1And you will praise the inapproachable God, because since you have received in your body the mystery of forgiveness of sins, and you will be in the place of the true God, because you have received the mystery of forgiveness for sin and its apology and seal and number and all his commands which I have commanded you I Now, my disciples, be patient, so I will also give you the mystery of forgiveness and its apologies and seals.» When Jesus had said all this to His disciples and given them all these mysteries that he has just accomplished, Jesus said to His disciples:

2"It is necessary that you also receive the mystery of forgiveness of sins, so that in all mysteries Jesus would complete all this to his disciples and teach them the mysteries, the disciples said to him: "Our Lord and Master, we ask You to lay down within us the mystery of forgiveness for sins, its apologies, its seals and its, that we may become "children of light," and not the archonts of those outside the treasures, and that we may be counted as the heir of the kingdom of light and be completed in all mysteries." Jesus said to his disciples, "Be patient, and I will tell you.

3Now, having said to you before I gave you mysteries, that I will give you the mystery of the twelve aeons, their seals and the manner in which they were called upon, now hear you now, having received the mystery of the 12 aeons and the mystery of baptism of life water, and the mystery of the baptism of fire, and the mysteryof the Holy Spirit, and the mystery Of the elimination of wickedness in , — now that I have told you that I shall give you their apologies and the kind, and also these seals, then understand that I am giving you their apologys Coptic-gnoBtisoh Scbriftan. 21 with whom you will render an account before them, ye find. € Gäp. 52. "When you come out of your body and reach the first aeon, and the Arohontes of that aeon step forward before you, seal yourselves with this seal:

4This is his name: 1119 with your two hands. If you have sealed yourselves with this seal and have pronounced its name only once, these apologies say: "Return to the Arohons of the first for I call upon the archonts of the first aeon, they will very much fight and retreat and flee westward, and you will go up. O When you reach the second aeon, then you will step forward. Seal yourselves by this seal This is his name; say him only once, seize that number:

5When you reach the third aeon, step on ßa' and you. Seal yourselves with this seal: I I This is his name: say it only once, grasp that number: 3349 with your hands. If you have sealed yourself with this seal and have said its name only once, then these apologies say: "Return to the third aeons of the Arcbontes of the third aeone, and flee westward to the left; and you will go up. If you arrive at the fourth aeon, OafiafiXm and you. This is his name, say it only once; seize those 4555 with your hands. Once you have sealed yourself by this seal and spoken its name, say these 'Wheat to the&ck and Arcbonten of the fourth aeons, then the arcbontes of the fourth Aeson shall retreat westwards.

6But you go up. When you get to the fifth aeon, laXd-m and xa and PC will step ahead. Seal yourself with this seal: This is his name: say it only once, grasp that number : 5369 with your hands. If you have sealed yourselves with this seal and have pronounced its name only once, then these apologies say: "Return back iaX&w Aimx for I am calling . .." If you have said these apologies, the Arcbontes of the fifth aeons will retreat and flee westward to the left. But you are going upstairs.

7When you reach the sixth aeon, called "the little center," for they gave birth to the six aeons who believed — but the Arcbonts of those places have a small possession because the archonts of those towns believed — so come before you gai.£ afßacod-, the archont of the ® small centre, in the thought whether you might not have received

8If you have sealed yourself with this seal and have only once pronounced its name, these apologies say: >W will be able to rejoicing back to the small middle; we have received the mystery of the twelve aeons and their apologies, for we are calling. < When you also say those names, those archontes will withdraw and allow you to go along and not take your way. For they have stepped before you in the opinion that you did not receive yielicht mysteries They will rejoice with you in great joy because you have received the mystery since you were in the body again they will envy you because you have walked through it again you will go up. When you reach the seventh aeon, then step ahead. Seal yourselves with this seal:

9This is his name: say it once, seize this number: 7889 with your hands. If you have sealed yourself with this one and have only spoken its name once, then these apologies say: "Return to us, for we call upon you." < Again the archonts of the seventh aeon will withdraw, and you will go up. But when you reach the eighth aeon, those archonts, that is lacD, will come before you. Seal yourselves with this Siegeli This is his name only once, tell him, grasp these 8054 with your hands. When you have sealed yourselves with this seal and pronounced his name only once these apologies shall say: »Return to the ninth aeon, let's call loog vaxoi than yyr. < Again the archons of the eighth aeons will retreat, and you will walk upwards. 9 A V V V When you arrive at the ninth Aeo, then enter the ninth aeons before you.

10Seal yourself with this seal: This is his name: Qaxag, say it only once, put it into your hands : 2889. But if you have sealed yourselves with this seal and have pronounced its name only once, then these apologies say: >Return. < Again the archons of the ninth aeon will fall back and you will go up. But when you reach the tenth aeon, mßad-cDi omöatod- &' jciies aeons step before you. Seal yourselves with this i.e.: This is his Name: just say it once, place it 4559 in your hands. If you seal yourselves with this seal, and speak its name only once and have sealed yourselves only once, then say this >Wochet back coessd-mi in the Catod' 9-miaC, for we are calling upon you. < Once again the archontes of the tenth aeons will withdraw, and you will go on top.

11When you reach the eleventh aeon, ayBOJve will come before you the archons of that aeon. Seal yourselves with this seal: O> O V n This is his name: geogagi; say him only once, seize this number' 5558 with your hands. But if you have sealed yourself with this seal and pronounced its name only once, then these apologies say: >Return to us, for we are calling. < Again the archons of the eleventh Aen will withdraw» and you will go up; but when you arrive at the twelfth aeon, there is in that place the invisible God and the barbelless and the unbegotten God; and the bare God is in one place alone in the twelfth aeone, and there are curtains drawn before him.

12For there are other gods in that aeon yiele, called in the treasure of light >archonts < , i.e. the great archons who rule over all aeons, they who serve the invisible God, the Barbelos and the Unbegotten . Again the archons of that aeon come before you whose names these are: Seal yourselves with this seal : This is his name : say him only once, grasp this number : 9885 with your hands . But if you have sealed yourselves with this seal and pronounced its name only once , then say these apologies . >Wish back ßaQßoff / Vj because we call £acog Again will pull back the archons of the twelfth aeon of the Invisible Gk>tte , because you have recepted the twelve I Apologies of the Twelve aeons .

13When you reach the thirteenth aeon, there is the great invisible God and the great virgin spirit and twenty-four of the invisible God who are in that place. But the twenty-four emanations of the invisible God come before you to seize you because of those whom you have received. These are the unincorruptible names of the twenty-four Emanations which appear before you: The first is the second avxoxcoa, the third is the fourth aijaa, the coijco, the sixth lecD, the seventh coiti, the eighth is the ninth, the twelfth iscaiscai, the thirteenth is the fourteenth pacoi, the lacDOaSj is the sixteenth atocoga, the seventeenth iscaoc, the eighteenth .... on, the nineteenth iscaisthe twenty-first iscaisthe twentieth, the twenty-second iscaisthe eighty-third iscas..., the twenty-fourth iscaisthe fourth iscais...