Chapter 1
1I loved you and wished to give you life. Jesus, he is the knowledge of truth. This is the book of the insights of the invisible God through the hidden mysteries which show the way to the chosen race, in the rest to the life of the Father, — in the coming of the Redeemer, the Savior of souls, who will receive with him the word of life higher than all life — in the knowledge of Jesus; of the Living One who has come out of the Light-aeon in the fullness of Pleroma by the Father — in the teaching, except where there is no other one whom Jesus the living taught his apostles, saying: "This is the doctrine in which Jesus the Living One, the All Knowing, raised up and spoke to his apostles: