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21. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor the four-and-twenty myriads of Praise-singers
have rent themselves asunder and wherefor they have extended themselves outside the
veil of the First Mystery, which is the twin-mystery, that which looketh within and
without, of the One and Only, the Ineffable, and wherefor they have come forth from
the Fatherless.
22. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor all the Uncontainables have rent themselves
asunder--[those], which I have just named, which are in the regions of the second space
of the Ineffable, which is the space of the First Mystery, and wherefor those
Uncontainables and Boundless have come forth from the Fatherless.
23. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor the four-and-twenty mysteries of the first Thrice-
spiritual have rent themselves asunder and wherefor they are called the four-and-
twenty spaces of the first Thrice-spiritual and wherefor they have come forth from the
second Thrice-spiritual.
24. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor the four-and-twenty mysteries of the second
Thrice-spiritual have rent themselves asunder and wherefor they have come forth from
the third Thrice-spiritual.
25. "And that mystery knoweth why the four-and-twenty mysteries of the third Thrice-
spiritual--that is the four-and-twenty spaces of the third Thrice-spiritual--have rent
themselves asunder and wherefor they have come forth from the Fatherless.
26. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor the five Trees of the first Thrice-spiritual have rent
themselves asunder and wherefor they have extended themselves, standing one behind
the other and moreover bound one to the other with all their orders, and wherefor they
have come forth from the Fatherless.
27. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor the five Trees of the second Thrice-spiritual have
rent themselves asunder and wherefor they have come forth from the Fatherless.
28. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor the five Trees of the third Thrice-spiritual have
rent themselves asunder and wherefor they have come forth from the Fatherless.
29. "And that mystery knoweth why the Fore-uncontainables of the first Thrice-spiritual
have rent themselves asunder and wherefor they have come forth from the Fatherless.
30. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor the Fore-uncontainables of the second Trispiritual
have rent themselves asunder and wherefor they have come forth from the Fatherless.
31. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor all the Fore-uncontainables of the third Thrice-
spiritual have rent themselves asunder and wherefor they have come forth from the
Fatherless.
32. "And that mystery knoweth wherefor the first Thrice-spiritual from below--those who
belong to the orders of the One and Only, the Ineffable hath rent itself asunder and
wherefor it hath come forth from the second Thrice-spiritual.