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title: "Pistis Sophia"
author: "Anonymous (Gnostic)"
translator: "G. R. S. Mead"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Hermetica & Gnostics"
section: 75 of 132
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/75/
cite: "Anonymous (Gnostic), tr. G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia, section 75. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/75/"
---

# 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.

## 75. Second Book · Chapter 92

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/75/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pistis-sophia-mead/75/#p-N

[¶0] It came to pass then, when Jesus had finished saying these words unto his disciples, that they rejoiced in great joy and exulted when they heard Jesus say these words.

[¶1] And Jesus continued again in the discourse and said unto them: "Hearken, therefore, now still further, O my disciples, so that I discourse with you concerning the whole gnosis of the mystery of the Ineffable.

[¶2] "That mystery of the Ineffable knoweth why unmercifulness hath arisen and why mercifulness hath arisen.

[¶3] "And that mystery knoweth why ruin hath arisen and why everlasting eternity hath arisen.

[¶4] "And that mystery knoweth why the reptiles have arisen and why they will be destroyed.

[¶5] "And that mystery knoweth why the wild beasts have arisen and why they will be destroyed.

[¶6] "And that mystery knoweth why the cattle have arisen and why the birds have arisen.

[¶7] "And that mystery knoweth why the mountains have arisen and why the precious stones therein have arisen.

[¶8] "And that mystery knoweth why the matter of gold hath arisen and why the matter of silver hath arisen.

[¶9] "And that mystery knoweth why the matter of copper hath arisen and why the matter of iron and of stone hath arisen.

[¶10] "And that mystery knoweth why the matter of lead hath arisen.

[¶11] "And that mystery knoweth why the matter of glass hath arisen and why the matter of wax hath arisen.

[¶12] "And that mystery knoweth why herbs, that is the vegetables, have arisen and why all matters have arisen.

[¶13] "And the mystery knoweth why the waters of the earth and all things in them have arisen and why also the earth hath arisen.

[¶14] "And that mystery knoweth why the seas and the waters have arisen and why the wild beasts in the seas have arisen.

[¶15] "And that mystery knoweth why the matter of the world hath arisen and why it [the world] will be utterly destroyed."