The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

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LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 217

You have come not to suffer
but to break your fetters.
Break free, and what has bound you will be broken.
Save yourselves so that part^6 may be saved.
The good father has sent you the savior
and has strengthened you.
Why are you waiting? Seek when you are sought.
When you are invited, listen, for the time is short.
Do not be led astray.
Great is the eternal realm of the eternal realms
of the living,
but great also is the punishment of the unconvinced.
Many fetters and punishers surround you.
Get away quickly before destruction overtakes you.
Look to the light, fly from the darkness.
Do not be led astray to destruction.


  1. That is, the soul or spiritual part of a person.

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