Gnostic Poem of Sophia

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I was sent forth from the power and I
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have come to those who reflect upon me
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and I have been found among those who
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seek after me look upon me you reflected
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and you here is healing you who are
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waiting for me taken to yourselves and
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do not banish me from your sight
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and do not make your voice hate me nor
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your hearing do not be ignorant of me
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anywhere or at any time be on your guard
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do not be ignorant of me for I am the
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first and the last
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I am the honored one and the scorned one
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I am the whore and the Holy One I am the
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wife and the virgin I am the mother and
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the daughter
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I am the members of my mother I am the
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barren one and many are her sons I am
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she whose wedding is great and I have
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not taken a husband
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I am the Midwife and she who does not
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bear I am the solace of my labor pains I
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am the bride in the bridegroom and it is
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my husband who begat me I am the mother
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of my father and the sister of my
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husband and he is my offspring I am the
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slave of him who prepared me I am the
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ruler of my offspring but he is the one
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who begat me before the time on a
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birthday and he's my offspring in due
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time and my power is from him
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I am the staff of his power in his youth
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and he is the rod of my old age and
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whatever he wills happens to me I am the
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silence that is incomprehensible and the
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idea whose remembrances frequent
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I am the voice who sounds money fold and
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the word his appearance is multiple I am
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the utterance of my name why you who
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hate me do you love me and hate those
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who love me you who deny me confess me
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and you will confess me deny me you
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would tell the truth about me lie about
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me and you have lied about me tell the
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truth about Ruth you who know me the
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ignorance of me and those who have not
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known Li let them know me for I am
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knowledge and ignorance
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I have shame and boldness I am shameless
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I am ashamed I am strength and I am fear
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I am war and I am peace give heed to me
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I am the one who was disgraced and the
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great one give heed to my poverty and my
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wealth do not be ignorant to me when I
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am cast out upon the earth and you will
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find me those that are to come and do
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not look upon me on the dung heap nor go
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and leave me cast out or you will find
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me in the kingdoms and do not look upon
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me when I'm cast out among those who are
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disgraced in the least places nor
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laughing
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and do not cast me out among those who
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are slain violence but I I am
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compassionate and I am cool be on your
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guard do not hate my obedience and do
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not love my self-control in my weakness
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do not forsake me and do not be afraid
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of my power for why do you despise my
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fear and curse my pride but I'm she who
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exists in all fears and strength and
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tremble I am she who is weak and done
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well in a pleasant place
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I am senseless and I and wires
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why have you hated me in your councils
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for I shall be silent among those who
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are silent and I shall appear and speak
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why then have you hated me you Greeks
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because I am a barbarian among the
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barbarians for I'm the wisdom of the
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Greeks and the knowledge of the
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barbarians
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I am the judgment of the Greeks and of
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the barbarians I am the one whose image
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is great in Egypt and the one who has no
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image among the barbarians I am the one
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who has been hated everywhere and who
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has been loved everywhere I am the one
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who may call life and you have called
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death I am the one who they call law and
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you have called lawlessness I am the one
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in you are pursued and I am the one whom
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you have seized I am the one who you are
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scattered and you have gathered me
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together I am the one before whom you
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have been ashamed and you have been
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shameless to me I am she who does not
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keep festival
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and I'm she whose vessels are many I am
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the godless and I'm the one who's gone
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is great I'm the one whom you have
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reflected apart and you have scorned me
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I am unlearned and they learned for me
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I'm the one you had despised and reflect
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upon me I am the one whom you have
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hidden from and you appear to me but
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whenever you hide yourselves I myself
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will appear for whenever you appear I
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myself will hide for me those who have
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to it senselessly
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take me understanding from green
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and take me to your cells from the
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understanding and green and take me to
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yourselves from places that are ugly and
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then ruin and rub from those who are
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good even though the ugliness and to
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shame take me to your sounds shamelessly
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and out of shamelessness and shame
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upgrade my members in themselves and
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come forward to me you who know live and
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you can know my members and establish
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the great ones among the small first
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creatures come forward to childhood and
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do not despise it because it is smaller
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and it is little and do not turn away
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greatnesses in some parts from the small
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senses
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so the small nurses are known from the
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greatnesses why do you curse me and
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honor me you have wounded if you have
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had mercy do not separate me from the
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first ones whom you have known and do
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not cast anyone out your turn anyone
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away turn you away and lo do not what is
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mine
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I know the first ones and those arctan
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know me but I'm the mind of and the
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restaurant
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I am the knowledge of my enquiry and the
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finding of those who seek after me and
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the command of those who ask of me and
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the power of the powers in my knowledge
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of the angels who have been sent at my
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word and of the gods in their seasons by
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my counsel and the spirits of every man
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who exists with me and the women who
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dwell within me I am the one who is
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honored and who is kind and his despised
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scornfully I am peace and war has come
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because of me and I am an alien and a
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citizen
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I am the substance in the one who has no
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substance those who are without
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association with me are ignorant of me
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and those who are in my substance of the
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ones who know me those who are close to
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me have been ignorant of me and those
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who are far away from me and the ones
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who have known me on the day when I am
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close to you you are far away from me
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and on the day when I far away from you
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I am close to you I am within I am and
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the nature's I am of the creation of the
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spirits requests of the souls
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I am control and uncontrollable
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I am the Union the dissolution I am the
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abiding and I am the dissolution I am
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the one below and they come up to me I
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am the judgment under the acquittal
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I am sinless and the root of sin derives
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from me
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I am lust in outward appearance and
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interior self-control exists within me I
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am the hearing which is attainable to
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everyone and the speech which cannot be
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grasped
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I am the mute who does not speak and
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great is my multitude and words hear me
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in my gentleness and learn of me in my
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roughness I am she who cries out and I
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am cast forth upon the face of the earth
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I prepare the bread and my mind within I
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am the knowledge of my name I'm the one
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who cries out and I listen I appear and
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walk in seal of mine I am the defense I
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am the one who is called truth and
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iniquity you honor me and you whisper
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against me you who are vanquished joy to
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them who vanquished you before they give
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judgment again stream because the judge
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and partiality exist in there if you are
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condemned by this one who will acquit
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you or if you are acquitted by him who
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will be able to detain you for what is
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inside of you is what is outside of you
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and the one who fashions you on the
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outside is the one who shaped you on the
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inside and what you see outside of you
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you see inside of you
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and this is your garment hear me you
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hear it and learn of my words you know
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me I am the hearing that is attainable
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to everything I am the speech that
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cannot be grasped
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I am the name of the sound and the sound
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of the name I am the sign of the letter
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and the designation of the division and
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I light here as to you the great power
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and will not move the name to the one
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who created me and I will speak his name
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look then at his words and all the
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writings which have been completed give
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heed then you hear us and you also the
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angels and those who have been sent
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induce spirits whoever risen from the
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dead
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for I am the one who alone exists and I
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have no one who will judge me for many
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other pleasant form which exist in
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numerous sins and D consistencies and
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disgraceful passions and fleeting
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pleasures which men embrace until they
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become sober and go up to the resting
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place and they will find me there and
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they will live and they will not die
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again
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you