Second Book of Jeu 49–51

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

But Jesus said to his disciples: “I will give you the defence of all these places, I who have given you their mystery, their baptisms, their offerings, their seals, all their receivers, their numbers, their true names and their defences concerning the manner of calling on them, in order to reach their places, so that you may pass into the interior of all of them; I will tell you the names of their defences and their numbers. Now, then, hear, so that I may speak to you concerning the going forth of your soul, since I have told you all these mysteries and their seals and their names. When you come out of the body and perform these mysteries, all the aeons and all their inhabitants will withdraw, until you reach these six great aeons. But these will flee to the west, to the left, with all their archons and all their inhabitants. But when you reach the six aeons, they will hold you back until you receive the mystery of the forgiveness of sins; for it is the great mystery which is in the treasuries of the Inner of the Inner, and it is the whole salvation of the soul. And everyone who receives that mystery is more excellent than all the gods and all the dominions of all these aeons, that is, of the twelve aeons of the invisible God, for it is the great mystery of the Unapproachable, who is in the treasuries of the Inner of the Inner. Therefore every person who believes in the Son of the light must receive the mystery of the forgiveness of sins, so that he may be wholly perfect and complete in all the mysteries, for it is the mystery of the forgiveness of sins. Whoever, then, receives any of these mysteries must receive the mystery of the forgiveness of sins. Therefore I say to you: when you receive the mystery of the forgiveness of sins, all the sins which you have committed knowingly and unknowingly, which you have committed from your childhood until this day and until the loosing of the bond of the flesh of Fate, will all be blotted out, because you have received the mystery of the forgiveness of sins. And when you are about to come out of the body and have performed its mystery and also its defence, all the aeons and all their inhabitants withdraw. Again they flee to the west, to the left, because you have received the mystery of the forgiveness of sins. And when all the aeons have withdrawn, then the light of the treasury cleanses the twelfth aeon, so that all the ways by which you go up may be cleansed. And the Treasury of the Light will become visible, and you will look on heaven from below and see that the ways of the places of all the aeons are all cleansed, because all the aeons with all their inhabitants have fled to the west, to the left. Again, when the ways are cleansed, I will give you the mystery of the forgiveness of sins, its defences, its seals, its numbers and their interpretations. But you, my disciples, when you receive these and go out of the body, will become pure light and hasten upward one after another and go up into the places in which all the aeons are spread out, until there is no one on the ways, until you reach the treasuries of the light. Then the guardians of the gates of the Treasury of the Light see the mystery of the forgiveness of sins which you have performed, and its defences and all its commandments, and they behold the seal on your foreheads and see the number in your hands. Then the nine guardians open to you the gates of the Treasury of the Light, and you go into the Treasury of the Light. The guardians do not speak with you, but they will give you (their) seals and their mystery.

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

Again, when you reach the order of the three Amens, the three Amens give you their seal and their mystery. And they will also give you the great name, and you will pass through their interior. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the ‘Child of the Child’. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the twin saviours. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the great Sabaoth, who belongs to the Treasury of the Light. When you reach it, he will seal you with his seal and give you his mystery and the great name. Again you will go into his interior as far as the order of the great Iao, the Good, who belongs to the Treasury of the Light. When you reach it, he will give you his mystery, his seal and the great name. Again you will go into his interior as far as the order of the seven Amens. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the five trees of the Treasury of the Light, that is, the unshakable trees. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, that is, the great mystery, and their great seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light, which is king over the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the seven voices. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the Uncontainables. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the Infinites. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the Pre-uncontainables. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the Pre-infinites. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the Undefiled. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the Pre-undefiled. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the Unshakables. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the Super-unshakables. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the Fatherless. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the Pre-fatherless. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the five marks of the light. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the three spaces. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the five helpers of the Treasury of the Light. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the thrice-spirited of the Treasury of the Light. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the triple-powers of the great king of the Treasury of the Light. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the first commandment. When you reach it, it will give you its mystery, its seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the place of the order of the inheritance. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the place of the silence and of the rest. When you reach it, they will give you their mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will pass into their interior as far as the order of the veils which are drawn before the great king of the Treasury of the Light. They will give you their great mystery, their seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light, and they will withdraw, until you cross over and pass through them, and until you reach the great Man, that is, the king of this whole Treasury of the Light, whose name is ‘Jeu’. When you reach that place, he will see that you have the mystery of the whole Treasury of the Light and the mystery of the forgiveness of sins, its defences, its incenses which you have laid out, and that you have done all its works, and that you have carried out all the commandments of the mystery and all its works. Then Jeu, the Father of the Treasury of the Light, will rejoice over you; and he in turn will give you his mystery, his seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into the place of the great light which surrounds the whole Treasury of the Light and all its inhabitants. But when you reach that place, Jeu is again in that place. And he, the great light, will give you his mystery, his seal and the great name of the Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into its interior through the gates of the Treasury of the Light, that is, of the second Treasury of the Light. But when you reach the guardians of the gates of that second treasury, say the mystery (of the forgiveness of sins) and its defence. And when the guardians open to you the gates of the second Treasury of the Light, you will go into their interior as far as the order of the triple-powers of the light, whose names are these: [names]. These, then, are the names of the triple-powers of the light of the second Treasury of the Light. Again, when you reach the order of those triple-powers of the light, they too will give you their great mystery of the second Treasury of the Light, their seal and the great name of the second Treasury of the Light. Again you will go into their interior as far as the order of the twelfth order of the twelfth great power of the emanations of the true God, which he has emanated. When you reach that order, say the mystery of the forgiveness of sins and its defence. And those who belong to that order will also give you their great mystery, their great defence and their seal. They also belong to that order, that is, to the twelve powers of the true God. These are their true names. There are twelve heads in that order. These, then, are the names of that order: [names]. These, then, (are) their true names. These will then stand alone in their place and call on the true God with these names, saying: ‘Hear us, our Father, you Father of all fatherhood: [names and vowels], that is, Father of all fatherhood, for the All has come forth from the Alpha and will return to the Omega, when the completion of all completion takes place. We will now call on these incorruptible names, so that you may send forth this great power of light, and it may follow these twelve Uncontainables, that is, the twelve disciples, since they have received the mystery of the forgiveness of sins. For that very reason they cannot be held back from drawing near to the Treasury of the Light.’ Immediately, then, when they had called on these names, crying to the true God, he, the true God, sent forth from himself a great power, whose name is [name]. At that same moment this great power of light came forth behind the disciples, and at that same moment it will make the treasuries of the light, it will make their orders withdraw, until you pass into the interior and reach the treasury of the true God. And he, the true God, will give you his great mystery, his great seal and his great name, which is king over his treasury. Again he will praise and call on the unapproachable God, that is, this sole existence. And he, the unapproachable God, will separate a power of light from himself, so that it may come to you at the place of the true God and give you the character of the treasury of the true God and perfect you in all fullness and make you an order in that treasury. And you will praise the unapproachable God, because, while you are in the body, you have received the mystery of the forgiveness of sins; and you will be in the place of the true God, because you have received the mystery of the forgiveness of sins and its defence and its seal and its number and all its commandments which I have commanded you. Now, then, my disciples, be patient, and I will also give you the mystery of the forgiveness of sins and its defences and its seal.”

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

When Jesus had said all this to his disciples and had given them all these mysteries which he had just performed, Jesus said to his disciples: “It is necessary that you also receive the mystery of the forgiveness of sins, so that you may become ‘children of the light’, perfected in all the mysteries.” When Jesus had said all this to his disciples and had taught them the mysteries, the disciples of Jesus said to him: “Our Lord and Master, we ask you to lay down in us the mystery of the forgiveness of sins, its defences, its seal and its number, so that we may become ‘children of the light’, and the archons of the aeons which are outside the treasuries of the light may not hold us back, and so that we may be counted in the inheritance of the kingdom of the light and be perfected in all the mysteries.” Jesus said to his disciples: “Be patient, and I will tell it to you. Since I said to you before, before I gave you mysteries, that I would give you the mystery of the twelve aeons, their seals and the manner of calling on them, in order to reach their places, hear now, since you have received the mystery of the twelve aeons and the mystery of the baptism of the water of life and the mystery of the baptism of fire and the mystery of (the baptism of) the Holy Spirit and the mystery of the removal of the wickedness (of the archons) in you — since I have told you that I would give you their defences and the manner (of calling on them, in order to reach their places), and also these seals — hear, then, so that I may proclaim to you their defences, with which you will give account before them.”