626 MANICHAEAN LITERATURE
and you can tell me the message.
Who are you for me to open
so you can tell me the message?
I am the son of the son
of the father. The son of the father has sent me
to you about the message.
Open, open up at once! Open the closed gates
so you can be given the message!
As the gates were about to open he was
already inside the gates
to tell him the message of the skies.
The first man found him at his side.
He was happy and said to him,
Tell me the message!
What is my father doing now?
Father of the lights beyond him?
Tell me my father's message.
What are the twelve aeons doing now
who were round the father when I left?
Tell me the message!
How are things with the living air, the breath
of life around the father?
Tell me the message! The great spirit
of the land of light, the cupbearer
of all the aeons? Tell me the message!
The land of light, the house of the father,
bridal chamber of all the aeons?
Tell me the message!
The walls that were dug in the earth
when I went away,
