First Book of Jeu

Contents

Translated from Schmidt's German (route 3); the German is not published.

Reading pages: 1–20 · 21–40 · 41

1. 1The book opens as the book of the knowledge of the invisible God taught by the living Jesus, who says that the one who crucifies the world is the one who finds and fulfils his word.
2. 2The apostles say they have left everything; Jesus tells them that the Father's life is to receive a soul of mind instead of earth, to be saved from the archon of this aeon, and to be made free and whole.
3. 3Jesus explains that to bring heaven down is to know his word, and to send earth to heaven is for the hearer's mind to become heavenly instead of earthly; one born in the flesh of unrighteousness or knowing him after the flesh has no part in the kingdom.
4. 4Jesus explains that the flesh he means is the flesh of ignorance; after a gap, he describes how the Father caused the true God, called Jeu, to come forth as head over the treasuries and to bring forth emanations that fill them.
5. 6Jesus describes how, at his calling on the Father's name, a power of the Father moved the true God to utter a voice, by which the first treasury and its guardians and orders came forth.
6. 7The second treasury is described with its three guardians and its twelve orders, each with twelve heads, from which Jesus will take twelve for his service.
7. 8The next treasury is described with its guardians at the gates and its twelve emanations, each with twelve heads.
8. 9The series of Jeus continues with the 4th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
9. 10The series of Jeus continues with the 5th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
10. 11The series of Jeus continues with the 6th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
11. 12The series of Jeus continues with the 7th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
12. 13The series of Jeus continues with the 8th and the 9th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
13. 15The series of Jeus continues with the 10th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
14. 16The series of Jeus continues with the 11th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
15. 17The series of Jeus continues with the 12th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
16. 18The series of Jeus continues with the 14th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
17. 19The series of Jeus continues with the 15th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
18. 20The series of Jeus continues with the 16th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
19. 21The series of Jeus continues with the 17th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
20. 22The series of Jeus continues with the 18th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
21. 23The series of Jeus continues with the 19th and the 20th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
22. 25The series of Jeus continues with the 21st Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
23. 26The series of Jeus continues with the 22nd Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
24. 27The series of Jeus continues with the 23rd Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
25. 28The series of Jeus continues with the 24th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
26. 29The series of Jeus continues with the 25th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
27. 30The series of Jeus continues with the 26th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
28. 31The series of Jeus continues with the 27th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
29. 32The series of Jeus continues with the 28th Jeu: his three guardians, his twelve emanations, and the orders of his treasury.
30. 33After a lacuna, Jesus finishes the description of one treasury and leads the disciples to the 55th, explaining the orders of paternities and the seal, number and name that open the way.
31. 34Jesus and his order come to the 56th treasury, and he gives the seal, number and name by which the guardians, orders and veils withdraw.
32. 35Jesus and his order come to the 57th treasury, and he gives the seal, number and name by which the guardians, orders and veils withdraw.
33. 36Jesus and his order come to the 58th treasury, and he gives the seal, number and name by which the guardians, orders and veils withdraw.
34. 37Jesus and his order come to the 59th treasury, and he gives the seal, number and name by which the guardians, orders and veils withdraw.
35. 38At the sixtieth and last treasury Jesus explains its diagram, its places, orders, gates and guardians, gives its seal, and concludes the account of all the treasuries from that of the true God onward.
36. 39Asked why the places and treasuries exist, Jesus explains that they came from the small thought the Father left behind, from which he himself shone forth as the first emanation, and he tells the disciples how to pass through to the place of the true God.
37. 40At the disciples' request Jesus gives them the one great name of the power in all the places, with its seal, number and ritual, by which all the treasuries open as far as the place of the true God, and warns them not to say it constantly.
38. 41Standing with the Twelve in the seventh inner treasury, Jesus sings a hymn of praise to the unapproachable God for each stage of the emanation of the treasuries, and the disciples answer each praise with a threefold Amen.