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thou give me a sign in this offering."

11. And the sign which Jesus had said [? besought] happened.
12. Jesus said unto his disciples: "Rejoice and exult, for your sins are forgiven and your
iniquities blotted out, and ye are reckoned with the kingdom of my father."
13. And when he said this, the disciples rejoiced in great joy.

14. Jesus said unto them: "This is the manner and way and this is the mystery which ye are

to perform for the men who have faith in you, in whom is no deceit and who hearken
unto you in all good words. And their sins and their iniquities will be blotted out up to
the day on which ye have performed for them this mystery. But hide this mystery and
give it not unto all men, but unto him who shall do all the things which I have said unto

you in my commandments.
15. "This then is the mystery in truth of the baptism for those whose sins are forgiven and
whose iniquities are blotted out. This is the baptism of the first offering which showeth
the way to the region of Truth and to the region of the Light."

CHAPTER 143
1. Thereafter his disciples said unto him: "Rabbi, reveal unto us the mystery of the Light of

thy father, since we heard thee say: 'There is still a fire-baptism and there is still a
baptism of the holy spirit of the Light, and there is a spiritual chrism; these lead the
souls into the Treasury of the Light.' Tell us, therefore, their mystery, so that we
ourselves may inherit the kingdom of thy father."

2. Jesus said unto them:

3. "There is no mystery which is more excellent than these mysteries on which ye
question, in that it will lead your souls into the Light of the lights, into the
regions of Truth and Goodness, into the region of the Holy of all holies, into the
region in which there is neither female nor male, nor are there forms in that

region, but a perpetual indescribable Light.
4. Nothing more excellent is there, therefore, than these mysteries on which ye
question, save only the mystery of the seven Voices and their nine-and-forty
powers and their ciphers. And there is no name which is more excellent than
them all, the name in which are all names and all lights and all powers.

5. "Who then knoweth that name, if he cometh out of the body of matter, nor
smoke nor darkness nor authority nor ruler of the Fate-sphere nor angel nor
archangel nor power can hold down the soul which knoweth that name; but if it