298 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM
of the holy spirit.
Everyone is a slave of evil.
But when the seed is revealed, the perfect light will flow out on
everyone.
And all those who are in the light will receive the chrism.
Then the slaves will be free and the captives ransomed.
"Every plant that my heavenly father has not planted will be
uprooted."^89
Those who are separated will be joined and filled.
Everyone who enters the bridal chamber will kindle the light,
for it burns just as in marriages performed,
though they happen at night.
That fire burns only at night and is put out.
Yet the mysteries of this marriage are perfected
rather in the day and the light.
Neither that day nor its light ever sets.
If you become an attendant of the bridal chamber,
you will receive the light.
If you do not receive it while in those places,
you cannot receive it in the other place.
You who receive the light will not be seen nor detained.
And no one will be able to torment you
even while you live in the world.
And when you leave the world
you have already received the truth in the images.
The world has become the eternal realm,^90
because the eternal realm is fullness for you.
This is the way it is. It is revealed to you alone,
not hidden in the darkness and the night
but in a perfect day and a holy light.
- Matthew 15:13.
- Or "aeon."
