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THE REPENTANCES
First Repentance
And I cried for help, but my voice did not reach out from
the darkness. And I looked up to the heights, asking that
the Light, in which I believed, might rescue me.
Because of your Will and for the sake of your light I have
fallen into this oppression, and shame has covered me.
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who does not know you or your Powers–because I was in his
æon without performing his mystery.
And I was in that Abyss, mourning and looking for the light
which I had seen from above.
And the guardians of the gates of the æons looked for me,
and all who remained in their places mocked me.
Do not let this darkness overwhelm me, and do not let this
lion-faced power swallow my power, and do not let this
chaos shroud my power.
Hear me, O Light, for your grace is precious, and look down
on me according to your great merciful Light.
Save me because of the rulers who hate me, for you know my
oppression and my torment, and the torment of my power
which they stole from me. They who put me into this evil
place stand before you; deal with them according to your
goodness.
And when I looked for the light, they gave me darkness; and
when I asked for my power, they gave me matter.
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for them, and may they be trapped within it, and pay them
back and make them stumble, and banish them from their own
regions.
May they live in the darkness without the light; may they
behold the chaos for ever, restricted always to the Abyss.
Because they have taken my light from me, and my power has
begun to fail in me and I am lacking my light.
Now, let all things rejoice; seek the Light, that the power
of the stars which is in you may live.
The Light has heard you, nor will it leave any without
having purified you.
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Let all things praise the Lord of all æons, and let all
matter and all that is it praise him.
And the souls of those who will receive mysteries will live
in that region, and they who have received mysteries in its
name will live within.
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Second Repentance
And when I had faith in you, the rulers of the æons mocked
me, saying: She has quitted her mystery. You are my saviour
and you are my deliverer and you are my mystery, O Light.
May they who would take away my power fall down and become
powerless. May they who would take away my light-power from
me, be wrapped in darkness and sink into powerlessness.
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Third Repentance
May they who would take away my light lack light and be in
the darkness. May they who would take away my power, turn
into chaos and be put to shame.
May all those who seek the Light, rejoice and exult, and
those who seek after your mystery say, “May the mystery be
exalted.”
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Fourth Repentance
They have taken my light from me, and my power is dried up.
I have forgotten the mystery that I was supposed to
accomplish.
But you, O Lord, are eternal Light, and visit those who are
oppressed.
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Your saviours sought the power which is in my soul, because
the number is completed, so that its substance may be saved.
For the Lord will seek the power of your soul. He has
revealed his mystery,
For the Light has looked down from the height of its light.
It will look down on the total substance,
So that it may lay its name in the soul and its mystery in
the power.
Fifth Repentance
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Light of my salvation, I sing praises to you in the regions
of the heights and the depths.
I have become like the archons of chaos, who are gone into
the darknesses below; I have become like a material body,
which has no one in the height to save it.
I have become like substances from which the power has been
stolen, fallen down into chaos,–substances which you have
not saved, which are utterly condemned by your will.
And your spirit has withdrawn and abandoned me. And by your
will the expressions of my aeon have not helped me, but
have despised me and abandoned me. But I am not yet
completely destroyed.
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For they have stolen my light, and I am in pain on account
of the Light since the time when I was emanated. And when I
looked into the height to the Light, then I looked down
below at the light-power in the chaos, I rose up and went
down.
Your will came upon me, and the terrors, which you decreed
for me, have brought me into illusion.
Sixth Repentance
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I sang praises to you, O Light, in the darkness below.
Seventh Repentance
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O Light, I lifted up my power to you, my Light.
I have faith in you. Do not scorn me; do not let the rulers
who hate me celebrate my fall.
For all who have faith in you shall not be put to shame.
Let those who have stolen my power, remain in darkness; and
do not let them profit by it, but take it away from them.
Listen and save me, O Light, for your mercy endures forever.
For all gnoses of the Light are saving means and are
mysteries for all who seek the regions of its Inheritance
and its mysteries.
And his soul will abide in the regions of the Light, and
his power will inherit the Treasury of the Light.
The Light gives power to those who have faith in it; and
the name of its mystery belongs to those who trust in it.
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And it will show them the region of the Inheritance, which
is in the Treasury of the Light.
But I have always had faith in the Light, for it will save
my feet from the bonds of the darkness.
Listen to me, O Light, and save me, for they have taken
away my name in the chaos.
Give heed to the rulers who have hated me because they are
jealous of me.
Watch over my power and save me, and do not let me remain
in this darkness, for I have had faith in you.
And they have made a great fool of me for having had faith
in you, O Light.
Eighth Repentance
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On you, O Light, I have hoped. Do not leave me in the
chaos; deliver me and save me according to your gnosis.
You are angry with those who keep watch over me and will
not be able to lay hold of me. But I have had faith in the
Light.
I will rejoice and will sing praises that you have had
mercy upon me and have listened and saved me from my
oppression. And you will set free my power from the chaos.
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And all who are in the æons said, “She has become chaos.”
And after that all the pitiless powers encompassed me
together and proposed to take away the whole light in me.
Send your light over me, for I am nothing before you, and
save me through your compassion.
Let their mouth be shut up, those who would devour me, who
say, “Let us take the whole light in her,” even though I
have done no ill to them.
Ninth Repentance
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O Light, strike down those who have taken my power from me,
and take away the power from those who have stolen mine
away from me.
For I am your power and your light. Come and save me.
Let all those who would take away my light lack their own
power. Let them return to chaos and become powerless, those
who would take away my light from me.
Let their power be as dust, and let Iao, your angel, strike
them down.
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And they requited me with all this because I have had faith
in the Light of the height; and they have made my power
lightless.
They have returned again and made trial of me and they have
oppressed me and ground their teeth against me, because of
their desire to take away my light from me .
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Quickly, O Light, vindicate and avenge me,
And do not let them not say, “Our power is glutted with her
light.” And do not let them say, “We have eaten her power.”
Instead, let darkness come upon them, and let those who
long to take away my light from me, become powerless, and
clothe them with chaos and darkness.
Tenth Repentance
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I cried to you, O Light of lights, in my oppression, and
you listened to me.
The traps of the Archon and the nooses of the merciless are
spread out.
Woe to me, that my dwelling was far away, and I was in the
dwellings of the chaos.
Eleventh Repentance
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Why has the mighty power raised itself in evil?
Its plotting takes away the light from me all the time, and
they have taken away power from me like sharp iron.
Because of this the Light will take away their whole light,
and also their whole substance will be nothing. And it will
take away their light and will not allow them to reside in
the thirteenth æon, their dwelling-place, and will not have
their name in the region of those who shall live.
And they will see you and rejoice over you and say,
“Behold, an expression whose light has not been purified so
that it may be saved, that boasted about the abundance of
the light of its power, because it did not emanate from the
power, and said ‘I will take away the light from Pistis
Sophia,’ which will now be taken from it.”
Twelfth Repentance
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O Light, do not forget my praise-singing.
For the Archon and his lion-faced power have opened their
mouths against me and have acted craftily against me.
Let the darkness come over the Archon, and let the ruler of
the outermost darkness dwell at his right hand.
And when you pass sentence, take his power from him; and
the deed which he plotted, to take my light,–may you take
his from him.
And may all his powers of his light in him end, and let a
different one of the three triple-powers receive his realms.
Let them take away the light in his expressions and blot
out their names from the thirteenth æon; take his name out
of that region forever.
And as for the lion-faced power, let them bring the sin of
him who emanated it before the Light, and not wipe out the
error of the substance which brought him forth.
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And may their sin be together before the Light eternally,
and may they not look beyond the chaos and take their names
out of all regions;
Let this happen to them who brought this upon me for the
Light’s sake and have said, “Let us take away her whole
power.”
But you, O Light, have mercy upon me for the sake of the
mystery of your name, and save me in the goodness of your
grace.
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out of which I have descended, in order that the thirteenth
repentance of the thirteenth æon may be accomplished,–those
which I have passed by and from which I have descended.
And give the baptism to me, and forgive my sins, and purify
me from my transgression.
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I will sing praises to you, O Light, for I desired to come
to you. I will sing you praises, O Light, for you are my
deliverer.
You sent me your light through yourself and saved me. You
led me to the higher regions of the chaos.
And may great darkness cover them and darker gloom come
over them. And do not let them see me in the light of your
power, which you have sent to me to save me, so that they
may not dominate me.
And they have proposed to take away my whole light and have
not been able to take it, for your light-power was with me.
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And though all the substances be shaken, I will not be
shaken.
For the Light is with me, and I myself am with the Light.
O Light, it is you who have helped me; let your light rain
over me.
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For you are my protector, and I come to you, O Light,
having faith in you, O Light.
I am saved from the chaos and loosed from the bonds of the
darkness. I have come to you, O Light.
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For you were light on all sides of me, saving me and
helping me.
And you have covered me with the light of your stream and
purged from me all evil substances; and I shall be relieved
of all my substances because of your light.
I sing a song to you; through your will you led me down out
of the higher æon, and led me up to the regions which are
below.
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And again through your will you saved me from the regions
which are below, and through you taken there the substance
in my light-powers, and I have seen it.
And you were with me, giving me power in all things, and
your light surrounded me in all regions, and through you
all the expressions of the Archon have been made powerless.
For you have taken the power of their light from them and
made straight my way to lead me out of the chaos.
You put into them purified light and into all my limbs, in
which was no light, you have given purified light from the
Light of the Height.
And you have made straight the way for them my limbs, and
the light of your face has become for me life eternal.
You have led me forth above the chaos, the region of chaos
and extermination, in order that all the substances in that
region, might be freed and all my powers be renewed in your
light, and your light be in them.
I will declare: You are the higher Light that saved me and
led me to you, and you have not let the expressions of the
Archon, which are hostile to me, take my light.
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O Light of lights, I sing praises unto you; you saved me.
And the powers which are in you sing praises to the name of
his holy mystery;
Who has saved your light from the expressions of the Archon
which belong to destruction; who has wreathed you with
light in his compassion, until he saved you;
Who has filled you with purified light; and your beginning
will renew itself as an invisible of the Height.’
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It led my power up out of the chaos and the nether darkness
of the whole substance. It removed me to a higher and surer
æon, lofty and firm; it changed my place on the way which
leads to my region.
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That they may never take my light from me, as the lion-
faced power did. For your light is not with me and your
light-stream to save me. Adamas is even more enraged
against me, saying, “You have imprisoned my power in the
chaos.”
And let the enemy, Adamas, pursue my power and seize it and
take my light from me and cast it into his dark power in
the chaos, and keep my power there.
Why do you pursue me and say I should not have help, that
the Light should not save me from you?
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Now my rescuer is the Light, and a strong one, but it is
abiding until the time comes when it will come and help me.
And it will not always bring its wrath upon you. This is
the time, however, of which he has spoken to me.
Now, if you do not turn back and stop chasing after me,
then the Light will make its power ready; it will make all
of its powers ready.
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And he has emanated another chaos and made another dark and
chaotic one.
I give thanks unto you, O Light, for you are a saviour; you
are a deliverer for all time.
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I utter this Ode to the Light, for it has saved me and
brought me out of the hand of the archons, my enemies.
I give thanks to you, O Light, that you saved me, and for
your wondrous works for humanity.
I give thanks unto you, O Light, that you saved me and that
your wondrous works have been wrought in humanity.
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And you have shattered the upper gates of the darkness and
the mighty bolts of the chaos.
I give thanks unto you, O Light, that you have saved me,
and for your wondrous works in humanity.
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