Selections from “Pistis Sophia” – Chapters 28 to 31, Part 1 of 2

“Pistis Sophia,” meaning “Faith-Wisdom,” or “Faith in the Light,” is a Gnostic scripture of teachings given by Lord Jesus Christ in the 11 years following His resurrection. In this scripture, Lord Jesus Christ addresses His disciples regarding different aspects of Heaven and the Divine. In these teachings, Jesus also speaks of aeons, symbolizing lower and higher realms of existence, along with the Treasury of Light, which represents the attainment of Heavenly reunion with the Divine.

“Jesus continued again in His discourse and said to His disciples: ‘Listen concerning the things which befell me among the rulers of the twelve aeons and all their rulers and their lords and their authorities and their angels and their archangels. When then they had seen the vesture of light which was about me, they and their unpaired, then every one of them saw the mystery of his name, that it was on my vesture of light, which was about me. They fell down all together, adored the vesture of light which was about me, and cried out all together, saying: ‘How has the Lord of the Universe passed through us without our knowing it?’”

“‘It came to pass then, when this befell among the tyrants who are below these rulers, that they all lost power and fell down to the ground in their aeons and became as the dead world-dwellers with no breath in them, as they became in the hour when I took from them their power.’”

“‘It came to pass then thereafter that I ascended to the veils of the thirteenth aeon. It came to pass then, when I had arrived at their veils, that they drew apart of their own accord and opened themselves for me. I entered in into the thirteenth aeon and found Pistis Sophia below the thirteenth aeon all alone and no one of them with her.’”

“‘It came to pass then, when Pistis Sophia saw me shining most exceedingly and with no measure for the light which was about me, that she was in great agitation and gazed at the light of my vesture. She saw the mystery of her name on my vesture and the whole glory of its mystery, for formerly she was in the region of the height, in the thirteenth aeon, but she was wont to sing praises to the higher light, which she had seen in the veil of the Treasury of the Light.’”