that they might see Him, for He is in truth Invisible; and for their
sakes He has revealed in words His Logos, so that they might know Him
and become gods and perfect.

When the Mother established the Protogennetor as her son, she gave unto
him the Power of the Sonship; she gave unto him armies of Angels and
Archangels; she gave unto him twelve Powers who served him; she gave
unto him a robe to consummate all things in him, for in it is revealed
every kind of body: the body of fire, the body of water, the body of
air [? spirit], the body of earth, the body of wind, the body angelic,
the body archangelic, the body of Powers, the body of Dominions, the
body of Gods, the body of Lords--in a word, every kind of body, so that
nothing might hinder him from mounting into the heights or descending
into the depths of Noun. This is the Protogennetor to whom those of
the internal and external Spaces have promised all things that please
him, and it is he who separates all matter; for he brooded over it like
a bird who stretches her wings over her eggs. Even thus did the
Protogennetor unto matter, and made myriads and myriads of species and
kinds come forth. When Matter was warmed she produced the multitudes
of Powers that were in her, and he separated them into species and
kinds. He gave them a law to love one another, to honour God and to
praise Him, and to seek for Him, who He is and what He is, and to
wonder at the place from whence they had come forth, so narrow and so
sad, and not to return thither again, but to follow him who had given
them a law and made them come out of the darkness; of Matter, their
Mother. He had said to them, "Let there be light." For they did not
know if there were such a thing as light or not. Then he gave them the
command not to hurt one another, and left them to go to the Space of
the Mother of the Universe beside the Propator and the Autopator, so
that together they might draw up those who had come forth from matter.

Then the Mother of the Universe (34), the Propator, the Autopator, the
Protogennetor, and the Powers of the aeon of the Mother sang a great
hymn to the One and Only God, praising Him and saying:

"Thou alone art Boundless, Thou only art the Deep, Thou only art the
Incomprehensible One, for Thou art He whom all beings seek and [without
Thy grace] find Thee not, for none can know Thee against Thy will, and
none can praise Thee against Thy will. For Thy will only is a Space
for