their return once
more within; the stretching forth of their hands establishes them; the
hearing of their ears is the intuition in their hearts; the union of
their limbs is the regathering of the dispersal of Israel; their
self-understanding is their contemplation of the Logos; the writing
upon their fingers is the number which has gone forth, even as it is
written, "He counteth the number of the Stars and calleth them all by
their names."
And the whole union was made by the Logos Demiourgos with those who had
come out of the turmoil that had been: altogether they became one and
the same body, as it has been written, "They have all become one and
the same body in this One and Only One." Then this Logos Demiourgos
became a mighty God, Lord, Saviour, Christ, King, the Good, Father,
Mother. This is He whose work was good: He was glorified and became
Father to those that believed: He became Law in Aphredonia and mighty.
Then went forth Pandelos [All-manifest]; she had a crown on her head,
and she placed it upon them who had believed (29).
The Power of the AEons [? the Indivisible Queen, the Mother within the
Pleroma] ordered the Hierarchy of the World of the Virgin Mother
[Phaneia, the Mother without the Pleroma, she who brings into
manifestation] according to the Order of the Inner Space. She placed
in it the Light-Spark after the pattern of the Monad and placed therein
the concealment which surrounds Him. She ordained the Propator after
the Order of the Indivisible Body and the twelve Holy Ones which
surround it, having crowns on their heads and seals of glory in their
right hands, after the type found in the Indivisible Point. In the
midst of these is Love; a face of the Triple-Power is in the Fount, and
there is a Basket which twelve Paternities surround, in whom a Sonship
is concealed.
She ordained the Autopator according to the order of the Ennead without
seal-mark and gave him authority over all that is only self-fathered,
and gave him a crown of all-glory and love, and Peace, Truth, and
myriads of powers, so that he might gather together those who had been
dispersed by the troubling which had taken place when the [Light Spark]
went forth with joy. As for the Prince of the Universe, he who has the
triple-power to make alive and to destroy, she ordained the Son
Protogennetor after the order of the Triple-Power. She gave him a
ninefold Ennead and five tenfold Decads, and that he might have power
to acc
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