior of
the Temple and His feet after the type of the Solitary and Unknowable
Ones who serve the Pleroma, rejoicing with those that rejoice. He made
His limbs after the type of the Deep which encloses three hundred and
sixty-five Paternities after the type of the Paternities. He fashioned
His hair after the type of the Worlds of the Pleroma and filled Him
with wisdom like the Universal Wisdom, and filled Him with interior
mystery like Setheus and with exterior mystery like the Indivisible
[Body]. Incomprehensible created He Him like the Incomprehensible One,
who is in every Space, unique in the Pleroma. His sides created He
after the type of the Four Gates and His two thighs after the type of
the Myriarchs who are to the right and left, and His members after the
type of those who go forth and those who enter. He created companions
surrounding Him after the type of concealed mysteries....
[This was the Man or City that the Pleromata beheld in the Light-Spark
and saw their likenesses therein. They fashioned the Man called
Pantomorphos in His likeness, or clothed the Light-Spark in the
Star-body.]
The Indivisible Point sent the Light-Spark without the Pleroma, and
[He] desc
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