278 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM
FIVE SACRAMENTS
The lord did everything through mystery:
baptism and a chrism and a eucharist
and a redemption and a bridal chamber.THINGS BELOW LIKE THINGS ABOVE
The lord said, "I came to make things below
like things above, and the outside like the inside.
I came to join them in one place."^44
He revealed who he is through types and images.
Those who say, "There is a heavenly person
and one even higher," are wrong.^45
Who is seen in heaven is the heavenly person,
who is called "the one below,"
and the one to whom the hidden belongs
is called "higher."
It is best to say "inner" and "outer" and "what is beyond the outer."
So the lord called destruction "the outer darkness."^46
There is nothing beyond.
He said, "My father who is in secret."
He said, "Go into the chamber and shut the door behind you,
and pray to your father who is in secret,"^47
the one who is innermost.
But what is within them all is the fullness.^48
Beyond it there is nothing inside.
This is the place they call "the uppermost."PLACES OF THE SPIRIT
Before Christ, some came from a realm
they could not reenter,- See Gospel of Thomas 22, on the inner and the outer.
- Here the text recommends the language of inner transcendence rather than that of heavenly
transcendence. - Matthew 8:12, 22:13, 25:30.
47.Matthew6:6. - Pleroma.