The embrace and the kiss
Charles W. Hedrick (composite) · Public domain / scholarly composite. Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.
1And he embraced me. He kissed me. He said to me, My beloved! Behold, I shall reveal to you those things which the heavens and their archons have not known.
2Behold, I have revealed to you, James, all the things from the Father, the unbegotten One, the unrevealed One, who is in the heights, glorified, and the One whom no eye has seen. Yet I declared to you my Father, since I came forth from him.
3Now do not desire to be jealous of me, my brother, but understand the things from him whom I declare. James, behold, I have revealed to you all these things. Lift up your eyes. Look up: behold the heaven, and the multitude that is in it.
4And I said to him, My Lord, can it be that they too — the ones whom I see in heaven who resemble flesh and blood — even they have come from one who has come forth?
5He said to me, Yes. Even they have come from the One who pre-existed. They are made from him, since he is the unfading Light. The flesh and blood that they are bearing is for a sign — that they have come into being through him.
6And he said to me, My beloved, I have given you a sign that I shall lay aside the body and the soul. And I shall come up. And I shall be on the right of the Father.