“See Father,” said Jesus,
“how pursued by evil, (the soul) is wandering far from thy spirit over the earth. She tries to flee from hateful chaos; she knows not how to emerge from it. To that end Father, send me! I will descend, bearing all the seals. I will pass through all the aeons; I will unveil every mystery; I will denounce the appearances of the gods and, under the name of Gnosis, I will transmit the secrets of the holy way.”[Hymn of the Soul, attributed to the Naassene Gnostics in the Philosophumena, V, 10, 2][Let the soul
(male-holy-knowledge) prevail over the spirit
(female-spirit-thruth), so they can both
(as a whole - as one, affirming the duality) rise to where
(the realm) they belong -
avoiding death. This is the way, thus what happens to the flesh is inconsequential.]
