Page 47 - Demo

33CHAPTER 301. It came to pass then, when Jesus had said this unto his disciples, that Mary came forward and said: \of the four-and-twenty emanations, how then is she not in their region? But thou hast said: 'I found her below the thirteenth %u00e6on.'\THE STORY OF PISTIS SOPHIA2. And Jesus answered and said unto his disciples: \in the thirteenth %u00e6on, in the region of all her brethren the invisibles, that is the fourand-twenty emanations of the great Invisible, -- it came to pass then by command of the First Mystery that Pistis Sophia gazed into the height. She saw the light of the veil of the Treasury of the Light, and she longed to reach to that region, and she could not reach to that region. But she ceased to perform the mystery of the thirteenth %u00e6on, and sang praises to the light of the height, which she had seen in the light of the veil of the Treasury of the Light.3. \rulers in the twelve %u00e6ons, who are below, hated her, because she had ceased from their mysteries, and because she had desired to go into the height and be above them all. For this cause then they were enraged against her and hated her, [as did] the great triplepowered Self-willed, that is the third triple-power, who is in the thirteenth %u00e6on, he who had become disobedient, in as much as he had not emanated the whole purification of his power in him, and had not given the purification of his light at the time when the rulers gave their purification, in that he desired to rule over the whole thirteenth %u00e6on and those who are below it.4. \Sophia, who is above them, and hated her exceedingly, that the great triple-powered Self-willed, of whom I have just now told you, joined himself to the rulers of the twelve %u00e6ons, and also was enraged against Pistis Sophia and hated her exceedingly, because she had thought to go to the light which is higher than her. 5. And he emanated out of himself a great lion-faced power, and out of his matter in him he emanated a host of other very violent material emanations, and sent them into the regions below, to the parts of the chaos, in order that they might there lie in wait for Pistis Sophia and take away her power out of her, because she thought to go to the height which is above them all, and moreover she had ceased to perform their mystery, and lamented continuously and sought after the light which she had seen. And the rulers who abide, or persist, in performing the mystery, hated her, and all the guards who are at the gates of the %u00e6ons, hated her also.6. \triple-powered Self-willed, who is one of the three triple-powers, pursued Sophia in the