Gospel of Truth · 8 of 17

Coming into Being

1. All spaces are what he has given.

2. They knew they had originated from inside him, like children who are from inside a perfect man.

3. They knew they had not yet received a form, nor had they received a name, each one to whom the Father gives birth.

4. When they receive a form that comes from his knowledge, while in truth they dwell inside him, they know him not.

5. His Father is perfect, knowing every space inside of himself.

6. If he so desires, he reveals the one he desires to, bestowing form on him, and naming him.

7. He names him and makes him exist, in order that those who do not yet exist will be ignorant of the one who formed them.

8. This does not mean I have said that those who do not yet exist are nothing.

9. Instead, they exist inside the one who will desire that they come to exist when he so desires, like time that is yet to come.

10. Before anything comes into existence, he knows what he will make.

11. His fruit, which is yet to exist, knows nothing, and it does nothing.

12. Furthermore, all space that even exists inside the Father comes from the Existent One, the one who formed it out of what did not exist.

13. The one who possesses no root, possesses neither any fruit, yet even though he imagines of himself, “I have come to exist,” he will annihilate himself.

14. This is why the one who has not existed in the least will never exist.