LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 403
BLESSINGS ON YOU
"Blessings on you who understand beforehand temptations and flee from
things that are alien.
"Blessings on you who are mocked and are not respected because of your
master's love for you.
"Blessings on you who weep and are oppressed by those who have no hope,
for you will be released from all bondage.
"Watch and pray that you may not come to be in the flesh, but that
you may leave the bondage of the bitterness of this life. And when you pray,
you will find rest, for you have left pain and reproach behind. When you
leave the pains and the passions of the body, you will receive rest from the
good one. You will reign with the king, you united with him and he with you,
from now on and forever. Amen."^26
- This concluding paragraph is similar in wording to Gospel of Thomas 2.