For I am 31
your own son.
And it is you 1191
who are my intellect, my father.
Now, 2 I for my part
have sown and procreated 3
while you, for your part, have beheld the Magnitudes 4
and have ceaselessly stood at rest .
I 5
bless you, [O] Father; bless me, O
6 Father.
It is because of you that I exist; 7
it is because of God that you exist.
Because 8 of you I
exist in the presence of 9
that very one.
You are light, 10
beholding light; you have 11
shown forth light.
You are a 12 Mirotheid
(offspring of Mirothea); it is you who are my Mirotheos. 13
I bless you as 14
a deity, I bless your 15
divinity:
the God who 18
first stood at rest!
You came with goodness, 19
you appeared, and you 20
manifested goodness.
I shall utter
21 your name: for you are a prime
22 name.
You are unengendered: for your part, you
23 have appeared
that you 24 might
show forth those that are eternal. 25
It is you who are the one that is; therefore 26
you manifested those that truly exist.
27
It is you who are spoken of 28
by voice, 29 but
by intellect you are 30
glorified .
It is you who are 31
powerful everywhere.
Therefore because of you and your seed 32
even [the] perceptible universe 33
knows you:
you are merciful.
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And you derive from another kind (i.e., the primal triad) 2
and it presides over another kind (i.e., the Barbelo Aeon). 3
But now, you derive from 4
another kind,
and it presides over another 5
kind (i.e., the seed of Seth).
You derive from another 6
kind,
for you are [dissimilar] (i.e., to other
humans).
And you 7 are merciful,
for you are eternal.
8
It is over a kind that you preside,
9
for you have caused all these (i.e.,
the spiritual "seed") to increase.
And (you did this) for the sake of 10
my seed,
for it is you who know 11
that it resides in (the realms of) procreation.
And they 12 derive
from another kind,
for 13
they are dissimilar (i.e., to other humans).
And they reside above 14
other kinds (i.e., other humans),
for they reside in 15
life.
You are a Mirotheos (perhaps “divine anointed one”
myro+theos)! 16
I praise its power, which has been
17 given unto me.
O you who have been divided into the pentad!
O 21 you who have
been given to us in triple 22
power!
O you who have been 23
ingenerately generated!
O you who 24 came
forth from the superior
and for the sake of 25
the inferior
have gone 26
forth into (or: from) the middle!
You are a father 27
issued from a father, 28
a word issued from a command. 29
We praise you, O Triple Male, 30
for you have unified the All 31
from them all,
for you have 32
empowered us.
From Unity you originated; 33
through Unity you came forth; 34
into Unity you have entered.
[You] have saved, 35
you have saved, you have saved us!
O 36 crown-bearer,
O crown-bestower, 1211
we praise you eternally. 2
We praise you, we who have been saved 3
as the perfect individuals, 4
perfect because 5
of you, [having become] perfect along with you. 6
O perfect one! O perfecter! 7
The one who is complete through all these!8
The one who is everywhere similar!
O Triple Male! 9
You have stood at rest; you were first 10
to stand at rest.
You have become divided everywhere, 11
and you have remained One. 12
And 13 whomever
you willed, you saved,14
and all those who are worthy, you will to be saved.
You are 15 perfect!
You are perfect! 16
You are perfect!
The First 17 Stele of Seth18
THE SECOND 19 STELE OF SETH20
the first glory of the invisible Father! 23
O you (sg.) 24
who are called 25
perfect,
you yourself first saw 26
that the one who truly pre-existents 27
is non-being,
and 28 from it
and through 29 it
you have eternally proceeded. 30
O non-being One 31
from an undivided 32
Triple [Powered] One,
You are a triple 33
power!
You are [a] great monad 34
from [a] pure monad!
1221 You are
a superior monad,
the 2 first [projection
(shadow)] of the holy Father, light 3
from light! 4
[We] bless you, 5
O generator of perfection and 6
supplier of aeons!
You yourself have [seen] that the 7
eternal ones
derive from a projection (shadow). 8
And you have given rise to multiplicity:
Yet 9 you turned
out to remain 10
One,
even though by giving rise to multiplicity through division
you are 11 threefold.
Truly you are 12
threefold!
You are One (fem.) 13
belonging to the One (masc.),
and you derive 14
from its projection.
You are a Kalyptos (hidden one)! 15
You are a universe of understanding, 16
knowing that those belonging to the One 17
derive from a projection (shadow).
And these 18
are yours in thought.
For 19
their sake you have empowered the eternal ones by Substantiality; 20
you have empowered21
divinity by Vitality; 22
you have empowered Mentality by 23
goodness.
By 24
Blessedness you have empowered 25
the projections flowing from the One. 26
By Mentality you have empowered one; 27
By Quality (txt: "creation") you have empowered another; 28
You have empowered the equal 29
and unequal, the 30
similar and the dissimilar. 31
With generation and 32
intelligible forms
you have empowered 33
others in Being [to flourish] with generation. 34
You have empowered 1231
these—this is Kalyptos (hidden one)— 2
by thought,
and you [have] emanated unto 3
these and [out of] these.
You are divided 4
among them, and you 5
become a great male Intellect, Protophanes. 6
O paternal God! 7
Divine child! 8
Generator of multiplicity!
By division 9
of all those that truly exist 10
you have appeared to them all as 11
a Word (i.e., Autogenes?).
And you possess 12
them all ingenerately, 13
eternally, 14imperishably.
You are 17
wisdom (Sophia)! You are knowledge! You 18
are truth!
Because of you is 19
Life; from you comes Life. 20
Because of you is Intellect; from 21
you comes Intellect.
You are Intellect; 22
you are a universe of truth. 23
You are a triple power; you are 24
threefold!
Truly, you are 25
triple, O Aeon of 26
aeons!
It is you alone 27
who see purely the 28
eternal and unengendered primal principles, 29
but also the primal divisions, according as 30
you have been divided.
Unify us 31
according as you have been unified! 32
Teach us [about] the things you see! 33
Empower us, that we might 1241
be saved to eternal life. 2
For, as for us, we are a projection (shadow) 3
of you,
[just] as you are 4
a projection (shadow) of the one that 5
primally preexists.
Hear 6
us first—we are eternal! 7
Hear us—the 8
perfect individuals!
It is you who are the aeon 9
of aeons, the all-perfect One 10
who is unified.
You have saved! You have saved! 12
We give thanks! We bless you always! 13
We will glorify you! 14
The Second Stele 15
of Seth 16
THE THIRD STELE 17
We have seen! We have seen! We have seen the one that 19
truly preexists, 20
who truly exists, who is 21
the eternal first principle!
O unengendered one, 22
from you come the eternal ones, 23
even the aeons,
the All-perfect 24
who are unified, and the 25
Perfect individuals!
We bless you, 26
O non-being 27 Existence
prior to existences, 28
first Being prior to 29
beings, Father of 30
Divinity and Vitality, 31
creator of Intellect, 32
bestower of Good, 33
bestower of 34 Blessedness!
We all bless 35
you, O knower, with 36
[glorificatory] praise,
the one 1251
on whose account all 2
[these are].
[It is you who knows those who truly] 3
[exist],
O you who know yourself 4
through yourself alone!
For there is nothing 5
that is active prior to 6
you.
You are spirit, alone and living. 7
And [you] know Unity, 8
the Unity that is yours 9
of which we cannot speak.
Indeed 10 your
light is shining upon us. 11
Command us 12
to see you, so that 13
we might be saved!
It is knowledge of you that 14
is the salvation of us all. 15
Command! If you 16
command, we have been saved!
We have seen you by means of Intellect. 18
You are all of these, for you save 19
them all, you who 20
neither shall be saved nor have been 21
saved by them. 22
For, as for you, you have commanded us. 23
You are One, you are One!
Just as 24 one
would say 25 of you that
you are One,
you are a single, living spirit. 26
How shall we 27 name
you? It is not ours to say! 28
For you are the Existence 29
of them all; 30
you are the Life of 31
them all;
you are the Intellect 32
of them all. 33
[For it is] you in whom [they] all rejoice.
1261 It is
you who have commanded them all 2
to [be saved]
by 3 your [word
to the extent that] they [are able]. 4
O [first Glory] 5
before him, [O] Kalyptos (hidden one), 6
blessed Senaon, [self-]generated one! 7
[Asi]neus! 8
Mephneus! Optaon ! Elemaon the great power! 9
Emouniar! 10
Nibareus! Kandephoros! Aphredon! 11
Deiphaneus!
You 12
who are Armedon for me,
O generator of powers: 13
Thalanatheus! Antitheus! 14
It is you who exist within 15
yourself,
you who are before 16
yourself,
and after you 17
none came into activity. 18
With what shall we 19
bless you? We cannot! 20
But as inferiors 21
we give thanks to you, 22
for you as the superior have commanded 23
us to glorify you
to the extent that we are able.
24
We praise you since we have been saved; 25
we glorify 26 you
constantly!
Now we 27 glorify
you that we might be 28
saved to eternal salvation. 29
We have blessed you, for we are 30
able.
We have been saved, for you 31
have always desired that 32
we all do so, and we all 33
did so. 34
[We will] not [do it] through [...] 1271
[...] 2 [...] 3
[...], 4 who has 5
[...],
we together with those 6
who [have been saved].