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title: "Pistis Sophia"
author: "Anonymous (Gnostic)"
translator: "G. R. S. Mead"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hermetica & Gnostics"
section: 17 of 132
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/17/
cite: "Anonymous (Gnostic), tr. G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia, section 17. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/17/"
---

# Pistis Sophia

*Anonymous (Gnostic), tr. G. R. S. Mead*

The risen Jesus teaches his disciples the fall and rescue of Sophia, in Mead's 1921 translation.

## 17. First Book · Chapter 35

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/17/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/17/#p-N

[¶0] Jesus continued again in the discourse and said: "Pistis Sophia again continued and still sang praises in a second repentance, saying thus:

[¶1] "'1. Light of lights, in whom I have had faith, leave me not in the darkness until the end of my time.

[¶2] "'2. Help me and save me through thy mysteries; incline thine ear unto me and save me.

[¶3] "'3. May the power of thy light save me and carry me to the higher æons; for thou wilt save me and lead me into the height of thy æons.

[¶4] "'4. Save me, O Light, from the hand of this lion-faced power and from the hands of the emanations of god Self-willed.

[¶5] "'5. For it is thou, O Light, in whose light I have had faith and in whose light I have trusted from the beginning.

[¶6] "'6. And I have had faith in it from the time when it emanated me, and thou thyself didst make me to emanate; and I have had faith in thy light from the beginning.

[¶7] "'7. And when I had faith in thee, the rulers of the æons mocked at me, saying: She hath ceased in her mystery. Thou art my saviour and thou art my deliverer and thou art my mystery, O Light.

[¶8] "'8. My mouth was filled with glorifying, that I may tell of the mystery of thy grandeur at all times.

[¶9] "'9. Now, therefore, O Light, leave me not in the chaos for the completion of my whole time; forsake me not, O Light.

[¶10] "'10. For all the emanations of Self-willed have taken from me my whole light-power and have surrounded me. They desired to take away my whole light from me utterly and have set a watch on my power,

[¶11] "'11. Saying one to another together: The Light hath forsaken her, let us seize her and take away the whole light in her.

[¶12] "'12. Therefore then, O Light, cease not from me; turn thee, O Light, and save me from the hands of the merciless.

[¶13] "'13. May they who would take away my power, fall down and become powerless. May they who would take away my light-power from me, be enwrapped in darkness and sink into powerlessness.'

[¶14] "This then is the second repentance which Pistis Sophia hath uttered, singing praises to the Light."