Greco-Christian stream·Pistis Sophia·First Book — Post-Resurrection Discourses·Chapter 17
Lord, give commandment unto me to speak in openness
Magdalene asketh and receiveth permission to speak
Source context
- Theme
- post-resurrection initiatory discourse — chapter 17 of 62
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Nazarene Gnosticism (Codex Nazaraeus)The Nazarene Gnostic tradition structures post-resurrection revelation as hierarchical transmission of cosmological knowledge, with the risen teacher disclosing successive mysteries to initiated disciples — a pattern structurally parallel to the ascending pleromatic sequences found across Valentinian and Ophite literature.
Chapter 17
CHAPTER 17
When then he had said this to his disciples, he said unto them: "Who hath ears to hear, let him hear."
It came to pass then, when Mary had heard the Saviour say these words, that she gazed fixedly into the air for the space of an hour. She said: "My Lord, give commandment unto me to speak in openness."
Mary Magdalene asketh and receiveth permission to speak.And Jesus, the compassionate, answered and said unto Mary: "Mary, thou blessed one, whom I will perfect in all mysteries of those of the height, discourse in openness, thou, whose heart is raised to the kingdom of heaven more than all thy brethren."