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be brought to the Space of the Triple Power
for self-perfecting, and be escorted in the Space of the Five
Ingenerables.
There is also another Space called the Deep, where there are three
Paternities. In the first thereof is Kalupto, the Hidden God. In the
Second Paternity there are Five Trees, and in the midst of them an
altar. An Alone-begotten Word stands upon the altar, having the twelve
countenances of the Mind of all things, and before him are the prayers
of all beings placed. The Universe rejoices over him because he has
manifested himself. He it is that the Invisible World has struggled to
know, and it is on his account that the Man has appeared. In the Third
Paternity is Silence and the Fount which twelve Anointed Ones
contemplate, beholding themselves therein. In him are also found Love
and the Universal Mind and furthermore the Universal Mother from whom
has gone forth that Ennead whose names are Protia, Pantia, Pangenia,
Loxophania, Loxogenia, Loxokrateia, Loia, and Iouel. She is the First
Beyond Knowledge, the Mother of the Ennead, who completes a Decad, come
forth from the Monad of the Unknowable.
Following there is another Space, more stretched out, where is hidden a
great treasure which the Universe surrounds. [This Space] is the
Immeasurable Deep where is an altar whereon three Powers are gathered:
a Solitary being, an Unknowable being, and an Infinite being, in the
midst of whom is revealed a Sonship called the Anointed Glorifier.
This is he who glorifies everyone and impresses upon him the seal of
the Father, who brings everybody into the eternity of the First Father
who is the One, He for whose sake all is and without whom nothing is.
Now this Anointed One has twelve faces, visages Unbounded,
Uncontainable, Ineffable, Simple, Imperishable, Solitary, Unknowable,
Invincible, Thrice-powerful, Unshakable, Ingenerable, and Pure. These
Spaces, where are these twelve founts, named Founts of Reasons, full of
eternal life, are called Deeps as well as the Twelve Countenances,
because they have received in them all Spaces of Paternity on behalf of
the Pleromata and the Fruit which the Pleroma emanated, who is Christ
who has received the Pleroma in Himself.
Beyond all these Spaces comes the Deep of Setheus. This he who is in
them all and is surrounded by twelve Paternities, even in the midst of
these is he. Each Paternity has three faces. The first of them is an
Indivisible One, and three faces
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