The ascent through the cloud
Marvin Meyer (Nag Hammadi Scriptures composite) · Public domain / scholarly composite. Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.
1[…] Then there came a great wind out of the cloud, and it took me up. And I was lifted up to the place where I had stood when I had begun to be revealed.
2I beheld a great light pouring forth, and it was alive, and the light filled all things. The light was the source of everything, and yet it had not come into being. It was unbegotten.
3[…] And I heard the voice of the great Father, the invisible Spirit, the one who is. He spoke from the light, saying, Allogenes, hear and behold. Hear, that you may know him who is, the one whom no eye has seen and no ear has heard.
4[Lines damaged.] He is silence; he is the Father of silence. He is rest; he is the Father of rest. He is the unmoved; he is the source of motion. He is the un-imaged; he is the source of every image. He is unknowable; from him comes every kind of knowledge.
5[…] And I worshipped him; and I gave him glory, saying, Holy, holy, holy are you, Father of the All. You are the one who is, the unbegotten one, the un-encompassed one. Holy is your name forever.
6[Several lines damaged. The text resumes:] When I had said this, I saw — for the cloud opened — the immortal generation, the holy seed of Seth, my forefather, standing in glory. And they greeted me, saying, Brother, you have come. You have not been lost.
7And there was joy among them. And the joy filled all the aeons, until the cloud closed again, and I came down from the mountain.