C. For he hecomes (H. he says) Qod when, rising from the

Dead, through such a Qate, he shall pass into Heaven.
This is the Gate (H. he says) which Paul, the Apostle, knew, setting it ajar in a mystery, and saying that he was caught up by an angel and came to the second, nay the third heaven, into Paradise itself, and saw what he saw, and heard ineffable words, which it is not lawful for man to utter.^
These (H. he says) are the Mysteries, ineffable [yet] spoken of by all, —
** — which [also we speak, yet] not in words taught of human wiadom, but in [words] taught of Spirit, comparing things spiritual with spiritual things. But the psychic man receiveth not the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness unto him." ^
And these (H. he says) are the Ineffable Mysteries of the Spirit which we alone know.
Concerning these (H. he says) the Saviour said :
''No one is able to come to Me, unless my Heavenly Father draw him.*' *
For it is exceedingly difficult (H. he says) to receive and accept this Great Ineffiable Mystery.
And again (H. he says) the Saviour said :
" Not every one that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord 1 shall enter into the Kingdom of the Heavens, but he who doeth the Will of My Father who is in the Heavens "* —
—which [WiU] they must do, and not hear only, to enter into the Kingdom of the Heavens.
1 Some words have apparently been omitted, corresponding to the final clause of the last sentence in S. See R., p. 101.
« Cf. 2 Cor. xii. 2-4.
» Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 13, 14.
* Cf. John vi. 44. Instead of " Heavenly Father," T. R. reads ** the Father who sent me." Compare vrith this the longest of the newest found logai, concerning "them who draw us" towards self-knowledge or the " kingship within." (Grenfell and Hunt, op. cU., p. 15.) ^ Cf. Matt. vii. 21.
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And again He said (H. he says) :
of the Heavens." ^
For by ^tax-gatherers" (rtXMroi) are meant (H. he says) those who receive the consummations' (r^xi)) of the univenal [principles]; and we (H. he says) are the "tax-gatherers"' [" upon whom the consummations of the aeons have come ***}.
For the "^consummations " (H. he says) are the Seeds dis- seminated into the cosmos from the Inexpressible [Man], by means of which the whole cosmos is consimmiated ; for by means of these also it b^an to be.
And this (H. he says) is what is said :
" The Sower went forth to sow. And some [Seeds] fell by the way-side, and were trodden under foot ; and others on stony places, and they sprang up (H. he says), but because they had no depth, they withered and died.
" Others (H. he says) fell on the fair and good ground, and brought forth fruit— one a hundred, another sixty, and another thirty.
" He who hath (H. he says) ears to hear, let him hear 1 " ^
That is (H. he says), no one has been a hearer of these Mysteries, save only the gnostic, perfect [man].
This (H. he says) is the " fair and good ground " of which Moses saith:
" I wiU bring you into a fair and good land, into a land flowing with milk and honey."'
This (H. he says) is the "honey and milk" by tasting which the perfect [men] become free from all rule,^ and share in the Fullness.
This (H. he says) is the Fullness whereby all things that are generated both are and are full-filled from the Ingenerable [Man].
» Of, Matt. xxi. 31. T. R. reads " The Kingdom of God."
' Or perfectionings, or completions, or endings, or initiations ; also taxes — here a mystical synonym for pleromata (fullnesses) or logoi (words).
3 Or, collectors of dues.
« 1 Cor. X. 11.
^ Cf. the logoi underlying Matt xiii. 3 tL^Matk iv. 3 ffl^Luke viii 6 ff.
' Slightly paraphrased from LXX.— Deut xxxi. 20.
7 In that they are rulers of themselves, members of the " self- taught" Race — A^mriAf^ovf, that is, free from the Rulers of Destiny, or K&rmic bonds.
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(23) S. This same [Man] is called by the Phrygians UnfmitfuL