First Book of Jeu 41

Translated by Claude from C. Schmidt's German translation (1905) of the Coptic; neither is shown

When he had told it to them, he said to them, standing in the treasury of the ‘Inner Ones’: “Follow me.” And they followed him. He went into the treasuries and came to the seventh treasury within and stopped in that place. And he said to them, the Twelve: “All of you, surround me.” And they all surrounded him. He said to them: “Answer me and praise with me, so that I may praise my Father for the emanation of all the treasuries.” And he began to sing a hymn, praising his Father and saying thus: “I praise you, that is, the one with the great name of the Father, whose signs are of this type: [signs]; for you have withdrawn into yourself wholly in truth, until you let go the place of this small thought, not drawing it to yourself; for what then is your will, O unapproachable God?” Then he had his disciples answer: Amen, Amen, Amen, three times. He said to them again: “Repeat after me ‘Amen’ at each praise.” Again he said: “I praise you, O God, my Father, for you have caused the place of this small thought to shine forth in you; for what then, O unapproachable God?” Then they said: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times. Then he said: “I praise you, O unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself, your will being that he should shine forth; for what then, O unapproachable God?” They said again: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times. “I praise you, O unapproachable God, for by your own desire I shone forth in you, being a single emanation, and set myself free from you. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, O (unapproachable God), for you have emanated me, being a single emanation. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, for you have set me before you, I being your whole likeness and your whole image, and you were pleased with me. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, you unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself as this small thought. You have emanated the second emanation and spread it out into places which surround you. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, O (unapproachable God), for you shone forth in yourself. You have emanated the third emanation, that is, the one which you caused to come into being as you spread yourself out into all these places. For what then, O (unapproachable God), is further your will, that all this should come into being?” Then they said: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, (O unapproachable God, for you shone forth in) yourself. You have also emanated this emanation and set it over all the places; for what then, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they said: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, for you shone forth in yourself. You have emanated names and given them the name ‘treasury’; for what then, O (unapproachable God)?” They said: (Amen, Amen, Amen three times), O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, for you shone forth in yourself. You have emanated places and caused them to come into being in all the treasuries. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, you unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself. You have emanated a power; it moved these heads, so that you might give each of them the name ‘true God’. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, you unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself. You have emanated a power; it moved the true God to move also the other emanations which are over the treasuries, so that they might emanate other emanations, and you set them all up as orders in the treasuries. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, you unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself. You have emanated an emanation, so that it might bring forth guardians according to the treasuries, from the first to the last of them all. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, you unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself. You have emanated an emanation and caused it to bring forth sixty emanations, that is, these paternities, and you have appointed each as god(?) according to the treasuries, from the first to the last of them all, that is, those whom you have given to the … orders of the five trees. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, you unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself. You have emanated a great power and moved it to bring forth seals. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, you unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself. You have brought forth for us this great name which you have given us, that is, the one which you have spoken, so that all the places may withdraw; for what then, O (unapproachable God)?” They answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, you unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself. You have emanated a mystery from yourself. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, you unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself. You have emanated an image of light and set it up surrounding you yourself. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, you unapproachable God in other places; you are unapproachable in them, in these places of this great Logos according to the mystery. You have put your greatness into them, it being again your will that one should approach you in them. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, you unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself. You have emanated an emanation from the beginning, wishing to spread out all the places. You called it (the emanation) ‘Jeu’, so that those in all the places might be called ‘Jeu’, so that they might be made kings over them all. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, you unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself. You have emanated your own mystery, you who are an unapproachable God in the logoi; you are unapproachable in them in this great Logos according to the mystery of Jeu, the Father of all the Jeus, which you yourself are. For what then is your own will, that one should approach you in them, O (unapproachable God), to whom one has drawn near in this great Logos according to the mystery of Jeu, the greatest of all fathers, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen three times), O (unapproachable God). “(I praise you, you unapproachable God, for you shone forth in yourself). You have withdrawn into yourself wholly, into your whole image and your whole thought, and have left behind a small thought, so that you might reveal your great riches and your whole greatness and your great mysteries. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (Amen, Amen, Amen) three times, O (unapproachable God). “I praise you, Father existing from the beginning, who have emanated the root of all this greatness of this small thought. For what then is your will, that all this should come into being, O (unapproachable God)?” Then they answered: (You are) the unapproachable (God), Amen, Amen, Amen, three times, (O unapproachable God).