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title: "Pistis Sophia"
author: "Anonymous (Gnostic)"
translator: "G. R. S. Mead"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hermetica & Gnostics"
section: 56 of 132
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/56/
cite: "Anonymous (Gnostic), tr. G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia, section 56. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/56/"
---

# 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.

## 56. Second Book · Chapter 73

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/56/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/56/#p-N

[¶0] And when Mary had said this, the First Mystery said unto her, "Well said, finely, Mary, blessed one."

[¶1] And he continued again in the discourse and said unto the disciples: "Sophia again continued in this song and said:

[¶2] "'1. The Light hath become my saviour.

[¶3] "'2. And it hath changed my darkness into light, and it has rent the chaos which surrounded me and girded me with light.'"

[¶4] It came to pass then, when the First Mystery had finished saying these words, that Martha came forward and said: "My Lord, thy power hath prophesied aforetime through David concerning these words:

[¶5] "'10. The Lord hath become my helper.

[¶6] "'11. He hath changed my lamentation into joy; he hath rent my mourning-robe and girded me with joy.'"

[¶7] And it came to pass when the First Mystery had heard Martha speak these words, that he said: "Well said, and finely, Martha."

[¶8] And the First Mystery continued again and said unto the disciples: "Pistis Sophia again continued in the song and said:

[¶9] "'1. My power, sing praises to the Light and forget not all the powers of the Light which it hath given unto thee.

[¶10] "'2. And the powers which are in thee, sing praises to the name of his holy mystery;

[¶11] "'3. Who forgiveth all thy transgression, who saveth thee from all the afflictions with which the emanations of Self-willed have constrained thee;

[¶12] "'4. Who hath saved thy light from the emanations of Self-willed which belong to destruction; who hath wreathed thee with light in his compassion, until he saved thee;

[¶13] "'5. Who hath filled thee with purified light; and thy beginning will renew itself as an invisible of the Height.'

[¶14] "With these words Pistis Sophia sang praises, because she was saved and remembered all things which I had done unto her."