Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, Wonder Extraordinary THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO PHILIP AS WRITTEN BY NATHANAEL Chp.

1: A Hebrew makes1 another Hebrew, and such a person is called a 'proselyte.' But a proselyte does not make1 another proselyte. 2) Some both exist2 just as they are and make1 others like themselves, while others simply exist.2 3) The slave seeks only to be free, but he does not hope to acquire nor seek after the possessions3 of his master. 4) But the Son is not only a son, but lays claim to the inheritance of the Father. 5) Those who are heirs to the dead are themselves dead, and they inherit the dead. 6) Those who are heirs to Him who lives are alive, and they are heirs to both what is living and the dead. 7) The dead are heirs to nothing. For how could he who is dead inherit? 8) If he who is dead inherits what is living4 he will not die, but he who is dead will come to life!5 9) A Gentile does not die, for he has never lived in order that he may die. 10) He who has believed in the Truth has found Life, and this one is in danger of dying, for he is alive ever since the day Christ came. 11) And (ever since the day Christ came) the world is created; the cities are adorned; the dead carried out. 12) When we were Hebrews we were orphans and had only our mother, but when we became Christians we obtained6 both Father and Mother. 13) Those who sow in winter reap in summer. The winter is the world; the summer is the other aeon. 14) Let us sow in the world that we may reap in the summer! Because of this it is fitting that we do not pray (for any reward)7 in the winter. 15) Summer follows winter. But if any one8 reaps in winter he will not actually reap but only pluck out, since this sort of thing will not provide him a harvest. 16) Since such a one (man or field) will produce fruit for the Name, it will not only come forth daily, but not even on the Sabbath is his power without fruit.9 Chp. 2: Christ came to ransom some, to save others, to redeem others. 2) He ransomed those who were strangers and made them His own. 3) And He set His own apart, those whom He gave as a pledge in His will.10 4) It was not only when He appeared that he voluntarily laid down his life,11 but He laid down His life12 from the very day the world came into being. 5) Then He came forth12 in order to take it again; since it had been given as a pledge. It fell into the hands of13 robbers and was taken captive, but He saved it. 6) He redeemed14 that which is good in the world, as well as the evil.

7) Light and darkness, life and death, right and left are brothers. They are inseparable. 8) Because of this neither are the good good, nor the evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve15 into its original nature. 9) But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal. 10) Names given to worldly things are very deceptive, for they divert our thoughts16 from what is correct17 to what is not correct.18 11) Thus one who hears the word18a 'God' does not perceive He who is established,18 but has thought for him who is not established.19 12) So also with 'the Father' and 'the Son' and 'the Holy Spirit' and 'life' and 'light' and 'resurrection' and 'the Church' and all the rest. People do not perceive what is correct18 but what is not correct;18 unless they have come to know what is established. 13) The names which are heard belong to this world, let no one be deceived. If they were in the Aeon, they would at no time be used as names in this world. 14) Nor would they (the names) be set among19 worldly things. They have an end in the Aeon. 15) One single name is not uttered in the world, the name which the Father gave to the Son, the name above all things: the name of the Father. 16) For the Son would not become Father if He had not put on20 the name of the Father. 17) Those who have this name know it, but they do not speak it. But those who do not have it, cannot even think of it. 18) But Truth brought names into existence in the world for our sakes, because it is not possible to teach it without names. 19) Truth is one thing; and it is also many things, for our sakes (we) who learn of this one thing, alone in love through many things. 20) The powers and archons wanted to deceive man, since they saw that he had a kinship with those that are truly good. 21) They took the name of those that are good, and gave it to those that are not good, so that through the names they might deceive him and bind him to those that are not good. 22) And afterward, as if they were doing them a favor, they will be made to remove them from those that are not good and place them among those that are good. 23) These things they knew, for they wanted to take the free man and make him a slave to them forever. 24) There are powers which will bring benefit to21 man (unintentionally); because they do not wish him to be saved, in order that they might endure.22 25) For if man is saved, there will not be any sacrifices to the gods, and animals will not be offered to the powers. 26) The very ones who created23 the animals are they who sacrifice to them. They were indeed offered up alive, but when they offered them (the animals) up they died. 27) As for man, they offered him up to God dead, and He lived. Chp 3: Before Christ came there was no bread in the world, just as paradise, the place where Adam was, had many trees to nourish animals but no wheat to sustain man. 2) Man used to feed like the beasts, but when Christ came, the perfect Man, He brought bread from heaven in order that man might be nourished with the food of Man. 3) The powers and archons thought that it was their own power and will that were doing what they did, but the Holy Spirit in secret

contrived and accomplished everything through them as It24 wished. 4) Truth, which existed since the beginning, is sown everywhere; and many see it as it is sown, but few see it as it is reaped. 5) Some said, 'Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit.' They are in error: They do not know what they are saying; when did a woman ever conceive by a woman? 6) Mary is the Virgin whom no power defiled. 7) She25 is a great curse to the Hebrews, who are the apostles and the apostolic men. 8) This virgin whom no power defiled is pure, and so26 the powers defile themselves. 9) And the Lord would not have said 'My Father who art in Heaven' unless He had another Father, but he would have simply said 'My father'. 10) The Lord said to the disciples, 'Take from every house something, and bring it into the house of the Father. 11) But do not steal27 anything in the house of the Father, nor carry it off.' 12) Jesus' is a hidden name, 'Christ' is a revealed name. 13) For this reason 'Jesus' does not exist in any other language, but His name is always 'Jesus', as he is called. 14) 'Christ' is also His name: in Syriac it is 'Messiah', in Greek it is 'Christ'. Certainly all others have it according to their own tongue. 15) 'The Nazarene' is He who reveals what is hidden.28 16) Christ has everything within Himself, whether man or angel or mystery; and the Father also. 17) Those who say that the Lord died first and then rose up are in error, for He rose up first and then He died. 18) If one does not first attain the resurrection he will not be able to Die. As God lives, that one will Die.29 19) No one will hide a large valuable object in a costly vessel, but many a time one has tossed countless thousands into a vessel worth a penny. 20) Compare the soul. It is a precious thing and it came to be in a contemptible body. 21) Some are afraid lest they rise naked. Because of this they wish to rise in flesh, and they do not know that it is those who wear the flesh that are naked. 22) It is those who are able to unclothe30 themselves who are not naked. 23) 'Flesh and blood shall not be able31 to inherit the Kingdom of God.' 24) What is this which will not inherit? This which we bear on us. 25) But what is this very thing which will inherit? It is that which belongs to Jesus and His blood. 26) Because of this He said, 'He who shall not eat My flesh and drink My blood has not life in him'. 27) Of what kind is it? His flesh is the Word,32 and His blood is the Holy Spirit! 28) I find fault with the others who say that the flesh33 will not rise. Then both of them are at fault. 29) You say the flesh will not rise; but tell me what will rise, that we may honor you. 30) You say: The spirit in the flesh, and it is also this spark of light in the flesh. But this to is a matter which is in the flesh, for whatever you shall say, you say nothing outside the flesh.34 31) It is therefore necessary to rise in this flesh, since everything exists within it.

32) In this world those who put on garments are more precious than the garments. 33) In the Kingdom of Heaven the garments are more precious than those who have put them on. Chp 4: It is through water and fire that the whole place is purified the visible by the visible, the hidden through the hidden. 2) There are some things hidden through what is visible: There is Water in water, there is fire in a chrism. 3) Jesus took them all by stealth: For He did not reveal Himself in the manner in which He was, but in the manner in which they would be able to see him that He revealed Himself. 4) He revealed Himself to them all. 5) He revealed himself to the great as great: He revealed himself to the small as small. 6) He revealed Himself to the angels as an angel, and to men as a man. Because of this His Word35 hid itself from everyone. 7) Some indeed saw him, thinking that they were seeing themselves; but when He appeared to His disciples in glory on the mount he was not small. 8) He not only became great, but He made the disciples great, that they might be able to see him in His greatness. 9) He said on that day in Thanksgiving, 'You who have joined the perfect, the light, with the Holy Spirit, unite the angels with us also, the images.' 10) Do not despise the lamb, for without it it is not possible to see the king. No one will be able to go in to the king if he is naked. 11) The heavenly Man has many more sons than the earthly man. 12) If the sons of Adam are many, although they die, how much more the sons of the perfect Man; they who do not die but are always continually begotten. 13) The father makes a son36, and the son36 has not the power37 to make a son.36 14) For he who has been begotten has not the power37 to beget, but the Son37 gets brothers for Himself, not sons. 15) All who are begotten in the world, are begotten in a natural way, and the others in a spiritual way. 16) Those who are begotten by Him cry out from that place to the perfect Man because they are nourished on the promise concerning the heavenly place above. 17) The perfect man is nourished from the mouth, because if the Word has come forth38 from that Place it39 would be nourished from the mouth and it would become perfect. 18) For it is by a kiss that the perfect conceive and give birth. For this reason we also kiss one another. 19) We receive conception from the grace that is in each other. 20) There were three who always walked40 with the Lord: Mary his mother and her sister and Magdalene, the one who was called his companion. His sister and His mother and His companion were each a Mary. 21) 'The Father' and 'the Son' are single names, 'the Holy Spirit' is a double name. 22) For they are everywhere: they are above, they are below; they are in the visible and revealed: it is below. It is in the hidden and concealed: it is above. 23) The saints are ministered to by the evil powers, for they are blinded by the Holy Spirit into thinking that they are serving an ordinary man whenever they do something for the saints. 24) Because of this a disciple asked the Lord one day for something

of this world. He said to him, 'Ask your Mother and She will give you of the things which are another's.' Chp. 5: The apostles said to the disciples, 'May our whole offering obtain salt.' 2) They called Wisdom41 'salt'. Without it no offering is acceptable. 3) But Wisdom45 is barren, and without child. For this reason She is called 'a trace42 of salt.' 4) But where they will be in their own way, the Holy Spirit is there also, and Her children are many. 5) What the Father posses belongs to the Son; 6) and the son himself, so long as he is small, is not entrusted with what is His. But when he becomes a Man his Father gives him all that He possesses. 7) Those who have gone astray, whom the Spirit begets, usually go astray because of the Spirit. 8) Thus, by this one and the same Breath, the fire blazes and is quenched. 9) Echamoth is one thing Echmoth another. Echamoth is Wisdom simply, and Echmoth is the Wisdom of death: that is the one which knows death, which is called 'the little Wisdom.' 10) There are domestic animals, like the bull and the ass and others of this kind. Others are wild and live apart in the deserts. 11) Man ploughs the field by means of the domestic animals, and from this he feeds both himself and the animals, whether tame or wild. 12) Compare the perfect man. It is through powers which are submissive and obedient that he ploughs, preparing for everything to come into being. 13) For it is because of thispreparation that the whole place stands, whether the good or the evil, the right and the left. 14) The Holy Spirit shepherds every one and rules all the powers, the 'tame' ones, and the 'wild' ones, as well as those which are unique. 15) For indeed He gathers them43 and shuts them in, in order that even if they wish, they will not be able to escape. 16) He who has been created44 {i.e. Adam} is beautiful and you would expect his sons to be noble creations. 17) If he was not created49 but begotten, you would find that his seed was noble. But now he was created49 and he begot; what kind of nobility is this? 18) First adultery came into being, afterwards the murderer {i.e. Cain}. 19) And he was begotten in adultery, for he was a child of the serpent. So he became a murderer, just like his father, and he slew his brother {i.e. Abel}. 20) Indeed every act of sexual intercourse which has occurred between those unlike one another is adultery. Chp. 6: God is a dyer. 2) As the good dyes, which are called 'true' dissolve45 with the things dyed in them, so it is with those whom God has dyed. 3) Since His dyes are immortal, they become immortal by means of His colors.46 4) Now God baptizes those whom He baptizes47 in water. 5) It is impossible for anyone to see any of the things that actually exist48 unless he becomes like them. 6) This is not the way with man in the world: he sees the sun without being a sun; and he sees the heaven and the earth and all other things,

but he is not these things. It is not so in the Place of Truth.49 7) For you saw something of that Place and you became those things. 8) You saw the Spirit, you became spirit. You saw Christ, you became Christ. You saw the Father, you shall become Father. 9) So in this place you see everything and do not see yourself, but in that Place you do see yourselfand what you see you shall become! Chp. 7: Faith receives, love gives. 2) No one will be able to receive without faith. 3) No one will be able to give without love. 4) Because of this, in order that we may indeed receive, we believe, but it is also that we may love and give; 5) since if one does not give with50 love he has no profit from what he has given. 6) The apostles who were before us had these names for Him: 'Jesus, the Nazorean, Messiah,' that is, 'Jesus, the Nazorean, the Christ.' 7) The last name is 'Christ,' the first is 'Jesus,' that in the middle is 'the Nazarene.' 8) 'Messiah' has two meanings, both 'the Christ' and 'the measured.' 9) 'Jesus' in Hebrew is 'the redemption.' 'Nazara' is 'the truth.' 10) 'The Nazarene,' accordingly means, 'the man of truth.' 'Christ' the one who has been measured. 'The Nazarene' and 'Jesus' are they who have measured Him. 11) When the pearl is cast down into the mud it does not become less valuable, nor if it is anointed with balm oil will it become more precious: But it always has worth in the eyes of its owner. 12) So it is with51 the sons of God, wherever they may be. They still have the same value in the eyes of their Father. 13) If you say, 'I am a Jew,' no one will be moved. If you say, 'I am a Roman,' no one will be disturbed. If you say, 'I am a Greek, a barbarian, a slave, a free man,' no one will be troubled. 14) If you say, 'I am a Christian,' the world will tremble. 15) Would that I may receive a name like that! This is the person whom the powers52 will not be able to endure when they hear his name. 16) God is a man eater. For this reason men are53 sacrificed for54 Him. 17) Before men were sacrificed animals were being sacrificed, since those to whom they were sacrificed were not gods. 18) Glass decanters and earthenware jugs are both made by means of fire. 19) But if glass decanters break they are done over, for they came into being through a breath. 20) If earthenware jugs break, however, they are destroyed, for they came into being without breath. 21) An ass which turned a milestone did a hundred miles walking. When it was loosed it found that it was still at the same place. 22) There are men who take many journeys, but make no progress toward a goal. 23) When evening came upon them they saw neither city nor village, neither creation nor nature, there is no power there to help55 nor angel. In vain have these wretches labored. Chp. 8: The Eucharist is Jesus. 2) For He is called in Syriac 'Pharistha' which is 'the one who is spread out,' for Jesus came crucifying the world. 3) The Lord went into the dye works of Levi. He took seventy-two

different colors56 and threw them into the vat. He took them out all white. 4) And He said, 'Even so has the Son of Man come as a dyer.' 5) As for the Wisdom who is called 'the barren,' She is the mother of the angels, and the companion of the Savior, who is also Mary Magdalene. 6) But Christ loved her more than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on the mouth. The rest of the disciples were offended by it and expressed disapproval. 7) They said to Him, 'Why do you love her more than all of us?' The Savior answered and said to them, 'Why do I not love you like her?' 8) When a blind man and one who sees are both together in darkness, they are no different from one another. 9) When the light comes, then he who sees will see the light, and he who is blind will remain in darkness. 10) The Lord said, 'Blessed is he who is before he came into being. For he who is, has been and will be.' 11) The superiority of man is not visible57 to the eye, but lies in what is secret. 12) Consequently he has mastery over the beasts which are stronger than he is and great in terms of the visible58 and the hidden. This enables them to survive. 13) But if man is separated from them, they slay one another and bite one another. They devoured one another because they did not find any food. 14) But now they have found food because Man tilled the soil. 15) If one goes down into the water and comes up without having received anything and says, 'I am a Christian,' he has borrowed the name at interest. 16) But if he receives the Holy Spirit, he has the name as a gift. 17) He who has received a gift does not have it taken away58, but of him who has borrowed it at interest, payment is demanded. 18) This is the way it happens with us, when anyone experiences and submits to a mystery. 19) Great is the mystery of marriage! For without it the world would not exist. 20) Now the existence of the world depends on man, and the existence of man on marriage. 21) Understand the undefiled intercourse,59 for it possesses a great power. Its image consists of a defilement of the form. 22) As for the unclean spirits, there are males among them and females. 23) The males are they which unite with the souls which inhabit a female form, but the females are they which are mingled with those in a male form, through one who was disobedient.60 24) And none shall be able to escape them, since they detain him unless he receives a male power and a female power, namely, the Bridegroom and the Bride.One receives them from the mirrored bridal chamber. 25)When the wanton61 women see a male sitting alone, they leap down on him and play with him and defile him. So also the lecherous66 men, when they see a beautiful women sitting alone, they prevail upon her and compel her, wishing to defile her. 26) But if they see the man and his wife sitting beside one another, the female cannot come in to the man, nor can the male go in to the woman. 27) So if the image and the angel are united with one another, neither can any venture to go in to the man or the woman.

28) He who comes out of the world can no longer be detained, because he was in the world. 29) It is evident that he is exalted above desire of the flesh and fear. He is master over nature. He is superior to envy. 30) If anyone else comes, they seize him and throttle him; and how will this one be able to escape the great clutching powers?: How will he be able to hide from them? 31) Often some come and say, 'We are faithful,' in order that they might be able to escape62 the unclean spirits and demons. 32) For if they had the Holy Spirit, no unclean thing would cleave to nor molest them. 33) Fear not the flesh nor love it. 34) If you fear it, it will dominate you: If you love it, it will swallow and paralyze you. 35) Man is either in this world or in the resurrection or in the places in the middle. God forbid that I be found in them! 36) In this world there is good and evil. Its good is not good, and its evil not evil. 37) But there is something after this world which is truly evilwhat is called 'the Middle.' It is death. 38) While we are in this world it is fitting for us to acquire the resurrection for ourselves, so that when we strip off the flesh we may be found at Rest and not roam about in the Middle. 39) Truly many go astray on the way. 40) For it is good to come forth from the world before one has sinned. 41) Some neither desire to sin,63 nor are able to sin.63 42) Others, even if they desire to sin,63 have no profit for not having done it, for this desire makes them sinners. 43) But even if some do not desire to sin, righteousness will be concealed from them boththe desire-not and the do-not. 44) An apostolic man in a vision saw some people shut up in a house of fire and bound with fiery chains, lying in flaming ointment. They possessed faith. 45) And he said to them, 'Why are they not able to be saved?' 46) They said to him, 'They did not desire it. They received this place as punishment, what is called 'the outer darkness,' because he is thrown out into it.' Chp. 9: It is from Water and Fire that the soul and the spirit came into being. 2) It is from Water and Fire and Light that the son of the bridal chamber came into being. 3) The fire is the chrism, the Light is the Fire. 4) I am not referring to that earthly fire which has no form, but to the other heavenly Fire whose form is white, which is radiant and exquisite and which bestows beauty. 5) Truth did not come into the world naked, but came in types and images. One will not receive Truth in any other way. 6) There is a rebirth and an image of rebirth: It is necessary that they should be born again through the image. 7) What is the resurrection? The image must rise again through the Image. 8) The bridegroom and the image must enter through the Image into the Truth: this is the Restoration.64 9) It is fitting that those who do not have it not only acquire the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, but that they have acquired it on their own. 10) If one does not acquire the name for himself, the name Christian

will also be taken from him. 11) but one receives them in the chrism with the balsam65 of the power of the Cross. This power the apostles called 'the right and the left.' 12) For this person is no longer a Christian but a Christ. 13) The Lord did everything in a mystery, a baptism and a chrism and a eucharist and a redemption and a bridal chamber. 14) The Lord said, 'I came to make the things below like the things above, and the things outside like those inside. 15) I came to unite them in that Place.' 16) He revealed Himself in this place through symbols, types and images. 17) Those who say, 'There is a heavenly one and there is one above Her,66' are in error. 18) For he who is revealed in the visible67 is that heavenly man, the one who is called, 'the one who is below'; 19) and He to whom the hidden realm belongs is that one who is above him. 20) For it is right and good that they should say, 'the inner and the outer, and68 what is outside the outer.' 21) Because of this the Lord called destruction 'the outer darkness': there is not another outside of it. 22) He said, 'My Father who is in secret.' 23) He said, 'Go into your chamber and shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father who is in secret.', the One who is within them all. 24) But what is within them all is the Pleroma: Beyond that there is nothing else within it. This is the One of whom it is said, 'He who69 is above them all.' 25) Before Christ some came from a place they were no longer able to enter, and they went where they were no longer able to come out. 26) Then Christ came. Those who went in He brought out, and those who went out He brought in. 27) When Eve was still in Adam death did not exist. When she was separated from him death came into being. 28) Again, if she enters into him and he takes her to himself,70 death will no longer exist. 29) 'My God, my God, why, O Lord, have you forsaken me?': It was on the cross that He said these words, for it was there that He was divided and seperated. 30) Everyone who has been begotten through him who destroys did not emanate from God. 31) The Lord rose from the dead. He did not come as he was, but became as He used to be; since now His body was wholly perfect. 32) He did indeed posses flesh, but this flesh is true flesh. 33) Our flesh is not true, but we posses only an image of the true. 34) The bridal chamber is not for the animals, nor is it for the slaves, nor for the defiled women; but it is for the free men and virgins. 35) Through the Holy Spirit we are indeed begotten again; 36) but we are begotten through Christ in the two. 37) We are anointed through the Spirit. 38) When we were begotten we were united. 39) None shall be able to see himself either in water or in a mirror without light: Nor again will you be able to see in light without water or mirror. 40) For this reason it is necessary to baptize in the two, in the light and the water: Now the Light is the chrism.

Chp. 10: There were three buildings specially for offering and sacrifice in Jerusalem. 2) The one facing west was called 'the Holy.' 3) Another facing south was called 'the Holy of the Holy.' 4) The third which opens east called 'the Holy of the Holies,' the place where only the high priest enters. 5) Baptism is 'the Holy' building. 6) Redemption is 'the Holy of the Holy.' 7) The 'Holy of Holies' is the bridal chamber. 8) Baptism has after it71 the resurrection and the redemption: the redemption takes place in the bridal chamber. 9) But the bridal chamber is in that which is superior to it and the others,72 and you will not find anything like it. 10) Those who are familiar with it, are those who worship in spirit and truth. They pray in 'the Holy'73 in Jeruselem. 11) There are some in Jerusalem who do indeed worship in Jerusalem, awaiting the mysteries of the Kingdom of Hevean. 12) These are called 'the Holy of Holies' because before the veil was rent, we had no other bridal chamber except the image of the Bridal Chamber which is above. 13) Because of this its veil was rent from top to bottom. For it was necessary and fitting for some from below to go upward. 14) The powers do not see those who are clothed in the perfect Light, and consequently are not able to detain them. 15) One will clothe himself in this Light sacramentally in the union. 16) If the woman would not seperate from the man, she would not die with him. His seperation became the beginning of death. 17) Because of this Christ came to came to repair the seperation which was from the beginning and again unite the two, and to give Life to those who died as a result of the seperation and unite them. 18) But the woman is united to her husband in the bridal chamber. 19) Inded, those who have united in the bridal chamber will no longer be seperated. 20) Thus Eve seperated from Adam because she was never united with him in the Bridal Chamber. 21) The soul of Adam came into being by means of a Breath, which is the consort of74 the Spirit. The spirit which was given him is his Mother. 22) His soul was replaced by a spirit; when he was united to the Spirit, he spoke words incomprehensible to the powers. 23) They envied him because they were seperated from the spiritual union. The Word75 was hidden in the spirit.76 24) This seperation afforded them the opportunity to fashion for themselves the symbolic bridal chamber so that men would be defiled. 25) Jesus revealed Himself at the Jordan: It was as the fullness of the Kingdom of Heaven. 26) He who was begotten was begotten anew. He who was once anointed was anointed anew. He who was redemed in turn redeemed others. Chp. 11: Is it permitted77 to utter a mystery? 2) The Father of the All united with the Virgin who had fallen, and a star78 shone for Him on that day. 3) He appeared in the bridal chamber; therefore, His body came into being on that very day. 4) He left the bridal chamber as one who had come into being from the bridegroom and bride, so Jesus established everything in it through these. 5) It is fitting for each of the disciples to enter into His rest.

6) Adam came into being from two virgins, from the Spirit and from the virgin earth. 7) Christ, therefore, was born of a virgin to rectify the fall which occurred in79 the beginning. 8) There are two trees growing in Paradise; one bears animals the other bears men. 9) Adam ate from the tree which bears animals. He became an animal and he begot80 animals. 10) Because of this the children of Adam worship the gods in the form of animals. 11) The tree who's fruit Adam ate is the tree of knowledge, that is why sins increased. 12) If he ate the fruit of the other tree, that is to say, the fruit of the tree of Life, the one which bears men, the gods would worship man. 13) For in the beginning God created man, but now men81 create God. 14) That is the way it is in he worldmen make gods and worship their creation. It would indeed be fitting for the gods to worship men! 15) Surely, the works of man come into being from His power. Because of this his works are called 'the powers'.82 16) Among his accomplishments are his children, they originate in a moment of ease. 17) Thus his powers determine what he may accomplish, but his ease is clearly visible in the children. You will find that this applies directly to the image. 18) Here is the man made after the Image, accomplishing things with His power, but begetting children out of rest and ease. 19) In this world the slaves serve the free. In the Kingdom of Heaven the free will minister to the slaves. 20) The children of the bridal chamber will minister to the children of the marriage. 21) The children of the bridal chamber have just one name, together they share Rest. 22) They need take no other form because they have contemplation, comprehending by insight. 23) They are numerous because they do not put their treasure in the things below, which are despised, but in the glories which are above, though they did not yet know them. 24)Those who will be baptized go down into the water. 25) But Christ by coming out of the water, will consecrate it, so that they who have received baptism in His name may be perfect. 26) For He said, 'Thus we should fulfill all righteousness'. 27) Those who say they will die first and only then rise are in error. 28) If they do not first receive the resurrection while they live, when they die they will receive nothing. 29) So also when speaking about baptism they say, 'Baptism is a great thing.' because if people receive it they will live. 30) Philip the Apostle said, 'Joseph the carpenter planted a garden because he needed wood for his trade. 31) It was he who made the cross from the trees that he planted. His own offspring hung on that which he planted. 32) His offspring was Jesus, the planting was the Cross.' 33) But the Tree of Life is stands the midst of the Paradise. 34) Indeed, it is from the olive tree that we get the chrism, and from the chrism, the resurrection. 35) The world is a corpse-eater. All things eaten in it, themselves die also, for they are already mortal. 36) Truth is a life-eater; therefore, no one nourished by the Truth

will die. 37) It was from that Place that Jesus came forth and bought food. 38) To those who so desired, He gave life, that they might not die. 39) God planted a garden, man was put into the paradise. 40) There were many trees there for him, and man lived in that Place with the blessing and in the image of God. 41) Man said, 'The things which are in it I will eat as I wish. 42) This garden is the place where they will say to me, 'Oh man, eat this or do not eat that, just as you wish.' 43) This is the place where I will eat all things, since the tree of knowledge is there.' 44) That one killed Adam, but here the tree of knowledge made men alive. 45) The Law was the tree. it only has power to give the knowledge of good and evil. 46) It neither removed him from evil, nor set him in good, but it created death for those who ate of it. 47) For when he said, 'Eat this, do not eat that,' it became the beginning of death. Chp. 12: The chrism is superior to the baptism, for it is from the word 'chrism' that we have been called 'Christians', certainly not because of the word 'baptism'. 2) And it is because of the anointing of the chrism that 'the Christ' has His name. 3) For the Father anointed the Son, and the Son anointed the apostles, and the apostles anointed us. 4) He who has been anointed possesses all things; he possesses the Resurrection, the Light, the Cross, the Holy Spirit. 5) The Father gave him this in the Bridal Chamber, he merely accepted the gift. 6) The Father was in the Son and the Son was in the Father. This is the Kingdom of Heaven. 7) The Lord said it well, 'Some went into the Kingdom of Heaven and have come out laughing.' 8) And another one said, 'They do not remain thereone because he is not a Christian, the other because he regrets his action afterward'. 9) And Christ said again, 'Immediately after a man goes down into the water, he comes out lord over all things. 10) Therefore the redemption is not a trifle; but since he despised these rags he went laughing into the Kingdom of Heaven. 11) He who wants to enter the Kingdom of Heaven will attain it, if he despises everything of this world and scorns it as a trifle, he will come out laughing'. 12) So it is also with the bread and the cup and the oil, even though there is another mystery superior to these. 13) The world came about83 through a mistake. For he who created it wanted to create it imperishable and immortal. 14) For the world was never incorruptible, nor, for that matter, was he who made the world. 15) For things are not imperishable, but Sons are. 16) Nothing will be able to receive imperishablity if it does not first become a Son. 17) But he who does not have the ability to receive, how much more unable will he be to give? 18) The cup of prayer contains wine and water, since it is appointed as the type of the blood for which thanks is given. 19) and it (the blood) is full of the Holy Spirit, and it (the cup) belongs to the wholly perfect man.

20) When we drink this we shall receive for ourselves the perfect Man. 21) The living Water is a body. 22) It is necessary that we put on the living Man. 23) Therefore, when he is about to go down into the water, he unclothes84 himself, in order that he may put on the living Man. Chp. 13: A horse sires, a man begets a man, a god brings forth a god. 2) Compare the bridegroom and the bride; their children were conceived in the bridal chamber. 3) No Jew was ever born to Greek parents as long as the world has existed. And as a Christian people, we ourselves do not descend for the Jews. 4) There was another spiritual race that came into being; 5) and these blessed ones are referred to as the 'chosen people of the living God' and 'the true man' and 'the Son of man' and 'the seed of the Son of man'; this race is well known in the world. 6) Where they are, there are the children of the bridal chamber. 7) Whereas in this world the union is one of husband and wifea case of strength made perfect by weaknessin the Aeon the form of the union is different, although we refer to them by the same names. 8) There are other names however: that are exalted above85 every name that is named and are higher than the strong. 9) For where there is a show of strength, there those who excel in strength appear. 10) These are not separate things, but both of them are this one single thing. This is the one which will not be able to enter into86 the heart of flesh. 11) Is it not necessary for those who posses everything to know themselves? 12) Some indeed, if they do not know themselves, will not be able to enjoy what they posses. 13) But those who have come to know themselves will enjoy their possessions. 14) Not only will the powers be unable to detain the perfect Man, but they will not be able to see him, for if they see him they will detain him. 15) There is no other way for a person to receive this grace for themselves except by putting on the perfect Light and becoming perfect oneself. 16) Every one who has put on this Light will enter the Kingdom. 17) This is the perfect Light, and it is necessary that we by all means become perfect Men before we leave the world. 18) He who has received everything and has not rid himself of these places will not be able to share in that Place, but will go to the Middle as imperfect. Only Jesus knows the end of this person. 19) The priest and believer are holy, right down to their very body. For if he has taken the bread, will he not consecrate it? Or the cup or anything else that he gets, does he not purify it? Then how will he not purify and consecrate the body also? 20) By perfecting the water of baptism with Spirit, Jesus emptied out87 death. 21) Thus we do indeed go down into the water but we do not go down into death that we might not be emptied88 by the spirit of the world. 22) when that spirit blows, it brings the winter. When the Holy Spirit breathes, the summer comes. 23) He who has knowledge of the Truth is a free man; 24) but the free man does not sin, for 'he who sins is a slave of sin'

(John 8:34). 25) Truth is the Mother, Knowledge89 is the Father. 26) Those who think that sinning does not apply to them are called 'free' by the world. 27) Knowledge of the Truth merely makes such people arrogant, which is what the words 'it makes them free' mean. 28) But, 'Love builds up' (1 Cor.8:1). 29) In fact, he who is really free through Knowledge90 is a slave because of love for those who have not yet been able to attain to the freedom of Knowledge.90 30) Knowledge makes them capable of becoming free. 31) Love never calls something its own, and yet it may posses that very thing. 32) It (Love) never says 'This is mine' or 'That is mine', but 'All these are yours.' 33) Spiritual Love is wine and fragrance; and all those who anoint themselves with it take pleasure in it. 34) So long as those who are anointed are present, all those who stand nearby also profit from the fragrance. 35) If those anointed with ointment withdraw from them and leave, then those not anointed, who merely stand nearby, still remain in their bad odor. 36) The Samaritan gave nothing but wine and oil to the wounded man, for it is nothing other than the ointment. 37) It healed the wounds for 'love covers a multitude of sins' (1 Peter 4:8). Chp. 14: The children a woman bears resemble the man who loves her. If her husband loves her, then they resemble her husband; if it is an adulterer, then they resemble the adulterer. 2) Often, if a woman sleeps with her husband out of necessity, while her heart is with the adulterer with whom she usually has intercourse, the child she will bear is born resembling the adulterer. 3) Now you who live together with the Son of God , Love not the world, but love the Lord; 4) in order that those you will bring forth may not resemble the world, but may resemble the Lord. 5) Human beings have intercourse with human beings. The horse has intercourse with the horse, the ass with the ass. Members of a like race usually associate with those of a like race. 6) So Spirit mingles with spirit, and Thought90 consorts with thought, and Light shares with light. 7) If you are born a human being, it is the human being who will love you. 8) If you become spirit it is the Spirit which will unite with you. 9) If you become thought it is the Word which will mingle with you. 10) If you become light, it is the Light which will be joined and share you. 11) If you become one of those who belong above, it is those above who will rest in you. 12) If you become horse or ass or bull or sheep or any other animal which is outside or below, then neither human being nor spirit nor word nor thought, nor light, will be able to love you. 13) Neither those who belong above nor those who belong within will be able to rest in you, and you have no part in them. 14) He who is slave against his will, can become free. 15) He who has become free by the favor of his master and has sold himself into slavery will no longer be able to be free. 16) Farming in the world requires the cooperation of four essential

elements; a harvest is gathered into the barn only as a result of the natural action of water, earth, wind, and light. 17) God's farming likewise has four elementsfaith, hope, love, and knowledge. 18) Faith is our earth, that in which we take root. 19) Hope is the water through which we are nourished. 20) Love is the wind trough which we grow. 21) Knowledge then is the light through which we ripen. 22) Grace exists in four ways: it is earthborne; it is heavenly; it comes from the highest Heaven; and it resides in the Truth. 23) Blessed is the one who on no occasion caused a soul distress: That person is Jesus Christ! 24) He came to the whole place and did not burden any one. 25) Therefore blessed is the one who is like this, because he is a perfect Man. 26) This indeed is the Word. 27) So far as this is concerned, the Word tells us about it for it is difficult to define. 28) How shall we be able to accomplish such a great thing? How will He give everyone comfort and rest? 29) Above all, it is not proper to cause anyone distresswhether that person is great or small, unbeliever or believerand then give comfort only to those who take satisfaction in good deeds. 30) Some find it advantageous to give only rest to the one who has fared well. He who does good deeds cannot only give comfort to such people, for it goes against His will. 31) He is unable to cause distress, however, since he does not afflict them. 32) to be sure, the one who fares well sometimes causes people distressnot that he intends to do so; 33) rather it is their own wickedness which is responsible for their distress. 34) He who possesses the qualities of the perfect Man rejoices in the good; some however, are terribly distressed by all this. Chp. 15: There was a householder who had every conceivable thing, be it son or slave or cattle or dog or pig or corn or barley or chaff or grass or castor oil or meat or acorn. 2) Now he was a sensible fellow and he knew what the food of each one was. 3) He himself served the children bread and meat. He served the slaves castor oil and meal. 4) And he threw barley and chaff and grass to the cattle. He threw bones to the dogs, and to the pigs he threw acorns and scraps of bread. 5) Compare the disciple of God: if he is a sensible fellow he understands what discipleship is all about. The bodily forms will not deceive him, but he will look at the condition of each one and speak with him. 6) When he identifies them, to the swine he will throw acorns, to the cattle he will throw barley and chaff and grass, to the dogs he will throw bones, 7) To the slaves he will give only the elementary lessons, to the children he will give the complete instruction. 8) There is the Son of man, and there is the son of the Son of man. 9) The Lord is the Son of Man, and the son of the Son of man is he who is created through the Son of Man. 10) The Son of Man received from God the ability to create; He also has the ability to beget.

11) He who has the ability to create is a creature. He who has the ability to beget is an offspring. 12) He who creates cannot beget; he who begets also has power to create. 13) Now they say, 'He who creates begets.' But his so-called 'offspring' is merely a creature. Therefore his children are not offspring but creatures. 14) He who creates works openly, and he himself is visible. 15) He who begets begets in secret, and he Himself is hidden, since He is superior to every image. 16) He who creates, creates openly. But one who begets, begets children in private. 17) No one will be able to know when the husband and wife have intercourse with one another except the two of them. 18) Indeed marriage in the world is a mystery for those who have taken a wife. 19) If there is a secret quality to the marriage of defilement, how much more is the undefiled marriage a true mystery! It is not fleshly but pure. 20) It belongs not to the desire but to the will; it belongs not to the darkness or the night but to the day and the light. 21) If a marriage is open to the public, it has become prostitution, and the bride plays the harlot not only when she is impregnated by another man but even if she slips out of her bedroom and is seen. 22) Let her show herself only to her father and mother and to the friend of the bridegroom and the sons of the bridegroom. 23) But let the others yearn just to listen to her voice and enjoy her ointment and let them feed from the crumbs that fall from the table, like the dogs. 24) Bridegrooms and brides belong to the bridal chamber. 25) No one shall be able to see the bridegroom with the bride unless one becomes one himself. 26) When Abraham rejoiced that he was to see what he was to see, he circumcised the flesh of the foreskin, teaching us that it is proper to destroy the flesh. Chp. 16: Most things in the world, as long as their inner parts are hidden, stand upright and live, if they are revealed they die. 2) This is illustrated by the visible man: as long as his intestines are hidden, the man is alive; when his intestines are exposed and come out of him, the man will die. 3) So also with the tree: while its root is hidden it sprouts and grows. If its root is exposed, the tree dries up. 4) So it is with every birth that is in the world, not only with the revealed but with the hidden. 5) For so long as the root of wickedness is hidden, it is strong, but when it is recognized it is dissolved. 6) That is why the Word says, 'Already the ax is laid at the root of the trees.' (Mt. 3:10) 7) It will not merely cut, for what is cut sprouts again, but the ax penetrates deeply until it brings up the root. 8) Jesus pulled out the root of the whole place, while others did it only partially. 9) As for ourselves, let each one of us dig down after the root of evil which is within one, and pluck it out of one's heart from the root. 10) It will be plucked out if we recognize it. But if we are ignorant of it, it takes root in us and produces its fruit in our heart. 11) It masters us; we are its slaves. It takes us captive, to make us do

what we do not want; and what we do want, we do not do. 12) Evil is powerful because we do not recognize it. While it exists it is active. 13) Ignorance is the mother of all evil. 14) Ignorance will eventuate in death, because those that come from ignorance neither were nor are, nor shall be. 15) But those who are in the Truth will be perfect when all truth is revealed. 16) For truth is like ignorance: while it is hidden it rests in itself, but when it is revealed and is recognized, it is praised inasmuch as it is stronger than ignorance and error. It gives freedom. 17) The Word says. 'If you know the truth, the Truth will make you free.' 18) Ignorance is a slave; Knowledge is freedom. 19) If we know the Truth, we shall find the fruits of the Truth within us. If we are joined to it, It will receive us and bring our fulfillment. 20) At the present time we hold onto the manifest things of creation and say that they are strong and honored, but the hidden things are weak and despised. 21) Contrast the manifest things of Truth: they are weak and despised, while the hidden things are strong and held in high regard. 22)The mysteries of Truth are visible only as types and images. 23) The bridal chamber remains hidden, however, it is the Holy in the Holy. 24) The veil at first concealed how God controlled the creation, but when the veil is rent and the things inside are revealed, this house will be left desolate, or rather it will be destroyed. 25) But the whole inferior Godhead will not flee from these places into the Holies of the Holies,91 for it will not be able to mix with the unmixed Light and the flawless Fullness, but rather will remain under the wings of the Cross and under its arms. 26) This Ark will be its salvation when the flood of water surges over them. 27) If some belong to the order of the priesthood they will be able to enter within the veil with the high priest. 28) For this reason the veil was not rent at the top only, since it would have been open only to those above; 29) Nor was it rent at the bottom only, since it would have been revealed only to those below. 30) But it was rent from top to bottom. 31) Those above opened to us who are below, in order that we may enter into the secret of the Truth. 32) This truly is what is honored since it is strong, but we shall go in there by means of lowly types and forms of weakness. 33) They are lowly indeed when compared with the perfect Glory. 34) There is a Glory which surpasses glory. 35) There is a Power which surpasses power. 36) Therefore the perfect Things have opened to us, together with the things of Truth. 37) The Holies of the Holies were revealed, and the Bridal Chamber invited us in. 38) So long as it is hidden, wickedness is indeed of no account, but it has not been removed from the midst of the seed of the Holy Spirit. 39) They are still slaves of evil, but when it is revealed, then the perfect Light will pour out upon every one. 40) And all those who are in it will receive the chrism, and the slaves will be free and the captives delivered.92 41) 'Every tree which my Father who is in Heaven has not planted will be plucked out.' (Mt. 15:13)

42) Those who are separated will be united, and what is empty will be filled. 43) Everyone who will enter the Bridal Chamber will kindle the Light. 44) For it burns just as in the marriages which are observed, though they happen at night. 45) That fire burns and shines only at night and goes out. 46) But the mysteries of marriage are perfected rather in the day and the light. 47) Neither that Day nor its Light ever sets. 48) If anyone becomes a Son of the Bridal Chamber, he will receive the Light. 49) If anyone does not receive it while he is in this world, he will not be able to receive it in the other Place. 50) He who will receive that Light will not be seen, nor can he be detained; and none shall be able to torment a person like this even when he dwells in the world. 51) And when he leaves the world he has already received the Truth in the images. 52) The world has become the Aeon, for the Aeon has become the Pleroma. 53) This the way it is: it is revealed to Him alone, not hidden in the darkness and the night, but hidden in a perfect Day and a Holy Light. The Gospel According to Philip as written by Nathanael 1produce(s) 2come into being 3estate 4He who lives 5will live even more! 6had 7anything 8man 9It is not only now that his fruit will not come forth, but also on the Sabbath his field is barren. 10And he took back his own, which he had laid down as a pledge of his own free w ill. 11 the soul 12for the first time 13was under 14saved 15be resolved 16men's hearts 17established 18a name 18what is correct 19assigned to 20iunless he wears 21contend against 22their existence might be enduring. 23offered 24he 25 This 26wishes that 27take 28is the revealed name of the hidden. 29be already dead.

30lay it aside 31can not 32Logos 33it 34you name, you yet name nothing that exists outside the flesh. 35Logos 36child 37ability 38gone out 39he 40kept company 41Sophia 42pillar 43remains firmly resolved 44molded 45'die' 46medicines 47dips what He dips 48are established 49this is quite in keeping with the truth 50in 51compare 52world 53man is 54to 55power 56clothes of different colors 57obvious 58to give it back 59relationship 60in an illicit way 61foolish 62not see 63to do something 64Apocatastasis 65aromatic unction 66him 67heaven 68with 69that which 70If he again becomes complete and attains his former self 71includes 72them to which we belong 73do not worship 74a synonym of 75spirit or light 76image or form 77it is necessary 78fire 79at 80brought forth 81that men might 82as the truth is, what a man accomplishes depends on his ablities. We even refe r to ones accpmolishments as 'abilities'. 83into being 84strips 85superior to 86rise above 87it of

88poured out 89gnosis 90logos 91Then also all piety will flee from here, not however into the most holy place 92ransomed