Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

curtain was torn from the top to the
bottom, for it was appropriate for some
from below to go above. (Mk 15:38, Th 84)
85. Those who have been clothed in
the Perfect Light— the powers can
neither see them nor restrain them.
Yet one shall be clothed with light in
the Sacrament of the Mating. (Ph 24 26;
cp. Odes of St Solomon 21:2, ‘I took off darkness
and clothed myself with light.’)
86. If the female had not separated
from the male, she would not afterward
have died with the male. His separation
was the inception of death. (Gen 3:19)
Therefore the Christ came, so that he
might rectify to himself the separation
that had obtained from (the) beginning,
by his mating the two together. And by
his mating them together, he shall give
their lives to those who have died in
the separation. Yet the woman mates
with her husband in the bridal-
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