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It came to pass then, when all the material emanations of Self-willed oppressed her, that she cried out and uttered the fifth repentance, saying: 3"'1. Light of my salvation, I sing praise unto thee in the region of the height and again in the chaos. 4"'2. I sing praise unto thee in my hymn with which I sang praise in the height and with which I sang praise unto thee when I was in the chaos. Let it come into thy presence, and give heed, O Light, to my repentance. 5"'3. For my power is filled up with darkness, and my light hath gone down into the chaos. 6"'4. I am myself become as the rulers of the chaos, who are gone into the darknesses below; I am become as a material body, which hath no one in the height who will save it. 7"'5. I am become also as matters from which their power hath been taken, when they are cast down into the chaos,--[matters] which thou hast not saved, and they are condemned utterly by thy commandment. 8"'6. Now, therefore, have they put me into the darkness below,--in darknesses and matters which are dead and in them [is] no power. 9"'7. Thou hast brought thy commandment upon me and all things which thou hast decreed. 10"'8. And thy spirit hath withdrawn and abandoned me. And moreover by thy commandment the emanations of my eon have not helped me and have hated me and separated themselves from me, and yet am I not utterly destroyed. 11"'9. And my light is diminished in me, and I have cried up to the light with all the light in me, and I have stretched forth my hands unto thee. 12"'10. Now, therefore, O Light, wilt thou not accomplish thy commandment in the chaos, and will not the deliverers, who come according to thy commandment, arise in the darkness and come and be disciples for thee'? 13"'11. Will they not utter the mystery of thy name in the chaos? 14"'12. Or will they not rather utter thy name in a matter of the chaos, in which thou wilt not [thyself] purify? 15"'13. But I have sung praises unto thee, O Light, and my repentance will reach unto thee in the height. "'14. Let thy light come upon me, 16"'15. For they have taken my light, and I am in pain on account of the Light from the time when I was emanated. And when I had looked into the height to the Light, then I looked down below at the light-power in the chaos; I rose up and went down. 17"'16. Thy commandment came upon me, and the terrors, which thou didst decree for me, have brought me into delusion. 18"'17. And they have surrounded me, in numbers as water, they have laid hold on me together all my time. 19"'18. And by thy commandment thou hast not suffered my fellow-emanations to help me, nor hast thou suffered my pair to save me out of my afflictions.' 20"This then is the fifth repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered in the chaos, when all the material emanations of Self-willed had continued and oppressed her." ‹Previous chapterPistis Sophia 40Next chapterPistis Sophia 42›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public domain in the United States