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title: "Pistis Sophia"
author: "Anonymous (Gnostic)"
translator: "G. R. S. Mead"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hermetica & Gnostics"
section: 35 of 132
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/35/
cite: "Anonymous (Gnostic), tr. G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia, section 35. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/35/"
---

# 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.

## 35. First Book · Chapter 53

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/35/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/35/#p-N

[¶0] When then Jesus had said this unto his disciples, he said unto them: "Now, therefore, let him whom his spirit stirreth, come forward and speak the solution of the tenth repentance of Pistis Sophia."

[¶1] Peter answered and said: "O Lord, concerning this thy light-power prophesied aforetime through David in the one-hundred-and-nineteenth Psalm; saying:

[¶2] "'1. I cried unto thee, O Lord, in my oppression, and thou hearkenest unto me.

[¶3] "'2. O Lord, save my soul from unjust lips and from crafty tongues.

[¶4] "'3. What will be given unto thee or what will be added unto thee with a crafty tongue?

[¶5] "'4. The arrows of the strong [one] are made sharp with the coal of the desert.

[¶6] "'5. Woe unto me, that my dwelling is far off, and I dwelt in the tents of Kedar.

[¶7] "'6. My soul hath dwelt in many regions as a guest.

[¶8] "'7. I was peaceful with them who hate peace; if I spake unto them, they fought against me without a cause.'

[¶9] "This is now, therefore, O Lord, the solution of the tenth repentance of Pistis Sophia, which she hath uttered when the material emanations of Self-willed oppressed her, they and his lion-faced power, and when they oppressed her exceedingly."

[¶10] Jesus said unto him: "Well said, Peter, and finely. This is the solution of the tenth repentance of Pistis Sophia."