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title: "Pistis Sophia"
author: "Anonymous (Gnostic)"
translator: "G. R. S. Mead"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hermetica & Gnostics"
section: 39 of 132
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/39/
cite: "Anonymous (Gnostic), tr. G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia, section 39. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/39/"
---

# 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.

## 39. First Book · Chapter 57

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/39/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/39/#p-N

[¶0] And Jesus continued again in the discourse and said unto his disciples: "It came to pass again thereafter that Pistis Sophia cried unto me, saying:

[¶1] "O Light of lights, I have transgressed in the twelve æons, and have descended from them; wherefor have I uttered the twelve repentances, [one] for each æon. Now, therefore, O Light of lights, forgive me my transgression, for it is exceedingly great, because I have abandoned the regions of the height and have come to dwell in the regions of the chaos.'

[¶2] "When then Pistis Sophia had said this, she continued again in the thirteenth repentance, saying:

[¶3] "'1. Hearken unto me singing praises unto thee, O Light of lights. Hearken unto me uttering the repentance for the thirteenth æon, the region out of which I have come down, in order that the thirteenth repentance of the thirteenth æon may be accomplished,--those [æons] which I have overstepped and out of which I have come down.

[¶4] "'2. Now, therefore, O Light of lights, hearken unto me singing praises unto thee in the thirteenth æon, my region out of which I have come down.

[¶5] "'3. Save me, O Light, in thy great mystery and forgive my transgression in thy forgiveness.

[¶6] "'4. And give unto me the baptism and forgive my sins and purify me from my transgression.

[¶7] "'5. And my transgression is the lion-faced power, which will never be hidden from thee; for because of it have I gone down.

[¶8] "'6. And I alone among the invisibles, in whose regions I was, have transgressed, and have gone down into the chaos. Moreover I have transgressed, that thy commandment may be accomplished.'

[¶9] "This then Pistis Sophia said. Now, therefore, let him whom his spirit urgeth to understand her words, come forward and proclaim her thought."

[¶10] Martha came forward and said: "My Lord, my spirit urgeth me to proclaim the solution of that which Pistis Sophia hath spoken; thy power hath prophesied aforetime concerning it through David in the fiftieth Psalm, saying thus:

[¶11] "'1. Be gracious unto me, O God, according to thy great grace; according to the fulness of thy mercy blot out my sin.

[¶12] "'2. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity.

[¶13] "'3. And may my sin be ever present to thee,

[¶14] "'4. That thou mayest be justified in thy words and prevail when thou judgest me.'

[¶15] "This is then the solution of the words which Pistis Sophia hath uttered."

[¶16] Jesus said unto her: "Well said, finely, Martha, blessed [one]."