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Gospel of Truth · 14 of 18
The Father’s Paradise
1.He is beneficent.
2.He knows his plantings, that he has planted them in his paradise, but his paradise is where he rests.
3.This is the perfection inside the thought of the Father, and these are the words of his meditation.
4.Each of his words pertains to his will of oneness, with the revelation of his word.
5.When they dwelt inside the depth of his thought, the word that first proceeded forth revealed them together with a mind that speaks the word of oneness with a silent grace.
6.He was called “Thought” because they dwelt inside it before they were revealed.
7.It then transpired that he was the first to proceed forth, when the will of the one who willed desired such, it being the will in which the Father reposes himself, and with which he is pleased.
8.Nothing happens without him, and nothing happens without the will of the Father. However, his will is unknowable.
9.His footprint is the will, and none can know it, and none can be aware of it so as to grasp him.
10.Instead, when he wills, he wills this, even should the vision not please them somewhat in God’s presence, that the Father be desired, because he knows the beginning of every one of them, and their end, given that at the end he will make enquiry of them in front of their face.
11.The end is the obtaining of knowledge concerning what is concealed.
12.This is the Father, from whom the beginning originated, to whom all who have originated from him will return.
13.They have been revealed for the majesty and joy of his name.
Asked of Guide
Why does the chapter call the Word “Thought” and say beings dwelt in it before revelation?
The chapter says the Father’s inner perfection lives in his meditation, and the Word is named “Thought” because those beings existed inside that thought before becoming manifest: “they dwelt inside the depth of his thought.” This presents the Word as the medium of prior inner being, the silent mind through which the Father’s will and the revelation of oneness are prepared.
Revelation happens when the Father’s will “proceeded forth” and pleased him, so the Word/Thought brings what is latent into appearance while preserving that inner unity. This mirrors themes in Valentinian texts like the Gospel of Philip, which also treats intermediary principles (logos/thinker) as the locus where divine things are known before becoming visible.
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