[...] he said,
"I came to make [the things below]
like the things [above, and the things]
outside like those [inside. I came to unite]
them in the place." [...]
here through [types ...].
Those who say, "[There is a heavenly man and]
there is one above him" are wrong.
– For it is the first of these two heavenly [men], the one who is revealed,
that they call
"the one who is below"; and he to whom the hidden belongs
is (supposed to be) that one who is above him.
For it would be better for them to say, "The inner
and the outer, and what
is outside the outer". Because of this the
lord called destruction the "the outer darkness":
there is not another outside of it. He said,
"My father who is in secret". He said,
"Go into your (sg.) chamber and shut
the door behind you, and pray to your father
who is in secret" (Mt 6:6), the one who is
within them all. But that which is within
them all is the fullness.
Beyond it, there is nothing else within it.
This is that of which they say, "That which is
above them".
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Philip (II, 3) 67.30-38, 68.1-17
labels: darkness, fullness, Gospel of Philip, heaven, outer darkness, Philip, secrecy, the Father