Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

could see. (¹Ph 125)
3. Wherefore confusion grew strong,
contriving its matter in emptiness and
unacquaintance with the truth,
preparing to substitute a potent and
alluring fabrication for truthfulness.
But this was no humiliation for him, the
Inconceivable Incomprehensible. For
the anxiety and the amnesia¹ and the
deceitful fabrication were nothing—
whereas the established truth is
immutable, imperturbable and of
unadornable beauty. Therefore despise
confusion! It has no roots and was in a
fog concerning the Father, preparing
labors and amnesia and fear in order
thereby to entice those of the transition
and take them captive. (Ph 68; ¹Leo Tolstoy,
Anna Karenina: ‘That universal solution which life
gives to all questions, even the most complex and
insolvable: one must live in the needs of the day—
that is, forget.’)
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