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Gospel of Truth · 8 of 18

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.

Asked of Guide

Why does the Father 'bestow form' and 'name' some beings while others remain unformed?

The chapter says the Father reveals and names whom he desires, giving form so those outside that naming remain ignorant of their maker; receiving form comes “from his knowledge” and makes them exist. It emphasizes that existence is granted by the Father’s will and knowledge—unformed beings still “exist inside” him like future time, known by him before they are made.

This explains creation as intentional disclosure rather than spontaneous emergence: naming and forming enact being. That idea echoes Plotinus’ Essays where intellect brings the forms into manifest being by apprehension, though here the emphasis is on the Father’s sovereign decision to reveal.

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Echoes elsewhere

The Yoga-Vasishtha-Maharamayana of Valmiki · Hinduismthis and that, but upon waking to reason, we find ourselves as none of these, but the pure spirit). 11. Those who dream themselves headless beings in their sleep, and remain so in Heaven and Hell · Swedenborgthey have thought in the world, from which they have anxieties and pangs of conscience (n. 1106). Some by spiritual captivity, which is ignorance of truth and interception of truth The Sophia of Jesus Christ · Gnosticismevil intention, and all of them have been disgraced, and have ‹not› risen from their ignorance. 13. This is why, then, I came to this place, that they could be joined with that Spi