Editing Gnostic Text/The Secret Book of John (section)

==Wisdom’s Repentance==

Yaldabaoth’s mother started to move. She saw that her light had dimmed, and she knew that she lacked something. She had grown dark because she had brought forth something without her partner.

I, John, asked the Savior: “Lord, what do you mean when you say that she ‘moved?’”

He laughed and replied: Do not assume that it means that she moved “over the waters,” as Moses claimed. No, instead she saw the horror that had come into being and the theft of her power by her son, and she repented.

In her darkness, she had become forgetful and ignorant, and this, in turn, made her ashamed. To attempt to return to the Fullness would have been rash, but her state caused her to be agitated. And her agitation is what has been called “movement.”

The conceited ruler had taken his power from his mother. He lacked gnosis, for he thought that no one but his mother had existed before him. When he saw the host of angels he had created, he praised himself and lorded over them.

When his mother saw that this being of darkness was so twisted, she knew that it was because her partner had not been in harmony with her when she gave birth. Many tears flowed from her as she repented.

All the Fullness heard her prayer for repentance and spoke to the Invisible Spirit on her behalf, praising her to him. The Spirit agreed to their request and poured some of the Fullness over her. Her partner, rather than coming to her on his own, came to her through this outpouring of the Fullness, so that he could mend her deficiency. But because of the existence of her son, she still lacked something. Rather than being taken back into the Fullness, she was placed just outside of it in the ninth heaven, above the realm of her son, the eighth heaven, until she acquired what she was still missing.