Thursday, January 3, 2008

Apocryphon of John (II, 1) 31.25-37, 32.1-5

"... And
behold, now I shall go up to the perfect
aeon. I have completed everything for you
in your hearing. And I
have said everything to you that you might write
them down and give them secretly to your fellow spirits,
for this is the mystery of the immovable race."

And the savior presented these things to him that
he might write them down and keep them
secure. And he said to him, "Cursed be
everyone who will exchange these things for a gift
or for food or for
drink or for clothing or for any other such thing."
And these things were presented to him
in a mystery, and immediately
he disappeared from him.
And he went to his fellow disciples and related
to them what the savior had told him.