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receive the mystery of that Thrice-spiritual, hath the power to go down into all orders
which are below him; but he hath not the power to go into the height into the orders
which are above him, that is into all the orders of the space of the Ineffable.
7. "And he who hath received the mystery of the second Thrice-spiritual, hath the power
to go into all the orders of the first Thrice-spiritual and to pass through them all and all
their orders which are in them; but he hath not the power to go into the higher orders
of the third Thrice-spiritual.
8. "And he who hath received the mystery of the third Thrice-spiritual, which ruleth over
the three Thrice-spirituals and the three spaces of the First Mystery all together, [hath
the power to go into all the orders which are below him]; but he hath not the power to
go into the height into the orders which are above. him, that is into the orders of the
space of the Ineffable.
9. "And he who hath received the master-mystery of the First Mystery of the Ineffable,
that is the twelve mysteries of the First Mystery all together, which rule over all the
spaces of the First Mystery, he, therefore, who shall receive that mystery, hath the
power to pass through all the orders of the spaces of the three Thrice-spirituals and the
three spaces of the First Mystery and all their orders, and hath the power to pass
through all the orders of the inheritances of the Light, to pass through them from
without within and from within without and from above below and from below above
and from the height to the depth and from the depth to the height and from the length
to the breadth and from the breadth to the length; in a word, he hath the power to pass
through all the regions of the inheritances of the Light, and he hath the power to bide in
the region where he pleaseth, in the Inheritance of the Light-kingdom.
10. "And amēn, I say unto you: That man will at the dissolution of the world be king over all
the orders of the Inheritance of the Light. And he who shall receive that mystery of the
Ineffable which I am.
11. "That mystery knoweth why the darkness hath arisen and why the light hath arisen.
12. "And that mystery knoweth why the darkness of the darknesses hath arisen and why the
light of the lights hath arisen.
13. "And that mystery knoweth why the chaos hath arisen and why the treasury of the light
hath arisen.
14. "And that mystery knoweth why the judgments have arisen and why the light-land and
the region of the inheritances of the light have arisen.
15. "And that mystery knoweth why the chastisements of the sinners have arisen and why
the rest of the kingdom of the light hath arisen.
16. "And that mystery knoweth why the sinners have arisen and why the inheritances of the
light have arisen.
17. "And that mystery knoweth why the impious have arisen and why the good have arisen.