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Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

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themselves exist within the Father who<br />

exists, from whom they come forth,<br />

and who established them unto himself<br />

from that which is not. (Th 19)<br />

25. Whoever lacks root also lacks fruit,<br />

but still he thinks to himself: ‘I have<br />

become, so I shall decease— for<br />

everything that (earlier) did not (yet)<br />

exist, (later) shall no (longer) exist’¹<br />

What therefore does the Father desire<br />

that such a person think about<br />

himself?: ‘I have been like the shadows<br />

and the phantoms <strong>of</strong> the night!’ When<br />

the dawn shines upon him, this person<br />

ascertains that the terror which had<br />

seized him was nothing. <strong>The</strong>y were<br />

thus unacquainted with the Father<br />

because they did not behold him. Hence<br />

there occurred terror and turmoil and<br />

weakness and doubt and division, with<br />

many deceptions and empty fictions at<br />

work thru these. (¹Victor Hugo, Les<br />

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