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CHAPTER 95
1. It came to pass then, when Jesus had heard Mary say these words and knew that the
disciples had heard and had begun to let go, that he encouraged them and said unto
them: "Grieve no more, my disciples, concerning the mystery of, the Ineffable, thinking
that ye will not understand it. Amēn, I say unto you: That mystery is yours, and every

one's who will give ear unto you, so that they renounce this whole world and the whole
matter therein and renounce all the evil thoughts therein and renounce all the cares of
this æon.
2. "Now, therefore, I say unto you: For every one who will renounce the whole world and
all therein and will submit himself to the godhead, that mystery is far easier than all the

mysteries of the Light-kingdom and it is sooner to understand than them all and it is
easier [?] than them all. He who reacheth unto the gnosis of that mystery, renounceth
this whole world and all the cares therein.
3. "For this cause have I said to you aforetime: 'All ye who are heavy under your burden,
come hither unto me, and I will quicken you. For my burden is easy and my yoke is soft.'
Now, therefore, he who will receive that mystery, renounceth the whole world and the

cares of all the matter therein. For this cause, therefore, my disciples, grieve not,
thinking that ye will not understand that mystery. Amēn, I say unto you: That mystery is
far sooner to understand than all mysteries. And amēn, I say unto you: That mystery is
yours and every one's who will renounce the whole world and the whole matter therein.

4. "Now, therefore, hearken, my disciples and my companions and my brethren, that I may
urge you on to the gnosis of the mystery of the Ineffable concerning which I discourse
with you, because I have in Booth gotten as far as to tell you the whole gnosis at the
expansion of the universe; for the expansion of the universe is its gnosis.
5. "But now then hearken that I may discourse with you progressively concerning the
gnosis of that mystery.

6. "That mystery knoweth wherefor the five Helpers have rent themselves asunder and
wherefor they have come forth from the Fatherless [pl.].
7. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor the great Light of lights hath rent itself asunder
and wherefor it hath come forth from the Fatherless.

8. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor the first Commandment hath rent itself asunder
and wherefor it hath divided itself into the seven mysteries and wherefor it is named
the first Commandment and wherefor it hath come forth from the Fatherless.
9. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor the Great Light of the Impressions of the Light
hath rent itself asunder and wherefor it hath set itself up without emanations and
wherefor it hath come forth from the Fatherless.

10. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor the First Mystery, that is the four-and-twentieth
mystery from without, hath rent itself asunder and wherefor it imitated in itself the