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CHAPTER 73
1. And when Mary had said this, the First Mystery said unto her, "Well said, finely, Mary,
blessed one."
2. And he continued again in the discourse and said unto the disciples: "Sophia again
continued in this song and said:

3. "'The Light hath become my saviour.
4. "'And it hath changed my darkness into light, and it has rent the chaos which
surrounded me and girded me with light.'"
5. It came to pass then, when the First Mystery had finished saying these words,
that Martha came forward and said: "My Lord, thy power hath prophesied

aforetime through David concerning these words:
6. "'The Lord hath become my helper.
7. "'He hath changed my lamentation into joy; he hath rent my mourning-robe and
girded me with joy.'"
8. And it came to pass when the First Mystery had heard Martha speak these words, that
he said: "Well said, and finely, Martha."

9. And the First Mystery continued again and said unto the disciples: "Pistis Sophia again
continued in the song and said:
10. "'My power, sing praises to the Light and forget not all the powers of the Light

which it hath given unto thee.
11. "'And the powers which are in thee, sing praises to the name of his holy mystery;
12. "'Who forgiveth all thy transgression, who saveth thee from all the afflictions
with which the emanations of Self-willed have constrained thee;
13. "'Who hath saved thy light from the emanations of Self-willed which belong to
destruction; who hath wreathed thee with light in his compassion, until he saved

thee;
14. "'Who hath filled thee with purified light; and thy beginning will renew itself as
an invisible of the Height.'
15. "With these words Pistis Sophia sang praises, because she was saved and remembered

all things which I had done unto her."

CHAPTER 74
1. It came to pass then, when the First Mystery had finished setting forth these words unto
the disciples, that he said unto them: "Who hath understood the solution of these
words, let him come forward and say it in openness."
2. Mary again came forward and said: "My Lord, concerning these words with which Pistis

Sophia hath sung praises, thus thy light-power prophesied them through David: