A prophet is not accepted in the hometown.

A doctor does not heal those who know the doctor.

Whoever has something in hand will be given more

and whoever has nothing will be deprived

of the paltry things possessed.

I say, if you are whole, you will be filled with light,

but if divided, you will be filled with darkness.

Through water and fire this wide realm is purified,

and the visible cleaned by the visible,

and the hidden by the hidden,

but there are elements concealed in the visible.

There is water within water

and fire in the oil of chrism.

Blessings on the person who has labored

and found life.

Light and darkness, life and death, on the right and left,

these are children, they are inseparably together.

But the good are not good, the wicked not wicked,

life not life, death not death.

Each element fades to an original source.

But those who live above the world cannot fade.

They are eternal.

Faith receives, love gives.

No one receives without faith.

No one gives without love.

To receive, believe; to love, give.

If you give without love,

no one derives a thing from what is given

Whoever has not accepted the lord

is still a Jew.

Whoever has come to know the world

has discovered a carcass,

and whoever has discovered a carcass,

of that person the world is not worthy.

Judas said to Jesus, "What is the value

of human life?"

Jesus said,

"Why do you ponder these things? Adam

and his generation have lived their span

of life where he received his kingdom, and

with the longevity in keeping with his ruler."

Judas said to Jesus, "Does the human spirit

die?"

Jesus said, "This is why God told Michael

to give the people spirits only on loan

so that they might offer service, but the great one

ordered Gabriel to grant spirits to the great

generation, with no ruler commanding it

but their spirit and their soul. Therefore,

the other souls..."

Do not lie and do not do what you hate.

All things are disclosed before heaven.

There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed,

nothing covered that will remain undisclosed.

You who have found the world

and become wealthy,

renounce the world.

Should you who possess everything not know yourself?

If you do not know yourself,

you will not enjoy what you own.

But know yourself

and what you have enjoy.

Some say the holy spirit inseminated Mary.

They are wrong and don’t know what they are saying.

When did a woman ever get a woman pregnant?

Mary is a virgin and no powers dirtied her.

She is a great repugnance to the Jews

who are apostolic, who are the messengers.

No powers dirtied the virgin.

They dirtied themselves.

There is light within a person of light

and it shines on the whole world.

If he does not shine he is dark.

Be passersby.

One who knows all but lacks within

is utterly lacking.

Ignorance is the mother of all evil.

Ignorance will eventuate in death,

because those who come from ignorance

neither were nor are nor will be.

But those who are in the truth will be perfect

when all the truth is revealed.

For truth is like ignorance: while hidden it rests in itself,

but when revealed and recognized,

it is praised in that it is stronger than ignorance and error.

It gives freedom. The word said,

“If you know the truth, the truth will make you free.”

Ignorance is a slave,

knowledge is freedom.

If we know the truth, we shall find the fruits of the truth

within us.

If we join it, it will fulfill us.

Those who are enslaved against their will

can be free.

Those who are freed by favor of a master

but have sold themselves into slavery

can no longer be free.

Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.

Let the dead bury their dead:

but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

The Pharisees and the scholars have taken the keys of knowledge

and have hidden them.

They have not entered,

nor have they allowed those who want to enter

to go inside.

You should be shrewd as snakes and innocent as doves.

If a pearl is thrown into mud, it loses no value,

and if rubbed with balsam oil, it gains no value.

It always is precious in its owner’s eyes.

Wherever they are, the children of God

are precious in the eyes of the father.