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CONCLUSION OF BOOK TWO

CHAPTER 101
1. "AND those who are worthy of the mysteries which abide in the Ineffable, which are
those which have not gone forth,--these exist before the First Mystery, and to use a
likeness and similitude, that ye may understand it, they are as the Limbs of the
Ineffable.

2. And every one existeth according to the dignity of its glory: the head according to the
dignity of the head and the eye according to the dignity of the eyes and the ear
according to the dignity of the ears and the rest of the Limbs [in like fashion]; so that the
matter is manifest.

3. There is a multitude of limbs but one only body.
4. Of this indeed have I spoken in a pattern and similitude and likeness, but not in a form in
truth; nor have I revealed the word in truth, but the mystery [only] of the Ineffable.
5. "And all the Limbs which are in it,--according to the word with which I have made
comparison,--that is, those which abide on the mystery of the Ineffable, and those
which abide in it, and also the three spaces which are after them according to the

mysteries,--of all these in truth and verity I am their treasury -beside whom there is no
other treasury, who hath not his like in the world; but there are still words and
mysteries and other regions.

6. "Now, therefore, blessed is he who hath found the [words of the] mysteries [of the first
space] which is from without; and he is a god who hath found these words of the
mysteries of the second space, which is in the midst; and he is a saviour and an
uncontainable who hath found the words of the mysteries of the third space, which is
within, and he is more excellent than the universe and like unto those who are in that
third space. Because he hath found the mystery in which they are and in which they

stand,-- for this cause, therefore, is he like unto them.
7. He on the other hand who hath found the words of the mysteries which I have
described unto you according to a likeness, that they are the Limbs of the Ineffable,--
amēn, I say unto you: That man who hath found the words of these mysteries in divine

truth, is the first in truth and like unto him [sc. the First, i.e. the Ineffable], for through
those words and mysteries . . . and the universe itself standeth through that First.
8. For this cause he who hath found the words of those mysteries, is like unto the First.
9. For it is the gnosis of the gnosis of the Ineffable concerning which I have discoursed with
you this day."