sdom, from whom all wisdoms have
gone forth.

The Third Deep is the Universal Mystery, from whom all mysteries have
gone forth.

The Fourth Deep is the Universal Gnosis, from whom all Gnoses have gone
forth.

The Fifth Deep is the Universal Purity, from whom all purity has gone
forth.

The Sixth Deep is the Silence that contains all silences.

The Seventh Deep is the Universal Super-essential Essence, from whom
all essences have gone forth.

The Eighth Deep is the Forefather from whom and by whom all forefathers
exist.

The Ninth Deep is the All-Father, Self-Father, in whom is the
All-Paternity of those who are Self-Fathers of the all.

The Tenth Deep is the All-Power, from whom all powers have gone forth.

The Eleventh Deep is that in which there is the First Invisible, from
whom have gone forth all invisibles.

The Twelfth Deep is the Truth, from whence all truths have sped forth.

Now the Truth (5) which envelops all things is the Image of the Father,
the End of all things. She is the Mother of all Eternities, who
surrounds all Deeps, the Monad beyond knowledge who cannot be known,
without seal-mark and having all seal-marks within, blessed for ever
and ever. To the Father Ineffable, Inconceivable, Unthinkable,
Unchangeable, all things have been made like in their being. They
rejoiced and have been filled with life-giving powers. They engendered
myriads and myriads and myriads of aeons, and in Joy, because they
rejoiced with the Father (6).

These are the worlds from which the Cross upsprang, and from their
incorporeal limbs the Man has come forth. It is the Father and Fount
of all being who has produced the limbs.

Now from the Father are all names (7), whether Ineffable One, or
Incorruptible One, or Invisible One, or Simple One, or Solitary One, or
Powerful One, or Triple-powered One, or the names that in Silence alone
are named. In the Father are they all, and He it is whom the Outer
Worlds behold [as men behold] the starry sky at night. Even as men [so
gazing into the night] desire to see the Sun, so do the Outer Worlds
desire to see Him because of the very Invisibility which surrounds Him.
He it is who to the aeons gives life perpetually, and by His Word hath
the Indivisible ... the Monad in order to know it. For it is by His
Word that the Holy Pleroma exists. This is the Father, the Second
Creator, by the breath of whose Mouth Providence (Pronoia) has been in
travail of those who were