1When Abraham […] to see what he was going to see, [he] circumcised the flesh of the foreskin, [telling] us that it's necessary to destroy the flesh.

2[Most (things)] of [the] world can stand up and live as long as their [insides are hidden.

3If they're revealed], they die, as [illustrated] by the visible human. [As long as] the human's guts are hidden, the human is alive.

4If their guts are exposed and come out of them, the human will die.

5It's the same way with the tree.

6While its root is hidden, it blossoms and grows.

7If its root is exposed, the tree dries up.

8That's what it's like with everything that's born in the world, not only the revealed, but also the hidden; because as long as the root of evil is hidden, it's strong.

9But if it's recognized, it dissolves, and if it's revealed, it dies.

10So the Word says, "Already the axe is laid at the root of the trees." It won't (just) cut, (because) that which will be cut blossoms again.

11Rather, the axe digs down into the ground until it brings up the root.

12Jesus plucked out the root completely, but others did so partially.

13As for us, let every one of us dig down to the root of the evil within and pluck it out from its root in us.

14It'll be uprooted if we recognize it.

15But if we don't recognize it, it takes root within us and bears its fruit in us.

16It masters us, and we're forced to serve it.

17It captures us so that we do what we do [not] want to; and we do [not] do what we want to. [It's] powerful because we haven't recognized it.

18It's active as long as [it exists]. [Ignorance] is the mother of [all evil].

19Ignorance will cause [death, because] what exists from [ignorance] neither did exist nor [does exist], nor will they come into being […] they'll be perfected when the whole truth is revealed, because the truth is like ignorance.

20When it's hidden, it rests within itself, but if it's revealed and recognized, it's glorified inasmuch as it's stronger than ignorance and error.

21It gives freedom.

22The Word says, "If you'll know the truth, the truth will make you free." Ignorance is slavery; knowledge is freedom.

23If we know the truth, we'll find the fruits of truth within us.

24If we unite with it, it'll receive our fullness.

25Now we have what's revealed of creation.

26We say, "Those who are strong are honorable, but those who are hidden are weak and scorned." That's what it's like with those who are revealed of the truth; they're weak and scorned, but the hidden are strong and honorable.

27But the mysteries of the truth are revealed in types and images.

28The chamber is hidden, however; it's the Holy in the Holy.

29At first, the veil concealed how God managed the creation, but when the veil is torn and what's inside is revealed, then this house will be left behind [like] a desert, or rather, will be [destroyed].

30And all divinity will flee [from] these places, not into the Holies [of the] Holies, because it won't be able to unite with the pure [light] and the [flawless] fullness, [but] it'll come to be under the wings of the cross [and under] its arms.

31This ark will [become their] salvation when the flood of water surges over them.

32If some belong to the priesthood, they'll be able to enter inside the veil with the high priest.

33So the veil wasn't torn only at the top, since it would've been open only to those at the top; nor was it torn only at the bottom, since it would've been revealed only to those at the bottom; but it was torn from the top to the bottom.

34Those at the top opened to us the bottom, so that we'll enter the secret of the truth.

35This truly is what's honorable, what's strong, but we'll enter there through scorned types and weaknesses.

36They're humbled in the presence of the perfect glory.

37There's glory that's better than glory; there's power that's better than power.

38So the perfect was opened to us with the secrets of the truth, and the Holies of the Holies were revealed, and the chamber invited us in.

39As long as it's hidden, evil is inactive, but it hasn't been removed from among the Holy Spirit's seed.

40They're slaves of evil.

41But whenever it's revealed, then the perfect light will flow out upon everyone, and all of them who are in it will [receive the chrism].

42Then the slaves will be made free and the captives will be redeemed.

43"[Every] plant [which] my Father who's in heaven [hasn't] planted [will be] uprooted." Those who are separated will unite […] will be filled.