1Every realm emanates from him.

2They know they’ve come out from him like children who are from someone who’s completely mature.

3They knew they hadn’t yet received form or a name.

4The Father gives birth to each one.

5Then, when they receive form from his knowledge, although they’re really within him, they don’t know him.

6But the Father is complete, knowing every realm that’s within him.

7If he wants to, he reveals whomever he wants, giving them a form and a name.

8He gives a name to them, and causes those to come into being who, before they come into being, are ignorant of the one who made them.

9I’m not saying, then, that those who haven’t yet come into being are nothing, but they exist in the one who will want them to come into being when he wants, like a later time.

10Before everything is revealed, he knows what he’ll produce.

11But the fruit which he hasn’t yet revealed doesn’t yet know anything, nor does it do anything.

12In addition, every realm which is itself in the Father is from the one who exists, who establishes them from what doesn’t exist.

13For those who have no root have no fruit either.

14They think to themselves, “I’ve come into being,” but they’ll dissolve by themselves.

15Because of this, those who didn’t exist at all won’t exist.