bandon the body that they may receive the crown laid up for them in
the Incorruptible Eternity.
This is the Indivisible [Queen and Mother], the first aeon of all, who
has been given all good things by Him who is above all good things, and
she has been given the Immeasurable Deep, wherein are found innumerable
Paternities, whereof is the Ennead without seal-mark and having in her
the seal-marks of all creatures, and by whom the Ennead emanates twelve
Enneads. She [the Indivisible Mother it is] who has in the midst a
Space called "The Land productive of Gods," or "The Land which gives
birth to the Gods" (21). This is the land of which it has been said,
"He who ploughs his soil shall be satisfied with bread and he shall
make large his threshing floor," and also, "The Master of the Field,
when they shall plough it, shall possess all good things." And all
those Powers which are in this land which brought forth the God have
received the Crown. That is why they know, because of the Crown upon
their heads, if the Inheritors of the Kingdom of Light have [? in
truth] been born from the Indivisible Body or not: that is, from Her
who is the Universal Mother (22). She has within Her seven Wisdoms,
nine Enneads, ten Decads, and in the midst a great Basket is revealed.
A mighty Invisible [Hierarch] stands above it with a mighty Ingenerable
[Hierarch] and a mighty Unbounded [Hierarch], each one
triple-countenanced, and the prayer, the blessing, and the hymn of
creatures are given place in this Basket which is in the midst of the
Universal Mother, in the midst of the seven Wisdoms, in the midst of
the nine Enneads, and in the midst of the ten Decads. For all these
[creatures] stand upright in the Basket, made perfect by the Fruit of
the AEons, He who has been ordained for them by the Alone-begotten
concealed in the Indivisible [Atom]. He [the Fruit of the AEons] has a
Fount before Him surrounded by twelve Holy Ones, each one wearing a
Crown on his head and having twelve powers, who surround Him within,
praising the Alone-begotten king and crying, "It is because of Thee
that we ray forth glory, and it is by Thee that we behold the Father of
the Universe, AAA, +OOO+ (23), and the Mother of all the good, She who
is hidden in every space"--that is to say, the contriving thought
(Epinoia) of all the Eternities, the conceiving thought of all gods and
of all lords--"She is the Gnosis of all the Unseen beings, and Thy
Image is the Mothe
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