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CHAPTER 97
1. When then the Saviour had said this, Mary Magdalene started forward and said: "My
Lord, bear with me and be not wroth with me, if I question on all things with precision
and certainty. Now, therefore, my Lord, is then another the word of the mystery of the
Ineffable and another the word of the whole gnosis?"

2. The Saviour answered and said: "Yea, another is the mystery of the Ineffable and
another the word of the whole gnosis."

3. And Mary answered again and said unto the Saviour: "My Lord, bear with me, if I
question thee, and be not wroth with me. Now, therefore, my Lord, unless we live and

know the gnosis of the whole word of the Ineffable, shall we not be able to inherit the
Light-kingdom?"
4. And the Saviour answered and said unto Mary: "Surely; for every one who shall receive
a mystery of the Light-kingdom, will go and inherit up to the region up to which he hath
received mysteries. But he will not know the gnosis of the universe, wherefor all this
hath arisen, unless he knoweth the one and only word of the Ineffable, which is the

gnosis of the universe. And again in openness: I am the gnosis of the universe. And
moreover it is impossible to know the one and only word of the gnosis, unless a man
first receive the mystery of the Ineffable. But all the men who shall receive mysteries in
the Light,--every one will go and inherit up to the region up to which he hath received

mysteries.
5. "On this account I have said unto you aforetime: 'He who hath faith in a prophet, will
receive a prophet's reward, and he who hath faith in a righteous [man] will receive a
righteous [man's] reward,'--that is: Every one will go to the region up to which he hath
received mysteries. He who receiveth a lesser mystery, will inherit the lesser mystery,
and he who receiveth a higher mystery, will inherit the higher regions. And every one

will abide in his region in the light of my kingdom, and every one will have power over
the orders which are below him, but he will not have the power to go to the orders
which are above him; but he will abide in the region of the Inheritance of the Light of my
kingdom, being in a great light immeasurable for the gods and all the invisibles, and he

will be in great joy and great jubilation.

6. "But now, therefore, hearken, that I may discourse with you concerning the grandeur of
those who shall receive the mysteries of the First Mystery.
7. "He, therefore, who shall receive the [first] mystery of that First Mystery, and it shall be
at the time that he cometh out of the body of the matter of the rulers,--then the

retributive receivers come and lead the soul of that man out of the body. And that soul
will become a great light-stream in the hands of the retributive receivers; and those
receivers will be afraid of the light of that soul.