The Thunder : Perfect Mind

VI 13, 1-21, 32

I was sent forth from ^| [the] power,
  and I have come to those who ^| reflect upon me,
  and I have been found ⁵ among those who seek after me. ^|
Look upon me, you (pl.) who reflect upon me, ^|
 and you hearers, hear me. ^|
  You who are waiting for me, take me ^| to yourselves.
And do not banish me ¹⁰ from your sight. ^|
And do not make your voice hate ^| me, nor your hearing. ^|
  Do not be ignorant of me anywhere ^| or any time. Be on your
    guard! ¹⁵
  Do not be ignorant of me. ^|

For I am the first and the last.
I ^| am the honored one and the scorned one. ^|
I am the whore and the holy one. ^|
I am the wife and the ²⁰ virgin.
I am <the mother> ^| and the daughter.
I am the members ^| of my mother.
I am the barren one ^|
  and many are her sons.
I ^| am she whose wedding is great,
  and ²⁵ I have not taken a husband.
I am the midwife ^| and she who does not bear.
I ^| am the solace of my labor pains.
I ^| am the bride and the bridegroom, ^|
  and it is my husband who ³⁰ begot me.
I am the mother of ^| my father
  and the sister of my ^| husband,
  and he is my offspring. ^|
I am the slave of him who ^| prepared me.
I am the ruler 14 of my offspring.
  But he is the one who [begot me] ^| before the time
    on a birthday. ^|
And he is my offspring [in] ^| (due) time,
  and my power ⁵ is from him.
I am the staff ^| of his power in his youth,
  [and] ^| he is the rod of my ^| old age.
  And whatever he wills ^| happens to me.
I am the silence ¹⁰ that is incomprehensible
  and the idea ^| whose remembrance is frequent. ^|
I am the voice whose sound is ^| manifold
  and the word whose appearance ^| is multiple.
I am the utterance of ¹⁵ my name.

Why, you who hate me, ^| do you love me
  and ^| hate those who love me? ^|
You who deny me, confess ^| me,
  and you who confess ²⁰ me, deny me.
You who tell ^| the truth about me, lie about me,
  and you ^| who have lied about me, tell the truth about me. ^|
You who know me, be ignorant ^| of me,
  and those who have not ²⁵ known me, let them know me. ^|

For I am knowledge and ^| ignorance.
I am ^| shame and boldness. ^|
I am shameless; I am ³⁰ ashamed.
I am strength and ^| I am fear.
I am ^| war and peace.
Give heed ^| to me.
I am the one who is disgraced ^| and the great one.

Give heed to my 15 poverty and my wealth. ^|
Do not be arrogant to me when I am ^| cast out upon the earth,
  [and] ^| you will find me in [those ⁵ that] are to come.
And do not look ^| [upon] me on the dung-heap
  nor go ^| and leave me cast out, ^|
  and you will find me in ^| the kingdoms.
And do not look ¹⁰ upon me when I am cast out among those who ^|
  are disgraced and in the least ^| places,
  nor laugh at me. ^|
And do not cast me out among those who ^| are slain in violence. ¹⁵
But I, I am compassionate ^| and I am cruel.

Be on your guard! ^|
Do not hate my obedience ^|
  and do not love my self-control.
In my weakness, do not ²⁰ forsake me,
  and do ^| not be afraid of my power. ^|
For why do you despise ^| my fear
and ^| curse my pride? ²⁵
But I am she who exists in ^| all fears
  and strength ^| in trembling.
I am she who is ^| weak,
  and I am well in a ^| pleasant place.
  I am ³⁰ senseless and I am wise. ^|

Why have you hated me ^| in your counsels?
For I shall be ^| silent among those who are silent, ^|
  and I shall appear and speak, 16
Why then have you hated me, you Greeks? ^|
  Because I am a barbarian among [the] ^| barbarians?
For I am the Wisdom ^| [of the] Greeks
  and the knowledge of [the] ⁵ barbarians.
I am the judgement of [the] ^| Greeks and of the barbarians.
[I] ^| am the one whose image is great in Egypt ^|
  and the one who has no image among the ^| barbarians.
I am the one who has been hated ¹⁰ everywhere
  and who has been loved ^| everywhere.
I am the one whom they call ^| Life,
  and you have ^| called Death.
I am the one whom ^| they call Law, ¹⁵
  and you have called Lawlessness. ^|
I am the one whom you have pursued, ^|
  and I am the one whom you have seized. ^|
I am the one whom you have scattered, ^|
  and you have gathered me together. ²⁰
I am the one before whom you have ^| been ashamed,
  and you have been ^| shameless to me.
I am she who does not keep festival, ^|
  and I am she whose festivals are many. ^|
I, I am godless,
  and ²⁵ I am the one whose God is great. ^|
I am the one whom you have reflected upon,
  and you have scorned me.
I am ^| unlearned,
  and they learn from ^| me.
I am the one that you have ³⁰ despised,
  and you ^| reflect upon me.
I am the one ^| whom you have hidden from,
  and you ^| appear to me.
  But whenever ^| you hide yourselves, ³⁵
    I myself will appear. 17
  For whenever you ^| [appear],
  I myself ^| [will hide] from you.
Those who have [...] ^| to it [...] ⁵ senselessly [...]. ^|

Take me [... ^| understanding] from grief, ^|
  and take me ^| to yourselves from understanding ¹⁰ [and] grief.
And take ^| me to yourselves from places ^| that are ugly and in ruin, ^|
  and rob from those ^| which are good even though in ugliness. ¹⁵
Out of shame, take me ^| to yourselves shamelessly; ^|
  and out of shamelessness ^| and shame, upbraid my members ^|
    in yourselves.
And ²⁰ come forward to me, ^| you who know me
    and you who ^| know my members,
  and ^| establish the great ones among the small ^| first creatures.
Come ²⁵ forward to childhood, ^|
  and do not despise it ^| because it is small and it is little. ^|
And do not turn away ^| greatnesses in some parts from ³⁰ the
    smallnesses,
  for ^| the smallnesses are known ^| from the greatnesses.

Why ^| do you curse me ^| and honor me? ³⁵
You have wounded and you have ^| had mercy.
Do not separate me from the first 18 ones whom you have [known].
[And] ^| do not cast anyone [out nor] ^| turn anyone away
  [...] ^| turn you away and [... ⁵ know] him not.
  [...]. ^|
  What is mine [...]. ^|
I know the [first ones] and ^| those after them [know] me. ^|

But I am the mind of [...] ¹⁰ and the rest of [...]. ^|
I am the knowledge of my inquiry,
  and ^| the finding of those who seek after me,
  and ^| the command of those who ask of me, ^|
  and the power of the powers in my knowledge ^|
    of the angels, who have been ^| sent at my word,
    and of gods ^| in their seasons by my counsel, ^|
    and of spirits of every man who ^| exists with me,
      and of women ²⁰ who dwell within me.
I am the one who ^| is honored, and who is praised, ^|
  and who is despised ^| scornfully.
I ^| am peace,
  and war ²⁵ has come because of me.
And I ^| am an alien and a citizen. ^|
I am the substance and the one who ^| has no substance.

Those who are ^| without association with me are ignorant ³⁰ of me,
  and those who are in my ^| substance are the ones who know me. ^|
Those who are close to me have been ignorant ^| of me,
  and those who are far ^| away from me are the ones who have
    known ³⁵ me.
On the day when I am close to 19 [you],
    [you] are far away ^| [from me],
  [and] on the day when I ^| [am far away] from you,
    [I am ^| close] to you.

[I am ⁵ ...] within.
[I am ^| ...] of the natures.
I am ^| [...] of the creation of the [spirits]. ^|
[...] request of the souls. ^|
[I am] control and the uncontrollable. ¹⁰
I am the union and ^| the dissolution.
I am the abiding ^| and I am the dissolution.
I ^| am the one below,
  and they come ^| up to me.
I am the judgment ¹⁵ and the acquittal.
I, I ^| am sinless,
  and the root ^| of sin derives from me. ^|
I am lust in (outward) appearance, ^|
  and interior self-control ²⁰ exists within me.
I ^| am the hearing which is attainable to ^| everyone
  and the speech which cannot be ^| grasped.
I am a mute ^| who does not speak,
  and great ²⁵ is my multitude of words.

Hear ^| me in gentleness, and ^| learn of me in roughness. ^|
I am she who cries out, ^|
  and I am cast ³⁰ forth upon the face of the earth. ^|
I prepare the bread and ^| my mind within.
I am the ^| knowledge of my name.
I am the one ^| who cries out,
  and I listen. 20
I appear and [...] ^| walk in [...] ^| seal of my [...]. ⁵
I am [...] ^| the defense [...]. ^|
I am the one who is called ^| Truth,
  and iniquity [...]. ^|

You honor me [...] ¹⁰ and you whisper against [me].
You [who] ^| are vanquished,
judge them (who vanquish you) ^| before they give judgment
    against you, ^|
  because the judge and partiality ^| exist in you.
If you are condemned ¹⁵ by this one, who will ^| acquit you?
  Or if you are acquitted ^| by him, who will be able to ^| detain
    you?
For what is ^| inside of you is what is outside of you, ²⁰
  and the one who fashions you on the outside ^|
    is the one who shaped ^| the inside of you.
  And what ^| you see outside of you, ^|
    you see inside of you; ²⁵
    it is visible and it is your garment. ^|

Hear me, you hearers, ^|
  and learn of my words, ^| you who know me.
I am ^| the hearing that is attainable to everything; ³⁰
  I am the speech that cannot ^| be grasped.
I am ^| the name of the sound
  and the sound ^| of the name.
I am the sign ^| of the letter
  and the designation ³⁵ of the division.
And I [...].
[...] 21⁴ light [...].
[...] ⁶ hearers [...] ^| to you
[...] ^| the great power.
And [...] ^| will not move the name. ¹⁰ [...] to the one who created me. ^|
  And I will speak his name. ^|
Look then at his words
  and all ^| the writings which have been completed.
Give ^| heed then, you hearers
  and ¹⁵ you also, the angels ^| and those who have been sent, ^|
  and you spirits who have arisen from ^| the dead.
For I am the one who ^| alone exists,
  and I have no one ²⁰ who will judge me.

For many ^| are the pleasant forms which ^| exist in
  numerous sins, ^|
  and incontinencies, ^|
  and disgraceful passions, ²⁵
  and fleeting pleasures, ^|
    which (men) embrace ^| until they become sober
  and ^| go up to their resting-place. ^|
And they will find ³⁰ me there,
  and they will ^| live,
  and they will not die ^| again.

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