{"bruce-codex-untitled/1":{"o":"","t":"… He set him up, so that they might contend for the city in which their image is; and it is she in whom they move and in whom they are alive; and she is the house of the Father and the garment of the Son and the power of the Mother and the image of the Pleroma. This is the first Father of the All; this is the first being; this is the king of the Untouchables. This is he in whom the All wanders about. This is he in whom he has given it (the All) form. This is the self-grown and self-begotten place; this is the depth of the All, this is the great, true depth. This is he to whom the All has come; it kept silence concerning him and did not describe him, for he is indescribable and incomprehensible. This is the first spring; this is he whose voice has reached all the places. This is the first sound, until the All perceived and understood. This is he whose members make up a myriad of myriads of powers, each one coming from them.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 1 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/1).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/10":{"o":"","t":"But outside the Indivisible and outside his characterless Ennead, in which all characters are, there are three other Enneads, each making nine Enneads, and in each there is a basket, by which three Fathers are gathered: an Infinite, an Unutterable and an Incomprehensible. And in the midst of the second (Ennead) there is a basket, and three fatherhoods are in it: an Invisible, an Unbegotten and an Unshakable. In the third too there is a basket, and three fatherhoods are in it: a Still One, an Unknown and a Thrice-powerful. And through these the All came to know God, and fled to him, and gave birth to many countless(?) aeons. And according to each Ennead they make myriads of myriads of praises; and each of these Enneads has in it a Monad. And in each Monad there is a place which is called “incorruptible, that is, the holy land”. In the land of each of these Monads there is a spring, and there are myriads of myriads of powers, which receive crowns on their heads from the crown of the Thrice-powerful. And in the midst of the Enneads and in the midst of the Monads there is the immeasurable depth, on which the All, the inner and the outer, looks; above it are twelve fatherhoods, and thirty powers surround each (Father). 1. The first fatherhood is an infinite face, which thirty powers surround, which are infinite. 2. The second fatherhood is an invisible face, and thirty invisibles surround it. 3. The third fatherhood is an incomprehensible face, and thirty incomprehensibles surround it. 4. And the fourth fatherhood is an invisible face; thirty invisible powers surround it. 5. The fifth fatherhood is an all-powerful face, and thirty all-powerful ones surround it. 6. The sixth fatherhood is an all-wise face, and thirty all-wise ones surround it. 7. The seventh fatherhood is an unknown face, and thirty unknown powers surround it. 8. The eighth fatherhood is a still face, and thirty still powers surround it. 9. The ninth fatherhood is an unbegotten face, and thirty unbegotten powers surround it. 10. The tenth fatherhood is an unshakable face, and thirty unshakable powers surround it. 11. The eleventh fatherhood is an All-mystery face, and thirty All-mystery powers surround it. 12. The twelfth fatherhood is a thrice-powerful face, and thirty thrice-powerful powers surround it. And in the midst of the immeasurable depth there are five powers, which are called by these unutterable names: (1.) The first is called “Love”, from which all love has come forth. 2. The second (is called) “Hope”; through it people have hoped in the only-begotten Son of God. 3. The third is called “Faith”; through it people have believed in the mysteries of the Indescribable. 4. The fourth is called “Knowledge”; through it people have known the first Father, for whose sake they exist, and (through it) they have known the mystery of the Silence, which speaks for all things and is hidden, the first Monad, for whose sake the All became without substance. This is the mystery on whose head the 365 essences form a crown like the hair of a man, and at whose feet the holy Pleroma is like these footstools. This is the gate of God. 5. The fifth is called “Peace”; through it peace has been given to each of the inner and the outer, for in it the All was created. This is the immeasurable depth; this is that in which the 365 fatherhoods are, and through these the year has been divided. This is the depth which surrounds the holy Pleroma outside; this is that above which the Thrice-powerful and his branches are like these trees, and this is that above which Musanios and all his are. And there is Aphredon with his twelve righteous ones; in their midst there is a basket, as they carry into it the praises and the hymns and the petitions and the prayers of the Mother of the whole, or the Mother of the All, that is, of the so-called Manifest One. And form is given to them through the twelve righteous ones; they are sent through him to the Pleroma of Setheus; they remember these in the outer aeon, in which matter is. This is the depth in which the Thrice-powerful was praised until he reached the Indivisible. And he received the grace of the Unknowable; through it he received so great a sonship that the Pleroma could not bear it because of the excess of its light and of the brightness in it.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 10 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/10).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/11":{"o":"","t":"And the whole Pleroma was troubled, and the depth with all its inhabitants was moved, and they fled to the aeon of the Mother. And the mystery commanded that the veils of the aeons be drawn back until the overseer had established the aeons anew. And the overseer established the aeons anew, as it is written: “He has established the world, and it will not be moved”, and again: “The earth is dissolved, and all who are on it.” And then the Thrice-powerful came forth; in him the Son is hidden, and on his head is the crown of firmness, as he prepares myriads of myriads of praises, and those who cry out: “Make straight the way for the Lord and receive the grace of God. And all the aeons which belong to you(?) he will fill with the grace of the only-begotten Son.” And the holy Father and the All-perfect, and he with whom the whole fullness is, stood over the immeasurable depth; “from his fullness we have received grace”. Then the aeon was established and ceased to be moved. The Father established it, so that it might never be moved. And the aeon of the Mother remained filled with what is in it, until the command came forth through the mystery hidden in the first Father, from which the mystery came forth, so that his Son might set up the All anew in his knowledge, in which the All is. Then Setheus sent a Logos-Demiurge, with whom are a multitude of powers crowned on their heads. Their crowns cast forth rays, and the brightness of their bodies is alive in the place to which they have come; and the Word that comes from their mouth is eternal life, and the light that comes from their eyes is rest for them, and the movement of their hand is their flight to the place from which they have come, and their looking into their face is the knowledge concerning themselves, and their going to themselves is their return again, and the spreading out of their hands is their establishment, and the hearing of their ears is the perception in their heart, and the uniting of their members is the gathering of the dispersion of Israel, and the taking hold of them is their establishment in the Logos, and the number in their fingers is the count or the number that has come forth, as it is written: “He who counts the countless stars and gives names to them all.” And the whole union of the Logos-Demiurge took place with those who had come in the movement that had taken place. And they all became one, as it is written: “They all became one in the one Alone.” And then this Logos-Demiurge became divine power and Lord and Saviour and Righteous One and King and Good One and Father and Mother; this is he whose work has brought benefit; he was honoured and became father of those who have believed. He became law in the … and mighty.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 11 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/11).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/12":{"o":"","t":"And the All-manifest came forth, on whose head was the crown; she placed it on those who had believed. And the Mother, the Virgin, and the power of the aeons gave an order to her worlds according to the command of the Inner, and placed in them the spark of light after the type of the Monad, and set up the Veiled One surrounding them; and she set up the Forefather after the type of the Indivisible, and the twelve righteous ones surrounding him. There are crowns on their heads and a seal of glory in their right hand, and in their midst a love, and in the spring a thrice-powerful face, and a basket which the twelve Fathers and a sonship hidden in them surround. And she set up the Self-father after the type of the characterless Ennead and gave him authority over everyone who is father to himself alone, and crowned him with all glory, and gave him love and peace and truth and myriads of powers, so that he might gather those who had been scattered in the confusion that took place at the time when the Thrice-powerful and the Joy and the Lord of the All, who has the power to give life and to destroy, had come forth. And she set up the first-begotten Son after the type of the Thrice-powerful and gave him an Ennead nine times and gave him five Decads ten times, so that he might complete the contest laid on him. And she gave him the first-fruits of the sonship, in which he was able to be thrice-powerful, and he received the vow of the sonship, in which the All had been sold, and received the contest entrusted to him. And he raised up all that was pure in matter and made it a world, an aeon and a city, which is called “Incorruption” and “Jerusalem”. And it is also called “the new earth”, and it is also called “self-sufficient”, and it is also called “without a king”. And that land too is a God-bearing and life-giving one. This is the one which the Mother asked to be set up; therefore she set up commandment and order, and set up providence and love in this land. This is the land of which it is written: “The land which drinks the rain-water countless times”, that is, which increases light in itself many times from its going out to its coming in; this is that for whose sake the sense-perceptible man was written(?), and he was formed and created after the type of this land. This is the one which the First-begotten saved from its own dispersion. Therefore the Father of the All, the Unbounded, sent a crown in which is the name of the All, whether infinite or unutterable or incomprehensible or incorruptible or unknown or still or all-powerful or indivisible. This is the crown of which it is written: “It was given to Solomon on the day of the gladness of his heart.” And the first Monad further sent him an unutterable garment, which is all light and all life and all resurrection and all love and all hope and all faith and all wisdom and all knowledge and all truth and all peace and all All-manifest and all All-mother and all All-mystery and all All-spring and all All-perfect and all invisible and all unknown and all infinite and all unutterable and all depth and all incomprehensible and all Pleroma and all silence and all unshakable and all unbegotten and all still and all Monad and all Ennead and all Dodecad and all Ogdoad and all Decad and all Hebdomad and all Hexad and all Pentad and all Tetrad and all Triad and all Dyad and all Monad. And in it is the All, and the All too has found itself here and known itself in it. And she (the Monad) gave light to them all in her indescribable light; myriads of myriads of powers were given to her, so that she might set up the All once for all. And she gathered her garments to herself and made them in the form of a veil which surrounds her on all sides, and poured herself out over them all and set them all up and separated them all according to order and according to commandment and according to providence. [13] And then the Existent separated itself from the Non-existent, and the Non-existent is the evil that has shown itself in matter. And the power of the garment separated the Existent from the Non-existent, and called the Existent “eternal” and the Non-existent “matter”; and in the middle it separated the Existent from the Non-existent and put veils between them, and put purifying powers, so that they might be purified and cleansed. And in this way it gave commandments to the Existent, and set up the Mother as head and gave her ten aeons, and in each aeon there are a myriad of powers, and in each aeon a Monad and an Ennead. And it put in her an All-mother and gave her a power, to lay it hidden in her, so that no one might know it. And it put in her a great basket, by which three powers stand: an Unbegotten, an Unshakable and the great Pure One. And it gave him twelve others, who were crowned and surrounded him, and it also gave him seven commanders, who had the all-perfect seal, and on whose heads there was a crown in which there were twelve precious stones, which come from Adamas, the man of light. And it set up the Forefather in the aeons of the Mother of the whole and gave him the whole authority of fatherhood, and gave him powers, so that people might listen to him as to a father and as to the first father of all who had come into being. And it put on his head a crown of twelve kinds, and gave him a power which is thrice-powerful and all-powerful, and gave him the sonship and myriads of myriads of praises, which it had given him, and surrounded him with the Pleroma (or “turned the Pleroma towards him”). And it gave him authority to do all things, to give life and to destroy, and gave him a power from the aeon which is called “Solmistos”, after which all the aeons search, where it has revealed itself. And myriads of myriads of praises were given to him and to the aeons which are with him. The power which is given to the Forefather is called “first-manifest”, because he is the one who first revealed himself. And he was called “Unbegotten”, because no one created him, and he was also called “the Indescribable” and “the Unnamed”, and he was also called “Self-begotten” and “Self-willed”, because he revealed himself by his will, and he was called “Self-glorified”, because he revealed himself with the glory which he had; and he was also called “Invisible”, because he is hidden and is not seen. And it gave him another power, which from the beginning revealed the spark in this same place, which is called by the holy and all-perfect names, namely Protia, that is, the first. She is called Pandia, that is, she who exists in them all; she is also called Pangenia, that is, she who has begotten all; she is also called Doxogenia, for she is the bearer of glory; she is also called Doxophania, for she is the revealer of glory; she is also called Doxokratia, for she rules over glory; she is also called Arseno…","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 12 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/12).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/13":{"o":"","t":"… genia, that is, the bearer of the male; she is also called Loia(?), whose interpretation is “God with us”; she is also called Iouel, whose interpretation is “God for ever”; but she who commanded these powers to reveal themselves is called Phania, whose interpretation is “the revelation”. And the angel who revealed himself with them is called by the glories Doxogenes and Doxophanes, whose interpretation is “the begetter of glory” and “the revealer of glory”, because he is one of these glories which stand round this great power which is called Doxokrator, that is, at their revelation he ruled over great glories.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 13 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/13).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/14":{"o":"","t":"These are the powers which were given to the Forefather, who was placed in the aeon of the Mother. And myriads of myriads of glories and angels and archangels and liturgi were given to him, so that they might serve for him those who belong to matter. And authority over all things was given to him, and he created for himself a great aeon and placed in it a great Pleroma and a great sanctuary, and all the powers which he had received he placed in it. And he exulted with them, as he gave birth to his creatures anew at the command of the Father hidden in the Silence, who had sent him these riches. And the crown of fatherhood was given to him, for he had appointed him as father of those who had come into being after him. And then he cried out and said: “My children, whom I bring to birth until Christ is formed in you”, and again he cries out: “For I am ready to present to one husband, Christ, a holy virgin.” But since he had seen the grace which the hidden Father had granted him, he himself, the Forefather, wished to turn the All back to the hidden Father, for his wish is this, that the All should return to him. And when the Mother had seen these greatnesses which were granted to her Forefather, she rejoiced greatly and exulted. Therefore she says: “My heart is glad and my tongue rejoices.” Then she called upon the infinite power which stands by the hidden aeon of the Father and belongs to the great powers of glory, which is called by the glories Trigenethlos, that is, the thrice-begotten, who is also called Trigenes; and she is also called … . And she too asked the Hidden One before all things to send the Mother what she needs. And the hidden Father sent her the mystery which covers all the aeons and all the glories, which has an all-perfect, that is, a completed crown, and he placed it on the head of the great Invisible who is in him and is hidden, who is incorruptible and unbegotten, and (on the head) of the great power who is with him, who is called “bearer of the male” and will fill all the aeons with glory. And thus through him the All will be crowned.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 14 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/14).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/15":{"o":"","t":"And after that she set up the eternal Self-father and gave him the aeon of the Veiled One, in which the All is: the kinds, the species, the likenesses, the forms, the changes(?), the differences, the four changes, and the number and what is numbered, and the thinker and what is thought. And she set him up so that he might cover all that is in him and give to the one who asks him. And she gave him ten powers and nine Enneads and a Pentad of aeons; and lights were given to him, and authority over all the hidden ones was granted to him, so that he might grant favour to those who have contended. And they fled from the matter of the aeon, leaving it behind them, and fled up to the aeon of the Self-father and took to themselves the promise which had been promised them by him who says: “Whoever leaves father and mother, brother and sister, wife and child and possessions, and takes up his cross and follows me, will receive the promises which I have promised him; and I will give them the mystery of my hidden Father, because they have loved what is theirs and have fled from him who persecutes them by force.” And he gave them praise, joy, exultation, gladness, peace, hope, faith, love and unchangeable truth. And this is the Ennead which is granted to those who had fled from matter. And they became blessed and perfect, and they knew the true God and knew the mystery which came to man, for whose sake he has revealed himself, until they saw him, though he is invisible, and that for his sake he wrote down his word, until they knew him, fled to him, became God and became perfect.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 15 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/15).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/16":{"o":"","t":"After that the Mother set up her first-begotten Son and gave him the authority of the sonship and gave him hosts of angels and archangels and gave him twelve powers to serve him. And she gave him a garment, in which to accomplish all things, and in it are all bodies: the body of fire and the body of water and the body of air and the body of earth and the body of wind and the body of the angels and the body of the archangels and the body of the powers and the body of the mighty ones and the body of the gods and the body of the lords; in a word, all bodies are in it, so that no one may hinder him from going upward or going down to the underworld. And this is the First-begotten, to whom the inner and the outer have promised everything he will desire. And this is he who has separated all matter; and as he poured himself out over it “like a bird that spreads its wings over its young”, so the First-begotten did with matter and raised up myriads of myriads of species or kinds. When matter had become warm, it released the multitude of powers that are with him; and they sprouted up like grass, and it separated them according to kinds and according to species. And he gave them the law to love one another and to honour God, and to praise him and to search after him, who he is and what he is like, and to wonder at the place from which they have come out, for it is narrow and hard, and not to return to it again, but to follow him who gave them the law. And he sent them out of the darkness of matter, which is their mother, and told them that there was light, because they had not yet known of the light, whether it existed or not. Then he gave them the precept never to do violence to one another, and went from them to the place of the Mother of the All, to the Forefather and Self-father, so that they might give laws to those who had come out of matter.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 16 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/16).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/17":{"o":"","t":"And the Mother of the All and the Forefather and the Self-father and the First-begotten and the powers of the aeon of the Mother began a great hymn, praising the One Alone and saying of him: “You alone are the Infinite, and you alone are the Depth, and you alone are the Unknowable, and you are he after whom everyone searches, and they have not found you, for no one can know you against your will, and no one can praise you alone against your will. And your will alone it is that has become a place for you, for no one can become a place for you, for you are the place of them all. I ask you to give orders to those of the world and to give ordinances to my offspring according to your wish. And do not grieve my offspring, for no one has been grieved by you, and no one has known your counsel; you are he whom they all, the inner and the outer, lack, for you alone are an Incomprehensible, and you alone are the Invisible, and you alone are the one without substance; you alone have given characters to all creatures and have manifested them in yourself. You are the Demiurge of those who have not yet been manifested, for you alone know these; we do not know them. You alone show them to us, so that we may ask you on their account to reveal them to us, so that we may know them through you alone. You alone have brought yourself to the measure of the hidden worlds, until they knew you; you have granted them to know you, for you have begotten and created them in your bodiless body; for you have begotten man in your self-grown mind and in reflection and the perfect thought. This is the man begotten by the mind, to whom reflection has given form. You are he who have given all things to man. And he wore them like these garments and put them on like these robes and wrapped himself in the creation as in a cloak. This is the man whom the All implores to know. You alone have commanded man to reveal himself, and that you should be known through him, for you have begotten him, and you have revealed yourself according to your wish. You are he to whom I make supplication, you Father of all fatherhood and God of all gods and Lord of all lords, whom I ask to give orders to my species and my offspring, for whom I have prepared joy in your name and in your power. You sole Monarch and you alone Unchangeable, give me a power, and I will let my offspring know you, that you are their Saviour.”","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 17 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/17).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/18":{"o":"","t":"And when the Mother had long enough asked the Infinite and the Unknown and the one who fills the All and gives life to it all, he heard her and all her companions who belong to her, and sent her a power from the Man whom they desire to see. And from the Infinite came the infinite spark, at which the aeons wondered where it had been hidden before it was manifested in the infinite Father, who manifested the All in it, and where this one had been hidden. And the powers of the hidden aeons followed it until they came to the Manifest One and reached the holy Pleroma. And it hid itself in the powers of those who had come from the Hidden One, and made them into a world and carried it (the world) into the sanctuary. And the powers of the Pleroma saw it and loved it and praised it in hymns which are indescribable and unutterable with tongues of flesh, which man devises in himself. And it received their hymn and made it into a veil for their worlds, surrounding them like a wall; and it came to the boundaries of the Mother of the All and stood above the aeon of the All.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 18 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/18).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/19":{"o":"","t":"And the All was moved before the Lord of the whole earth, and the aeon was troubled and stood still, since it saw him whom it did not know. And the Lord of glory sat down and separated matter and divided it into two parts and into two regions; and he gave each region boundaries and taught them that they come from one Father and one Mother. And those who had fled to him worshipped him; he gave them the region on his right and granted them eternal life and immortality. And he called the (region) on the right “the region of life” and that on the left “the region of death”; and he called the region on the right “the region of light” and that on the left “the region of darkness”; and he called the region on the right “the region of rest” and the region on the left “the region of suffering”. And he drew boundaries and veils between them, so that they might not see one another, and set guardians at their veils. And he granted those who had worshipped him many honours (privileges), and made them exalted above those who had opposed him and set themselves against him. And he spread out the region on the right into many regions and made them into separate orders, separate aeons, separate worlds, separate heavens, separate firmaments, separate heavens (sic), separate places, separate localities and separate spaces. And he laid down laws for them and gave them ordinances: “Abide in my word, and I will give you eternal life and send you powers; and I will establish you in spirits of power and give you authority as you please. And no one will hinder you in what you wish; and you will beget for yourselves aeons, worlds and heavens, so that the intelligible spirits may come and dwell in them. And you will become gods and will know that you come from God, and you will see him, that he is God in you, and he will dwell in your aeon.” And the Lord of the All said these words to them and withdrew from them and hid himself from them.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 19 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/19).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/2":{"o":"","t":"The second place came into being, which will be called Demiurge and Father and Logos and Spring and Mind and Man and Eternal and Infinite. This is the pillar, this is the overseer; and this is the Father of the All, and this is he on whose head the aeons form a crown, casting forth rays. The outline of his face is unknowability in the outer worlds, which seek his face at all times, since they wish to know him, for his word has reached them and they desire to see him. And the light of his eyes reaches the places of the Pleroma outside, and the Word that comes from his mouth penetrates what is above and what is below. And the hair of his head is the number of the hidden worlds, and the boundary line of his face is the likeness of the aeons. The hairs of his face are the number of the outer worlds, and the spreading out of his hands is the revelation of the cross; the spreading out of the cross is the Ennead on the right and on the left; the shoot of the cross is the incomprehensible Man. This is the Father, this is the spring which wells up silence, this is he who is desired in all places. And this is the Father from whom the Monad came forth like a spark of light, compared with which all the worlds are as nothing …, since it (the Monad) is she who moved all things when she shone forth. And they received knowledge and life and hope and rest and love and resurrection and faith and rebirth and the seal. This is the Ennead which came from the Father of the Rulerless, who is father and mother to himself alone, whose Pleroma surrounds the twelve depths. 1. The first depth is the All-spring, from which all springs have come forth. 2. The second depth is the All-wise, from whom all the wise have come forth. 3. The third depth is the All-mystery, from which or out of which all mysteries have come forth. 4. The fourth depth is the All-knowledge, from which all knowledges have come forth. 5. The fifth depth is the All-pure, from which all that is pure has come forth. 6. The sixth depth is the Silence, from which every silence (has come forth). 7. The seventh depth is the All-essential, from which all essences have come forth. (8.) The eighth depth is the Forefather, from whom or out of whom all forefathers have come into being. (9.) The ninth depth is an All-father and Self-father, that is, in him are all fatherhoods, he being father in relation to them alone. 10. The tenth depth is the All-powerful, from whom all powers have come forth. 11. The eleventh depth is that in which the first Invisible is, from whom all the invisibles have come forth. 12. The twelfth depth is the Truth, from which all truth has come forth. This is the Truth which covers them all; this is the image of the Father, this is the mirror of the All, this is the mother of all the aeons, this is she who surrounds all the depths. This is the Monad which is unknown or unknowable, this one without character, in whom all characters are, who is blessed for ever. This is the eternal Father; this is the indescribable, unthinkable, incomprehensible, unsurpassable Father; this is he in whom the All became without substance; and it (the All) rejoiced and exulted and in its joy gave birth to myriads of myriads of aeons; they were called “the births of joy”, because it (the All) rejoiced with the Father. These are the worlds from which the cross sprouted, and from these bodiless members the Man came into being. This is the Father and the spring of all, whose members are all perfect, and all names have come from the Father, whether unutterable or incorruptible or unknown or invisible or simple or still or power or all-power, or all the names in the silence, which have all come into being from the Father, whom all the outer worlds see like the stars of the firmament at night. As people desire to see the sun, so the outer worlds also desire to see him, because of his invisibility which is round about him. He gives life to the aeons at all times, and through his word the Indivisible has come to know the Monad, so as to know it(?), and through his word the holy Pleroma came into being.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 2 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/2).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/20":{"o":"","t":"And the offspring of matter rejoiced that they had been remembered, and rejoiced that they had come out of the narrow and hard place, and asked the hidden mystery: “Give us authority to create for ourselves aeons and worlds according to your word, which you, O Lord, agreed with your servant; for you alone are the Unchangeable, and you alone are the Infinite and alone the Incomprehensible, and you alone are the Unbegotten and Self-begotten and Self-father, and you alone are the Unshakable and Unknown, and you alone are the Silence and the Love and the spring of the All, and you alone are the Immaterial and the Undefiled and the one indescribable as to his generation and incomprehensible as to his revelation. Come, hear me, you incorruptible Father and you immortal Father and you God of the hidden ones and you sole light and life, and you alone Invisible and you alone Unutterable and you alone Undefiled and you alone Invincible and you alone the first Existent, and no one exists before you. Hear our supplication, with which we have implored the one hidden in every place; hear us and send us bodiless spirits, so that they may dwell with us and teach us about what you have promised us, and dwell in us, and we may be bodies for them; for your wish is that it should happen; may it happen. And give our work a commandment and set it up according to your wish and according to the commandment of the hidden aeons, and appoint us yourself, for we are yours.” And he heard them and sent forth separating powers, which know the commandment of the hidden aeons. He sent them forth according to the commandment of the hidden ones and set up orders according to the orders of the height and according to the hidden commandment. They began from below to above, so that the building might be joined together. And he created the air-earth as a dwelling place for those who had come forth, so that they might remain on it until the establishment of those below them; after that the real dwelling place; within this the place of repentance; within this the … antitypes; after that the sojourning, the repentance; within that the self-begotten antitypes. In that place they wash themselves in the name of the Self-begotten, who is God over them; and powers have been set in that place by the spring of the water of life, which were brought forth as they came. These are the names of the powers by the living water: Michar and Micheu, and they are purified by Barpharanges. And within these (he created) the aeons of Sophia; within these the truth in bodily form; in that place are the Pistis Sophia and the pre-existent, living Jesus, and the … and his twelve aeons. In that place were set Sellao, Eleinos, Zogenethles, Selmelche, and the Self-begotten of the aeons, and in him were placed four lights: Eleleth, Daveithe (sic), Oroiael …","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 20 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/20).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/21":{"o":"","t":"… (in)comprehensible; they have not comprehended him (as) Father of the All and also (as) … of the All and (as) … of the All (and) the one without substance, invisible, (un)knowable, infinite (and) unknown, in(comprehensible) as to his un(touchable), unapproachable image, (whose) framing by it thus, which (in) its bodilessness bounds them all and (bounds) them all in bodilessness and in being without substance. This is the unspeakable, unutterable, unknown, invisible, immeasurable and infinite Father. He in himself has brought himself to the measure of those who are in him, and the thought of his greatness he has brought to the measure of being without substance, until he made them without substance. But he is incomprehensible; by his own members he has made himself a place for his members, so that they may dwell in him and know him, that he is their Father and that he has emanated them from his first thought, which (the thought) became a place for them and made them without substance, so that they might come to know him. For he was unknowable to everyone; this one became his light … in the form (of a) … and in the form (of a) … and in the form of a … to them in the (thought) of his greatness. He brought (them) out of his thought, and his members (became without substance. They), however, are in this place in(comprehensible?); each of them (makes) a myriad in his members, and each saw him (as the) Son, that he was perfect for (himself). And the Father sealed (him) as his Son in (their) interior, (so that) they might come to know him in their interior. And the name moved them in their interior, so that they might see the Invisible and Unknowable; and they praised the One Alone and the Thought which is in him and the intelligible Logos, praising the three who are one, for through him they have become without substance. And the Father took their whole likeness and made it into a city or a man; he painted the All after him, that is, all these powers. Each one knew him in this city; each began myriads of praises to the Man or to the city of the Father who is in the All. And the Father took the praise and made it a garment outside for the Man, which … [A leaf is lost.] … (framed?) him. And he made his belly after the type of the holy Pleroma; and he made his nerves, which go out from one another, after the type of a hundred myriads less four myriads of powers; and he made the fingers in the likeness of the two Decads, the hidden Decad and the manifest Decad; and he made the navel of his belly in the likeness of the Monad hidden in Setheus; and he made the great bowel in the likeness of Setheus, who is lord over the Pleroma; and he made the small bowels in the likeness of the Ennead of Setheus; and he made his womb after the type of the interior of the holy (Pleroma); and he made his knees after the type of the Still One and the Unknown, who serve the All and rejoice with those who will be saved; and he made his members after the type of the depth, in which are 365 fatherhoods after the type of the fatherhoods; and he made the hairs of his body after the type of the worlds of the Pleroma, and filled him with wisdom after the manner of the All-wise, and filled him within with mysteries after the manner of Setheus, and filled him without after the manner of the Indivisible; and he made him ungraspable after the type of the Ungraspable, who is in every place, who alone is in the All and whom no one grasps; and he made him surrounding one another after the type of the Veiled One, who covers all the hidden mysteries; and he made his (right) foot after the type of the Indivisible (and it is called the right) foot; (and he made the) four corners after the type of the four gates; and he made the two thighs after the type of the myriarchs, those on the right and on the left; and he made his private parts after the type of those who go out and come in; and he made the two hips in (the type of the) Silence, (and) he made (the legs?) on him(?), (the one after the) type of Aphredon, (the) other after the type of (Mus)anios; and he made his feet, the right (foot) after the type (of the) All-manifest and the left foot after the type of the Mother below them all.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 21 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/21).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/22":{"o":"","t":"And this is the Man who is created according to every aeon, and the All has desired (to know) him. This is the All-perfect, and (this) is the Man of God, who is himself God, and an Invisible and an Unknown and an All-still and an Incomprehensible and an Unshakable. It is not fitting to curse him; it is fitting to praise him, as he(?) says: “I praise you, O Father of all fathers of the light. I praise you, O Infinite of the light, (who) are more excellent than all the infinites. I praise you, O Incomprehensible of the light, who surpass all the incomprehensibles. I praise you, O Unutterable of the light, who are before all the unutterables. I praise you, O Incorruptible of the light, (who) are more excellent than all the incorruptibles. (I praise) you, O spring of the light, from which(?) (all) light (comes). (I) praise (you), O Indescribable of the light. (I praise) you, O you who do not think (yourself) of the light. I (praise) you, O Unbegotten of the light. I praise you, O Self-(grown) of the light. I praise (you, O) Forefather of the light, (who) are more excellent than all forefathers. (I praise you, O) Invisible of the light, who are before (all) invisibles. (I) praise you, O Thought (of the) light, which is more excellent than all thoughts. I praise you, O God of the light, who are before all gods. I praise you, O Knowledge, which is light more than all knowledges. I praise you, O Unknown of the light, who are before all the unknown. I praise you, Still One of the light, who are before all the still. I praise (you), O All-powerful of the light, you who are more excellent than all the all-powerful. I praise you, O Thrice-powerful of the light, you who are more excellent than all the thrice-powerful. I praise you, O Inseparable of the light, but you are the one who separates all (light). I praise you, O Pure One of the light, you who are more excellent than all the pure. I praise (you), as you speak of all … I praise (you, who) comprehend all things, whom (no one) comprehends. I praise (you, who contain the All, whom no one) contains. (I praise you, who) have begotten (them all) in unbegottenness, (because) no one has begotten him. I (praise) you, O spring of the All (and) of them all. I praise (you), O truly Self-begotten of the light, (who are before all) the self-begotten. (I) praise you, O truly Unshakable (of the) light, you (light) for those who have moved in your light. I praise you, O Silence of all silence of the light. I praise you, O Saviour of (all) saviours of the light. I praise (you), O alone Incomprehensible of the light. I praise you, (who) alone are the place of all places (of the) All. I praise (you), O alone Wise and (who) alone (are) Wisdom. I praise (you), O sole All-mystery. (I) praise you, O alone All-perfect of the (light). I praise you, O alone (Un)touchable. I praise you, as he gives … (I praise) you, O Good One, (who reveal all) good things. I praise you, O Light, who alone reveal (all light). I praise (you), who awaken (all) mind (and who) give life to all souls. (I praise you), O rest of those who … (I) praise you, who (dwell in) all the fatherhoods from (the beginning) until now; they seek (you), for you are their (seeking. Come?), hear the prayer of the (man?) in all places, who (prays with) his whole heart.” This is the (Father) of all fathers and (the God) of all gods and (the Lord) of all lords and (the Son) of all sons (and) the Saviour of (all) saviours and the Invisible of all invisibles and (the Silence) of all silence and (the) Infinite of all infinites, the Incomprehensible of all incomprehensibles, (and the) one below the world of (all) those below the world, and place of all places, the one alone intelligible, who exists before (all) mind, and further mind, (who is) before all mind, (and an) Incomprehensible, who (comprehends all), a Formless One, (who is before) all forms, (existing before) all and (spread out before?) all … and existing (before?) all (places?) and (existing before) all heights, and (he is a) Wise One more than (all) wisdoms and a Holy One more than all (the holy) and a Good One more than all the good. He is the seed of all good things; he is also pregnant with them all, the Self-grown or the sole offspring, who exists before the All, who begot himself alone, who exists at all times. He is self-begotten and eternal, who has no name and to whom all names belong, who knows before the All, who contemplates the All and looks on the All, who hears the All, who is mightier than all powers, into whose incomprehensible face no one can look. This is the one who exists in a single form, and without substance, and still, and unknown, and he is the All-mystery and the All-wise (and) the Rulerless (and the) …, to whom belong all … which are in (him); and all (the lights) are in (him, and in him) is all life, (and in him) is (all) rest, and in him is (all) … and … and the Mother and (in him) the (Son). This is the (only) Blessed One, for the All has need of him; for (all) are alive for his sake, as it is he who (knows) the All (in himself), who contemplates the All in himself, an Incomprehensible, yet he himself grasps the All and receives it, and nothing exists outside him, but the All exists in him, as he is the boundary for them all and encloses them all, and all exist in him. He is the Father of the aeons, existing before them all; there is no place outside him, there is nothing intelligible, nor anything at all, outside this One Alone, as they behold his incomprehensibility, which exists in them all, for he gives them all boundaries, but they have not comprehended him; they wonder that he gives boundaries to them all; they strive … [The rest is lost.]","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 22 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/22).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/3":{"o":"","t":"This is the Father, the second Demiurge; through the breath of his mouth Providence brought forth what did not exist. It (what did not exist) came into being through his will, for he commands the All to come into being. He created the holy Pleroma in this way: four gates, and in it (the Pleroma) there are four Monads, one Monad for each gate, and six helpers for each gate, making twenty-four helpers, and twenty-four myriads of powers for each gate, and nine Enneads for each gate, and ten Decads for each gate, and twelve Dodecads for each gate, and five Pentads of powers for each gate, and an overseer who has three faces — an unbegotten face and a true face and an unutterable face — for each gate. One of his faces looks out of the gate to the outer aeons, and the other looks on Setheus, and the third looks upward and on the sonship in each Monad; there is Aphredon with his twelve righteous ones; there is the Forefather; there is Adam, who belongs to the light, and his 365 aeons; and there is the perfect Mind, as they surround a basket which is in immortality. The unutterable face of the overseer looks on the Holy of Holies, that is, on the Infinite, who is the head of the sanctuary. He has two faces; the one is open to the place of the depth, and the other is open to the place of the overseer, who is called “the Child”. And there is there a depth which is called “the Light” or “the Shining One”, in which an Only-begotten is hidden, who reveals three powers and is mighty in all powers. This is the Indivisible; this is he who was never divided; this is he to whom the All has opened, for the powers belong to him. He has three faces: an invisible face and an all-powerful face and an Aphredon face, which is called “Aphredon Pexos”, and in him an Only-begotten is hidden, that is, the Thrice-powerful. When the thought comes from the depth, Aphredon takes the thought and brings it to the Only-begotten, and the Only-begotten brings it to “the Child”, and they bring it to all the aeons as far as the place of the Thrice-powerful, and they are perfected and brought to the five Unbegotten.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 3 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/3).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/4":{"o":"","t":"There is yet another place, which is called “depth”. There are three fatherhoods in it. The first (Father) there is the Veiled One, that is, the hidden God; and in the second Father stand the five trees, and in their midst there is a table, and an only-begotten Logos stands by the table; and the Mind of the All has twelve faces, and the prayer of each is brought to him. This is he over whom the All has rejoiced, because he has revealed himself; and this is he whom the Indivisible strove to know; and this is he for whose sake the Man has revealed himself. In the third (Father) are the Silence and the spring, on which twelve righteous ones look and see themselves in it. And in him are Love and the Mind of the All and five seals, and after that the All-mother, in whom the Ennead has revealed itself, whose names are these: Protia, Pandia, Pangenia, Doxophania, Doxogenia, Doxokratia, Arsenogenia, Loia(?), Iouel. This is the first Unknown, the mother of the Ennead, which is completed into a Decad from the Monad of the Unknown.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 4 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/4).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/5":{"o":"","t":"After this there is another place, which is broad and has a great wealth hidden in it, which furnishes the All, that is, the immeasurable depth. There is there a table, round which three greatnesses are gathered: a Still One, an Unknown One and an Infinite One, in whose midst there is a sonship which is called “Christ, the Examiner”, who examines each one and seals him with the seal of the Father, sending them to the first Father, who exists by himself — he through whom all things came into being and without whom nothing came into being. And this Christ bears twelve faces: an infinite face, an incomprehensible face, an unutterable face, a simple face, an incorruptible face, a still face, an unknown face, an invisible face, a thrice-powerful face, an unshakable face, an unbegotten face and a pure face. That place has twelve springs, which are called “the rational springs”, which are filled with eternal life, which are also called “the depths”; and they are also called “the twelve spaces”, because they contain all the places of fatherhood and the fruit of the All, which it (the All) brings forth. This is Christ, who contains the All.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 5 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/5).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/6":{"o":"","t":"After all these (comes) the depth of Setheus, who is within them all, whom twelve fatherhoods surround; and he is in their midst; each (Father) has three faces. The first among them is the Indivisible; he has three faces: an infinite face, an invisible face and an unutterable face. And the second Father is an incomprehensible face, an unshakable face and an undefiled face. The third Father has an unknown face, an incorruptible face and an Aphredon face. The fourth Father has a face of silence, a face of the spring and an untouchable face. The fifth Father has a still face, an all-powerful face and an unbegotten face. The sixth Father has an All-father face, a Self-father face and a First-father face. The seventh Father has an All-mystery face, an all-wise face and an All-spring face. The eighth Father has a face of light, a face of rest and a face of resurrection. The ninth Father has a veiled face, a first-appearing face and a self-begotten face. But the tenth Father has a thrice-male face, an Adamas face and a pure face. And the eleventh Father has a thrice-powerful face, a perfect face and a spark face. The twelfth Father has a face of truth, a face of providence and a face of thought. These are the twelve Fathers who surround Setheus and who make thirty-six in their number. And those who are outside them have received characters from them; and therefore they praise them at all times. Twelve others surround his head, on whose head there is a crown, which casts rays into the worlds that surround them from the light of the Only-begotten hidden in him, the one whom they seek.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 6 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/6).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/7":{"o":"","t":"The subject, then, — so that we may grasp it through those who can describe it more excellently — as for us, they are not able to understand it in another way, that is, we. For to describe him with a tongue of flesh as he is — that is an impossibility. For they are great ones, more excellent than the powers, so that they perceive it by a thought, and they follow him, unless they were to meet a kinsman of those in someone who is able to perceive concerning the places from which he came. For everything follows its root; because man is a kinsman of the mysteries, therefore he has perceived the mystery. The powers of all the great aeons paid homage to the power that is in Marsanes and said: “Who is he who has seen this before his face, that he has revealed himself in this way on his account?” Nicotheos spoke of him and saw him, for he is that one. He said: “The Father is exalted above all the perfect.” He has revealed the Invisible, Thrice-powerful, Perfect One; each of the perfect men has seen him; they described him, praising him in their own way. This is the Only-begotten hidden in Setheus; this is he who has been called “the light-darkness”; because of the fullness of his light they were darkened with regard to themselves alone. This is he through whom Setheus is king; this is the Only-begotten. In his right hand are twelve fatherhoods after the type of the twelve apostles, and in his left are thirty powers, each making twelve, and each has two faces after the type of Setheus. The one face looks on the inner depth, and the other looks on the Thrice-powerful. And each of the fatherhoods in his right hand makes 365 powers, according to the word which David spoke, saying: “I will praise the crown of the year in your goodness.” All these powers, then, surround the Only-begotten like a crown, illuminating the aeons in the light of the Only-begotten, as it is written: “In your light we shall see light.” And the Only-begotten is set over them, as it is also written: “The chariot of God is ten-thousandfold”, and again: “Thousands are glad, in whom the Lord is.” This is he who dwells in the Monad which is in Setheus, which came forth from the place of which no one will be able to say where it is — which came forth from this one who exists before the All. This is the One alone; this is he from whom the Monad came like a ship laden with all good things, and like a field filled or planted with every kind of tree, and like a city filled with every kind of people and all the statues of the king. Thus all are in the Monad. Twelve Monads form a crown on its head, each making twelve; and there are ten Decads round about its shoulders, and round its body nine Enneads, and at its feet seven Hebdomads, each making a Hebdomad. And its veil, which surrounds it like a tower, has twelve gates; at each gate there are twelve myriads of powers, and they are called “archangels” and also “angels”. This is the metropolis of the Only-begotten; this is the Only-begotten whom Phosilampes described: “He exists before the All”, who came forth from the Infinite and the characterless and formless and the Self-begotten, who begot himself, and who came forth from the Indescribable and Immeasurable, who truly exists in reality, in whom the truly Existent exists; that is, the incomprehensible Father exists in his only-begotten Son. The All rests in the Indescribable and Unutterable and Rulerless and Untroubled, whose deity, which is itself no deity, no one can describe. And when Phosilampes had understood him, he said: “For his sake the truly existent in reality and the truly non-existent are, he for whose sake the truly hidden existent and the truly manifest non-existent exist.” This is the truly only-begotten God; this is he whom the All has come to know. It (the All) became God and surpassed this name “God”. This is he of whom John said: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and God was the Word; without him nothing came into being, and what came into being in him is the life.” This is the Only-begotten who is in the Monad, who dwells in it as in a city; and this is the Monad which is in Setheus as in a thought. This is Setheus, who dwells in the sanctuary as king and God. This is the Logos-Demiurge; this is he who commands the All to work. This is the Mind-Demiurge according to the command of God the Father, whom the creation worships as God and as Lord and as Saviour, and as those subject to him; whom the All admires for his adornment and beauty; on whose head the All, the inner ones, form a crown, and the outer ones are at his feet, and the middle ones surround him, praise him and say: “Holy, holy, holy is he, [vowels], that is: you are living among the living, and you are holy among the holy, and you are existing among the existing, and you are Father among the fathers, and you are God among the gods, and you are Lord among the lords, and you are place among the places.” And they praise him and say: “You are the house, and you are he who dwells in the house”; and further they praise and say to the Son hidden in him: “You are, you are the Only-begotten, the light and the life and the grace.” [8] Then Setheus sent the spark to the Indivisible, and it shone forth and illuminated the whole place of the holy Pleroma. And they saw the light of the spark and rejoiced and raised myriads of myriads of praises to Setheus and to the spark of light which had revealed itself, since they had seen that the likeness of them all was in it. And they painted the spark among themselves as a man of light and truth and called him the All-formed and the Pure; and they called him “unshakable”, and all the aeons called him “the All-powerful”. This is the servant of the aeons, and he serves the Pleroma. And the Indivisible sent the spark out of the Pleroma, and the Thrice-powerful descends to the places of the Self-begotten. And they saw the grace of the aeons of the light, which was bestowed on them, and rejoiced that the Existent One had come to them. Then the veils opened, and the light reached down to the matter below and to those which have no form and no likeness; and in this way they acquired the likeness of the light. Some rejoiced that the light had come to them and that they had become rich; others wept that they had become poor and that what was theirs had been taken from them. And so it went with the grace which had come forth. Therefore they were taken captive in a captivity …","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 7 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/7).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/8":{"o":"","t":"… they were taken captive, and they praised the aeons which had received the spark among them. Guardians were sent to them, namely Gamaliel, Strempsuchos, Agramas and his companions; they helped those who had believed in the spark of the light.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 8 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/8).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"},"bruce-codex-untitled/9":{"o":"","t":"And in the place of the Indivisible there are twelve springs, over which are twelve fatherhoods, which surround the Indivisible like these depths or like these veils. And on the head of the Indivisible there is a crown, in which is every kind of life, and every thrice-powerful kind, and every incomprehensible kind, and every infinite kind, and every unutterable kind, and every kind of silence, and every unknown kind, and every still kind, and every unshakable kind, and every first-appearing kind, and every self-begotten kind, and every kind of truth — in which all is. And this is he in whom every kind and every knowledge is; and every power receives light from him, and every mind has been revealed in him. This is the crown which the Father of the All has given to the Indivisible, in which are 365 kinds, and they are shining and fill the All with incorruptible and unquenchable light. This is the crown which gives power to every power; and this is the crown for whose sake all the immortals pray; and from it those who first revealed themselves in the will of the Unknowable — that is, Protia, Pandia, Pangenia, they and their companions — will give to the Invisible on the day of joy. And after the Invisible all the aeons will receive their crown from it and hasten upward with the Invisible, as there all receive crowns from the crown of the Indivisible. And the All will receive its completion from the Indestructible; and therefore those who have received bodies pray, wishing to leave their body, to receive the crown which is laid up for them in the indestructible aeon. And this is the Indivisible who has fought the contest for the All, and all things were bestowed on him by him who is exalted above all things, and the immeasurable depth was bestowed on him, the fatherhoods in it being beyond counting. And this is he whose Ennead is without character. And in it are the characters of the whole creation, whose Ennead forms twelve Enneads, and in whose midst there is a place which is called the “God-bearing” or “God-begetting land”. This is the land of which it is said: “He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread and will raise up his threshing floor”, and again: “The king of the field, when it is worked, is over all.” And all these powers which are in this “God-begetting land” are crowned on their heads. Therefore the receivers are recognized by the crown on their heads, whether they come from the Indivisible or not. And in it there is also the All-mother, in whom are seven wisdoms and nine Enneads and ten Decads. And in their midst is a great basket, and a great Invisible stands by it, and a great Unbegotten and a great Incomprehensible, each having three faces. And the prayer, the praise and the hymn of the creatures are laid in that basket, which is in the midst of the All-mother and in the midst of the seven wisdoms and in the midst of the nine Enneads and in the midst of the ten Decads. And all these stand by the basket, perfected in the fruit of the aeons, which the Only-begotten hidden in the Indivisible commands them, before whom there is a spring, which twelve righteous ones surround. And each has a crown on his head and has twelve powers, which surround him and praise the king, the Only-begotten, and say: “For your sake we have borne the glory, and through you we have seen the Father of the All, [vowels], and the Mother of all things, hidden in every place, that is, the Thought of all the aeons. And she is the Thought of all the gods and all the lords; and she is the knowledge of all the invisibles; and your image is the Mother of all the incomprehensibles, and she is the power of all the infinites.” And they praise the Only-begotten and say: “Because of your image we saw you, fled to you, stood by you, and received the unfading crown which has been known through you. Glory to you for ever, O Only-begotten.” And all said together: Amen. And he became a body of light and entered the aeons of the Indivisible, until he reached the Only-begotten who is in the Monad, who dwells in a quiet or in a stillness. And he received the grace of the Only-begotten, that is, his goodness, and he received the eternal crown. This is the father of all sparks, and this is the head of all immortal bodies, and this is he for whose sake resurrection was granted to the bodies.","f":"Untitled Bruce, <i>Untitled Bruce</i> 9 (Schmidt, GCS 13; trans. Sophia Scriptura from the German of C. Schmidt, 1905, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/bruce-codex-untitled/9).","by":"Claude, from C. Schmidt (1905)"}}