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Father in the form of a dove · First Mystery surroundeth" }, { "num": 2, "slug": "chapter-2", "title": "Chapter 2", "words": 348, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-2/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-2.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Jesus and his disciples are seated on the Mount of Olives", "blurb": "First Mystery" }, { "num": 3, "slug": "chapter-3", "title": "Chapter 3", "words": 270, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-3/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-3.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Jesus ascendeth into heaven", "blurb": "Jesus, that it gradually surrounded him entirely · Tybi until the ninth hour of the morrow" }, { "num": 4, "slug": "chapter-4", "title": "Chapter 4", "words": 287, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-4/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-4.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Peradventure the Saviour will destroy all regions?\" Thus saying, they wept together", "blurb": "Peradventure the Saviour will destroy all regions?\" Thus saying, they wept together" }, { "num": 5, "slug": "chapter-5", "title": "Chapter 5", "words": 56, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-5/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-5.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Jesus addresseth them", "blurb": "Jesus addresseth them" }, { "num": 6, "slug": "chapter-6", "title": "Chapter 6", "words": 411, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-6/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-6.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "He draweth his light unto himself", "blurb": "He promiseth to tell them all things · Truth unto its completion; and I will discourse with you face to face without similitude" }, { "num": 7, "slug": "chapter-7", "title": "Chapter 7", "words": 912, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-7/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-7.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "I chosen you verily from the beginning through the First Mystery", "blurb": "I set out for the world, |**11** · I have said unto you indeed from the beginning that ye are not of the world" }, { "num": 8, "slug": "chapter-8", "title": "Chapter 8", "words": 507, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-8/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-8.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Of his own incarnation through Mary", "blurb": "Sabaōth, the Good, who is in the region of the Right · I have just said unto you" }, { "num": 9, "slug": "chapter-9", "title": "Chapter 9", "words": 156, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-9/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-9.json", "project_translation": false }, { "num": 10, "slug": "chapter-10", "title": "Chapter 10", "words": 911, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-10/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-10.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The mystery of the five words on the vesture", "blurb": "The solution thereof · We are all with thyself; we are one and the same" }, { "num": 11, "slug": "chapter-11", "title": "Chapter 11", "words": 239, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-11/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-11.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Jesus putteth on his vesture", "blurb": "The powers of the firmament are amazed and fall down and adore him" }, { "num": 12, "slug": "chapter-12", "title": "Chapter 12", "words": 216, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-12/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-12.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "He entereth the first sphere", "blurb": "He entereth the first sphere" }, { "num": 13, "slug": "chapter-13", "title": "Chapter 13", "words": 219, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-13/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-13.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "He entereth the second sphere", "blurb": "I left that region behind me and came to the gate of the second sphere, which is the Fate" }, { "num": 14, "slug": "chapter-14", "title": "Chapter 14", "words": 405, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-14/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-14.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "He entereth the æons", "blurb": "I shone in the houses of the Fate · Forefather, and of the three great triple-powers" }, { "num": 15, "slug": "chapter-15", "title": "Chapter 15", "words": 332, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-15/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-15.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Adamas and the tyrants fight against the light", "blurb": "He taketh from them a third of their power · He changeth the motion of their spheres" }, { "num": 16, "slug": "chapter-16", "title": "Chapter 16", "words": 87, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-16/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-16.json", "project_translation": false }, { "num": 17, "slug": "chapter-17", "title": "Chapter 17", "words": 116, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-17/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-17.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Lord, give commandment unto me to speak in openness", "blurb": "Magdalene asketh and receiveth permission to speak" }, { "num": 18, "slug": "chapter-18", "title": "Chapter 18", "words": 484, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-18/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-18.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Mary interpreteth the discourse from the words of Isaiah", "blurb": "Mary interpreteth the discourse from the words of Isaiah" }, { "num": 19, "slug": "chapter-19", "title": "Chapter 19", "words": 140, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-19/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-19.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Jesus commendeth Mary", "blurb": "Jesus commendeth Mary" }, { "num": 20, "slug": "chapter-20", "title": "Chapter 20", "words": 175, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-20/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-20.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Jesus explaineth further the conversion of the spheres", "blurb": "Jesus explaineth further the conversion of the spheres" }, { "num": 21, "slug": "chapter-21", "title": "Chapter 21", "words": 528, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-21/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-21.json", "project_translation": false }, { "num": 22, "slug": "chapter-22", "title": "Chapter 22", "words": 170, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-22/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-22.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Philip questioneth Jesus", "blurb": "Philip questioneth Jesus" }, { "num": 23, "slug": "chapter-23", "title": "Chapter 23", "words": 219, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-23/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-23.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Inheritance of the Height through the mysteries and shall be in the Treasury of the Light", "blurb": "Inheritance of the Height through the mysteries and shall be in the Treasury of the Light" }, { "num": 24, "slug": "chapter-24", "title": "Chapter 24", "words": 123, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-24/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-24.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Mary questioneth him again", "blurb": "I give thee trouble questioning thee" }, { "num": 25, "slug": "chapter-25", "title": "Chapter 25", "words": 519, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-25/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-25.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "I hide nothing from you, but I will reveal unto you all things with surety and openness", "blurb": "Yew, the Overseer of the Light, had established them · Of the fashioning of the souls of men" }, { "num": 26, "slug": "chapter-26", "title": "Chapter 26", "words": 311, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-26/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-26.json", "project_translation": false }, { "num": 27, "slug": "chapter-27", "title": "Chapter 27", "words": 767, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-27/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-27.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Adamas and the tyrants fight against the light-vesture", "blurb": "This then they did, not knowing against whom they fought" }, { "num": 28, "slug": "chapter-28", "title": "Chapter 28", "words": 437, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-28/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-28.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The powers adore the light-vesture", "blurb": "And they all sang praises together to the interiors of the interiors · And they were in weakness and themselves fell into great and immeasurable fear" }, { "num": 29, "slug": "chapter-29", "title": "Chapter 29", "words": 318, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-29/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-29.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Jesus entereth the thirteenth æon and findeth Pistis Sophia", "blurb": "I ascended to the veils of the thirteenth æon · Pistis Sophia below the thirteenth æon all alone and no one of them with her" }, { "num": 30, "slug": "chapter-30", "title": "Chapter 30", "words": 628, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-30/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-30.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Mary desireth to hear the story of Sophia", "blurb": "Sophia desireth to enter the Light-world" }, { "num": 31, "slug": "chapter-31", "title": "Chapter 31", "words": 310, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-31/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-31.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Sophia taketh the lion-faced power of Self-willed for the true Light", "blurb": "Yaldabaōth, of whom I have spoken unto you many times" }, { "num": 32, "slug": "chapter-32", "title": "Chapter 32", "words": 1272, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-32/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-32.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The first repentance of Sophia", "blurb": "I will go to that region, in order that I may take that light · And I cried for help, but my voice hath not reached out of the darkness" }, { "num": 33, "slug": "chapter-33", "title": "Chapter 33", "words": 842, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-33/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-33.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Mary interpreteth the first repentance from Psalm lxviii\"'1", "blurb": "I sank, or am submerged, in the slime of the abyss, and power was not · But I prayed with my soul unto thee, |**54**" }, { "num": 34, "slug": "chapter-34", "title": "Chapter 34", "words": 85, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-34/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-34.json", "project_translation": false }, { "num": 35, "slug": "chapter-35", "title": "Chapter 35", "words": 394, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-35/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-35.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The second repentance of Sophia", "blurb": "May they who would take away my power, fall down and become powerless" }, { "num": 36, "slug": "chapter-36", "title": "Chapter 36", "words": 460, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-36/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-36.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Peter complaineth of Mary", "blurb": "Peter, speak the thought of her repentance in the midst of thy brethren · Let them be ashamed and destroyed who calumniate my soul" }, { "num": 37, "slug": "chapter-37", "title": "Chapter 37", "words": 323, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-37/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-37.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Jesus promiseth to perfect the disciples in all things", "blurb": "I say unto you: |**60** · Pistis Sophia hath uttered" }, { "num": 38, "slug": "chapter-38", "title": "Chapter 38", "words": 316, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-38/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-38.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Martha, art thou blessed", "blurb": "Pistis Sophia · But I am wretched, I am poor; O Lord, help me" }, { "num": 39, "slug": "chapter-39", "title": "Chapter 39", "words": 650, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-39/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-39.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The fourth repentance of Sophia", "blurb": "They have taken my light from me, and my power is dried up · Instead of with light which was in her, they have filled her with chaos" }, { "num": 40, "slug": "chapter-40", "title": "Chapter 40", "words": 549, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-40/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-40.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "John asketh and receiveth permission to speak", "blurb": "John interpreteth the repentance from Psalm ci · To proclaim the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem" }, { "num": 41, "slug": "chapter-41", "title": "Chapter 41", "words": 664, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-41/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-41.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Jesus commendeth John", "blurb": "Self-willed again squeeze the light out of Sophia · First Mystery, to save her out of the chaos" }, { "num": 42, "slug": "chapter-42", "title": "Chapter 42", "words": 355, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-42/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-42.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Pistis Sophia", "blurb": "Pistis Sophia; and I could not come forward because I am the scribe of all the discourses · Philip and Thomas and Matthew" }, { "num": 43, "slug": "chapter-43", "title": "Chapter 43", "words": 691, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-43/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-43.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Mary interpreteth the words of Jesus concerning the three witnesses", "blurb": "Moses: 'By two or three witnesses shall every matter be established · Philip and Thomas and Matthew" }, { "num": 44, "slug": "chapter-44", "title": "Chapter 44", "words": 335, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-44/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-44.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Philip is commended and continueth writing", "blurb": "Jesus had heard Philip speak these words, that he said: \"Well said, Philip, well-beloved · I shall speak, and [of all things which I shall] do, and of all that thou shalt see" }, { "num": 45, "slug": "chapter-45", "title": "Chapter 45", "words": 573, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-45/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-45.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "My soul hath hoped in the Lord from the morning until the evening", "blurb": "And he will deliver Israel from all his iniquities · He promiseth that the tyrants shall be judged and consumed by the wise fire" }, { "num": 46, "slug": "chapter-46", "title": "Chapter 46", "words": 1385, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-46/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-46.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The repentance of Sophia is not yet accepted", "blurb": "The seventh repentance of Sophia · On thee have I had faith" }, { "num": 47, "slug": "chapter-47", "title": "Chapter 47", "words": 613, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-47/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-47.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "I may tell you all things which befell Pistis Sophia", "blurb": "Self-willed oppress her again · The eighth repentance of Sophia" }, { "num": 48, "slug": "chapter-48", "title": "Chapter 48", "words": 414, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-48/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-48.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The emanations of Self-willed cease for a time to oppress Sophia", "blurb": "Self-willed, and they oppressed Pistis Sophia again · She continueth her repentance" }, { "num": 49, "slug": "chapter-49", "title": "Chapter 49", "words": 458, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-49/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-49.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Matthew interpreteth the eighth repentance from Psalm xxx", "blurb": "O Lord, have I hoped · Incline thine ear unto me, save me quickly" }, { "num": 50, "slug": "chapter-50", "title": "Chapter 50", "words": 1129, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-50/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-50.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Jesus had heard these words, he said: \"Finely [said], Matthew", "blurb": "Mary interpreteth the words of Jesus · He said unto her: \"Well said, Mary" }, { "num": 51, "slug": "chapter-51", "title": "Chapter 51", "words": 714, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-51/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-51.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "James interpreteth the ninth repentance from Psalm xxxiv", "blurb": "Draw forth a sword and conceal it [*sic*] from my oppressors · They have rejoiced over me, and they are put to shame" }, { "num": 52, "slug": "chapter-52", "title": "Chapter 52", "words": 673, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-52/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-52.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Jesus commendeth James and promiseth the first place unto the disciples", "blurb": "James then had said this, Jesus said unto him: \"Well said, finely, James · Pistis Sophia" }, { "num": 53, "slug": "chapter-53", "title": "Chapter 53", "words": 239, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-53/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-53.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Pistis Sophia", "blurb": "Peter interpreteth the tenth repentance from Psalm cxix · Peter, and finely" }, { "num": 54, "slug": "chapter-54", "title": "Chapter 54", "words": 600, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-54/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-54.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The eleventh repentance of Sophia", "blurb": "I will take away the light from Pistis Sophia, which will now be taken from it · Pistis Sophia" }, { "num": 55, "slug": "chapter-55", "title": "Chapter 55", "words": 851, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-55/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-55.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Self-willed aideth his emanations and they again oppress Sophia", "blurb": "Pistis Sophia, desiring to 'take away the whole light in Sophia · Sophia, that she cried to the height, crying unto me that I should help her" }, { "num": 56, "slug": "chapter-56", "title": "Chapter 56", "words": 538, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-56/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-56.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Andrew interpreteth the twelfth repentance from Psalm cviii", "blurb": "Instead of loving me they have slandered me · He loved cursing,--and it shall come unto him" }, { "num": 57, "slug": "chapter-57", "title": "Chapter 57", "words": 430, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-57/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-57.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The thirteenth repentance of Sophia", "blurb": "O Light of lights · Pistis Sophia said" }, { "num": 58, "slug": "chapter-58", "title": "Chapter 58", "words": 753, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-58/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-58.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Jesus sendeth forth a light-power to help Sophia", "blurb": "First Mystery that she should be led entirely forth out of the chaos · I had sent to lead up Sophia out of the chaos, shone exceedingly" }, { "num": 59, "slug": "chapter-59", "title": "Chapter 59", "words": 654, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-59/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-59.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The power sent by Jesus formeth a light-wreath on Sophia's head", "blurb": "For the Light is with me, and I myself am with the Light · Pistis Sophia uttered" }, { "num": 60, "slug": "chapter-60", "title": "Chapter 60", "words": 550, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-60/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-60.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The First Mystery and Jesus sent forth two light-powers to help Sophia", "blurb": "Pistis Sophia · Mary Magdalene interpreteth the mystery from Psalm lxxxiv" }, { "num": 61, "slug": "chapter-61", "title": "Chapter 61", "words": 702, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-61/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-61.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "Joseph had heard thee say these words, that he was startled", "blurb": "And we looked on thee and him and found thee like unto him · Ye became one" }, { "num": 62, "slug": "chapter-62", "title": "Chapter 62", "words": 817, "url": "/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-62/", "api": "/api/sources/pistis-sophia/book-1/chapter-62.json", "project_translation": false, "subtitle": "The other Mary came forward and said: \"My Lord, bear with me and be not wroth with me", "blurb": "Jesus said unto her: \"I bid thee speak their solution · Light-kingdom" } ] }