ended [as] the Triple-Power into the Spaces of Autogenes, the
Self-generated One, and [these Spaces] beheld the grace of the
Eternities of Light which had been given unto them, and they rejoiced
because that-which-is had come among them.
Then they opened the firmaments and the Light descended below to the
lower regions and to those who were without form, having no [true]
likeness. It was thus that they got the likeness of the Light for
themselves. Some rejoiced because the Light had come to them, and that
they had been made rich thereby. Others mourned because they were made
poor and that which [they thought] they had was taken away from them.
Thus came He, who went forth full of grace, and was taken captive with
a captivity (20). A light of glory was given to the aeons who had
received the Spark, and guardian spirits were sent to them who are
Gamanel, Etrempsouchos, and Agramas, and those who are with them. They
bring help to those who have believed in the Spark of Light.
Now in the Space of the Indivisible Atom are twelve Founts, above which
are the twelve Paternities who surround the Indivisible [Queen] like
Deeps or like Skies and make for Her a crown in which is every kind of
life: all modes of Triple-powered life, of Uncontainable life, of
Infinite life, of Ineffable life, of Silent life, of Unknown life, of
Solitary life, of Unshakable life, of First-manifested life, of
Self-born life, of True life. All is therein. Every species is in it,
all Gnoses and every power which has received the Light, yea, all Mind
manifests itself therein. This is the Crown which the Father of the
Universe has placed upon the Indivisible [Queen] with three hundred and
sixty-five kinds in it, brilliant and filling the Universe with an
incorruptible and unfailing light. This is the Crown which crowns all
dominion, the Crown that the Deathless pray for, and by it and in it
they will become Invisible Ones [in the world beyond manifestation] on
the Day of Joy, who by the Will of the Inscrutable One have from the
first been manifested, that is to say, Protia, Pantia, Pangenia, and
their company. Then shall all the Invisible Eternities receive from
Him their crown, so that they may cast themselves among the Invisibles,
who shall receive there their crown in the Crown of the Indivisible
[Queen], and the Universe shall receive its perfection of incorruption.
Because of this it is that those who have taken bodies pray, desiring
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