omplish the warfare imposed upon him, she gave him the
first-fruits of the Sonship concealed in her that he might be able to
become a Triple-Power. He received the Vow of the Sonship because the
Universe (30) had been sold [? into slavery], and took upon him the
warfare entrusted to him and made arise all that was pure in matter. A
world made he, an aeon, a town; the world which is called
"Incorruptibility" and "Jerusalem." It is also called "The New Earth,"
and "Self-Perfect," and "Without King." This earth is an earth that
brings forth gods, a life-giving earth indeed. This is the earth that
the Mother (? Phaneia) asked to have established. That is why she (?
the Mother Above) has placed orders or hierarchy in this earth and has
placed in it Providence and Love. This is the earth of which it has
been written, "The earth which drank the rain a multitude of times":
that is to say, which has multiplied the light in her multitudes and
multitudes of times, since the (light) went forth until its return;
that is to say, it is that from which the Man is named "Sensible." He
is fashioned, He has been created according to the type of this earth,
He who has been saved from His Self dispersion by the Protogennetor
(31). Because of that, the Father of all those of the Universe, He who
has no [bridal] bed has sent [Him,? the Man] a crown bearing the names
of all those of the Universe, whether Infinite or Ineffable, or
Uncontainable, or Incorruptible, or Unknown, or Solitary, or
All-powerful, or Indivisible. This is the crown of which it is
written, "They gave it unto Solomon on the day of his exultation of
heart."
The First Monad sent Him [the Man] an ineffable vesture which is all
Light, all Life, all Love, all Hope, all Faith, all Wisdom, all Gnosis,
all Truth, all Peace, all Witness, all Universal Mother, all Universal
Mystery, all Fount, all Universal Perfection, all Invisible, all
Unknown, all Infinite, all Ineffable, all Abyss, all Uncontainable, all
Fullness, all Silence, all Unshakable, all Unengendered, all Universal
Solitary, all Monad, all Ennead, all Dodecad, all Ogdoad, all Decad,
all Hebdomad, all Hexad, all Pentad, all Tetrad, all Triad, all Dyad,
all Monad. The whole Universe is in it, and the Universe has found
itself therein and knows itself therein (29). It gave light to all in
its ineffable light, and it was given myriads and myriads of powers, so
that the Universe might be established once and for
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