1 This is because [we do] not [understand unspeakable things, and we] do not understand what [cannot be measured], apart from him who originated [from] him, that is, [the] Father, because he [alone] is the one who [explained] it to us, given that he is the one who studies him[self] inside his light that surrounds [him], that is, the spring [of] living water, and he is the one who supplies [every aeon], and in every direction (at once) he [observes] his image by gazing in the spring of the [Spirit].
2 He is the one who places his desire inside his [water]-light, [which dwells in the] spring of the [pure light]-water [that] surrounds him, and [his (potential) thought became] actual, and she approached, [that is], she who had [appeared] in front of him inside [the glow of] his light.
3 This is the first [power, which existed] before the All, and [which issued] forth from his mind.
4 She [is the Providence of the All] — her light [glows like his] light — the [perfect] power who is [the] image of the perfect unseen, virginal Spirit.
5 [The first power] (is) the glory of Barbelo, the perfect glory inside the aeons, the glory of the revelation.
6 She extolled the virginal Spirit, and she is the one who praised him, because on account of him she had come forth.
7 This is the first thought, his image.
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