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1. When then the Saviour had said this, he said unto his disciples: "Understand ye in what
manner I discourse with you?"
2. Then Mary started forward and said: "Yea, my Lord, in truth I enquire closely into all the
words which thou sayest. Concerning the word then of the forgiveness of sins thou hast

spoken unto us in similitude aforetime, saying: 'I am come to cast fire on the earth,' and
again: 'What will I that it burn?' And again thou hast distinguished it clearly, saying: 'I
have a baptism, to baptize in it; and how shall I endure until it is accomplished? Think ye
I am come to cast peace on the earth? Nay, but I am come to cast division. For from now
on five will be in one house; three will be divided against two, and two against three.'

This, my Lord, is the word which thou hast spoken clearly.
3. "The word indeed which thou hast spoken: 'I am come to cast fire on the earth, and
what will I that it burn?'--that is, my Lord: Thou hast brought the mysteries of the
baptisms into the world, and thy pleasure is that they should consume all the sins of the
soul and purify them.
4. And thereafter again thou hast distinguished it clearly, saying: 'I have a baptism, to

baptize in it; and how shall I endure until it is accomplished?'--that is: Thou wilt not
remain in the world until the baptisms are accomplished and purify the perfect souls.
5. "And moreover the word which thou hast spoken unto us aforetime: 'Think ye I am
come to cast peace on the earth? Nay, but I am come to cast division. For from now on

five will be in one house; three will be divided against two, and two against three,'--that
is: Thou hast brought the mystery of the baptisms into the world, and it hath effected a
division in the bodies of the world, because it hath separated the counterfeiting spirit
and the body and the destiny into one portion; the soul and the power on the other
hand it hath separated into another portion;--that is: Three will be against two, and two
against three."

6. And when Mary had said this, the Saviour said: "Well said, thou spiritual and light-pure
Mary. This is the solution of the word."

CHAPTER 117
1. Mary answered again and said: "My Lord, I will still continue to question thee. Now,
therefore, my Lord, bear with me questioning thee. Lo, in openness have we known the
type in which the baptisms forgive sins.

2. Now on the other hand the mystery of these three spaces and the mysteries of this First
Mystery and the mysteries of the Ineffable, in what type do they forgive sins? Do they
forgive in the type of the baptisms, or not?"