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CHAPTER 98
1. It came to pass, when Jesus had finished speaking these words unto his disciples, that
Mary Magdalene came forward, kissed the feet of Jesus and said unto him: "My Lord,
bear with me and be not wroth with me, if I question thee; but have mercy upon us, my
Lord, and reveal unto us all things on which we shall question thee. Now, therefore, my

Lord, how doth the First Mystery possess twelve mysteries, [and] the Ineffable possess a
one and only mystery?"

2. Jesus answered and said unto her: "Indeed it possesseth a one and only mystery, yet
that mystery constituteth three mysteries, although it is the one and only mystery; but

the type of every one of them is different. And moreover it constituteth five mysteries,
although it is a one and only [one]; but the type of every one is different. So that these
five mysteries are alike with one another in the mystery of the kingdom in the
inheritances of the Light; but the type of each of them is different. And their kingdom is
higher and more exalted than the whole kingdom of the twelve mysteries together of
the First Mystery; but they are not alike in the kingdom [with the one and only mystery]

of the First Mystery in the Light-kingdom.
3. "In like manner also the three mysteries are not [?] alike in the Light-kingdom; but the
type of every one of them is different. And they themselves also are not alike in the
kingdom with the one and only mystery of the First Mystery in the Light-kingdom; and

the type of every one of the three of them, and the type of the configuration of each of
them, is different from one another.
4. "The first [mystery of the First Mystery],--if thou accomplishest its mystery altogether
and standest and accomplishest it finely in all its figures, then dost thou come
straightway out of thy body, become a great light-stream and pass through all the
regions of the rulers and all the regions of the Light, while all are in fear of that soul,

until it cometh to the region of its kingdom.
5. "The second mystery of the First Mystery, on the other hand,--if thou accomplishest it
finely in all its figures,--the man, therefore, who shall accomplish its mystery, if he
speaketh that mystery over the head of any man who goeth forth out of the body, and

he speaketh it into his two ears, if indeed the man who goeth forth out of the body hath
received mysteries for the second time and is sharing in the word of truth,--amēn, I say
unto you: That man, if he goeth forth out of the body of matter, then will his soul
become a great light-stream and pass through all the regions, until it cometh to the
kingdom of that mystery.

6. "But if that man hath received no mysteries and is not sharing in the words of truth,--if
he who accomplisheth that mystery, speaketh that mystery over the head of a man who
cometh forth out of the body and who hath received no mysteries of the Light, and