1Whoever comes out of the world can no longer be bound because they were in the world.

2They're revealed to be above the desire of the [… and] fear.

3They're master over […] they're better than envy.

4If […] come, they (the powers) bind and choke [them].

5How will [they] be able to escape the [great powers …]?

6How will they be able to […]?

7There are some who [say], "We're faithful," in order that […] [impure spirit] and demon, because if they had the Holy Spirit, no impure spirit would cling to them.

8Don't fear the flesh, nor love it.

9If you fear it, it'll master you; if you love it, it'll swallow and choke you.

10Someone exists either in this world, or in the resurrection, or in the middle places.

11May I never be found there!

12There's both good and evil in this world.

13Its good things aren't good, and its evil things aren't evil.

14But there's an evil after this world which is truly evil: that which is called "the middle." It's death.

15While we're in this world, it's right for us to acquire the resurrection for ourselves, so that when we're stripped of the flesh we'll be found in the rest and not travel in the middle, because many stray on the way.

16It's good to come out of the world before one sins.

17There are some who neither want to nor can, but others who, if they wanted to, (still) wouldn't benefit, because they didn't act.

18The wanting makes them sinners.

19But (even) if they don't want, justice will (still) be hidden from them.

20It's not the will, and it's not the act.

21An apostle saw [in a] vision some people confined in a burning house, and bound with burning […], thrown […] of the burning […] them in […] and they said to them [… able] to be saved […] they didn't want to, and they received […] punishment, which is called "the [outer] darkness," because it […].

22The soul and the spirit came into being from water and fire.

23The offspring of the bridal chamber was from water and fire and light.

24The fire is the chrism, the light is the fire.

25I'm not talking about that formless fire, but of the other one whose form is white, which is bright and beautiful, and which gives beauty.

26Truth didn't come into the world naked, but it came in types and images.

27It (the world) won't receive it in any other way.

28There's a rebirth, and an image of rebirth.

29It's truly necessary to be begotten again through the image.

30What's the resurrection and the image?

31Through the image it's necessary for it to arise.

32The bridal chamber and the image?

33Through the image it's necessary for them to enter the truth, which is the restoration.

34It's not only necessary for those who acquire the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, but they too have been acquired for you.

35If someone doesn't acquire them, the name will also be taken from them.

36But they're received in the chrism of the […] of the power of the cross.

37The apostles called this "[the] right and the left," because this person is no longer a [Christian], but a Christ.

38The Lord [did] everything in a mystery: a baptism, a chrism, a Eucharist, a redemption, a bridal chamber […] he [said], "I came to make [the below] like the [above and the outside] like the [inside, and to unite] them in the place." […] here through [types …] Those who say, "[…] there's one above […," they're wrong, because] what's revealed is that […], that [which] is called "what's below," and what's hidden is to it what's above it, because it's good, and they say "inside and what's outside and what's outside the outside." So the Lord called destruction "the outer darkness." There's nothing outside it.

39He said, "My Father who's hidden." He said, "Enter your closet, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father who's hidden," that is, the one who's within all of them.

40But the one who's within all of them is the fullness.

41Beyond that, there's nothing else within.

42This is what's called "that which is above them."

43Before Christ, some came from where they were no longer able to enter, and they went where they were no longer able to come out.

44Then Christ came.

45He brought out those who entered, and brought in those who went out.