Selections from “Pistis Sophia” – Chapters 73 -76, Part 2 of 2

Let us continue with selections from Chapters 75 and 76 of Pistis Sophia. Here, Pistis Sophia is gravely concerned that she will have to return to the lower aeons and face the darkness again. However, the First Mystery an embodiment of Lord Jesus Christ (vegetarian) tells her not to worry but to “sing praises to the Light” and He will come to help her.

“ […] How Sophia will know that the time of her final deliverance has come.

And I answered and said unto her: ‘If Thou see the gate of the Treasury of the Great Light which is opened after the thirteenth æon, and that is the left [one], when that gate is opened, then are the three times completed.’ Pistis Sophia again answered and said: ‘O Light, by what shall I know, for I am in this region, that that gate is opened?’

What will come to pass at that time.

And I answered and said to her: ‘When that gate is opened, they who are in all the æons will know because of the Great Light which will obtain in all their regions. But see, I have now settled that they shall venture no ill against thee, until the three times are completed. And thou will have the power of going down into their twelve æons, when it pleases thee, and also of returning and going into thy region, which is below the thirteenth æon, and in which thou now are. But thou will not have the power of passing through the gate of the Height which is in the thirteenth æon, so as to enter into thy region whence thou did come down. Moreover, if then the three times are completed, Self-willed and all his rulers will again constrain thee, to take thy light from thee, being enraged against thee and thinking that thou have imprisoned his power in the chaos, and thinking that thou have taken its light from it. He will then be embittered against thee, to take from thee thy light, in order that he may send it down into the chaos and it may get down to that emanation of his, so that it may be able to come up out of the chaos and go to his region. Adamas will attempt this. But I will take all thy powers from him and give them unto thee, and I will come to take them. Now, therefore, if they constrain thee at that time, then sing praises to the Light, and I will not delay to help thee. And I will quickly come to thee to the regions which are below thee. And I will come down to their regions to take their light from them. And I will come to this region whither I have removed thee, and which is below the thirteenth æon, until I bring thee to thy region whence thou are come.’ It came to pass then, when Pistis Sophia had heard me say these words unto her, that she rejoiced with great joy. […]”