{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ps/ps147.htm","path":"chr/ps/ps147.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ps/ps147.htm","text":"Pistis Sophia, by G.R.S. Mead, [1921]\nThe mystic offering.And Jesus |375. said unto them: \"Bring me fire and vine branches.\" They brought them unto him. He laid out the offering, and set down two wine-vessels, one on the right and the other on the left of the offering. He disposed the offering before them, and set a cup of water before the wine-vessel on the right and set a cup of wine before the wine-vessel on the left, and laid loaves according to the number of the disciples in the middle between the cups and set a cup of water behind the loaves.\nJesus stood before the offering, set the disciples behind him, all clad with linen garments, and in their hands the cipher of the name of the father of the Treasury of the Light, and he made invocationThe invocation. thus, saying: \"Hear me, O Father, father of all fatherhood, boundless Light: ia\u014d iou\u014d ia\u014d a\u014di \u014dia psin\u014dther ther\u014dpsin \u014dpsither nephthoma\u014dth nephioma\u014dth marachachtha marmarachtha i\u0113ana menaman aman\u0113i (of heaven) israi am\u0113n am\u0113n soubaibai appaap am\u0113n am\u0113n deraarai (behind) am\u0113n am\u0113n sasarsartou am\u0113n am\u0113n koukiamin miai am\u0113n am\u0113n iai iai touap am\u0113n am\u0113n am\u0113n main mari mari\u0113 marei am\u0113n am\u0113n am\u0113n.\n\"Hear me, O Father, father of all fatherhood. I invoke you yourselves ye forgivers of sins, ye purifiers of iniquities. |376. Forgive the sins of the souls of these disciples who have followed me, and purify their iniquities and make them worthy to be reckoned with the kingdom of my father, the father of the Treasury of the Light, for they have followed me and have kept my commandments.\n\"Now, therefore, O Father, father of all fatherhood, let the forgivers of sins come, whose names are these: siphirepsnichieu zenei berimou sochabrich\u0113r euthari na nai (have mercy upon me) dieisbalm\u0113rich meunipos chirie entair mouthiour smour peuch\u0113r oouschous minionor isochobortha.\n\"Hear me, invoking you, forgive the sins of these souls and blot out their iniquities. Let them be worthy to be reckoned with the kingdom of my father, the father of the Treasury of the Light.\n\"I know thy great powers and invoke them: auer bebr\u014d athroni \u0113 oureph e \u014dne souphen knitousochre\u014dph mau\u014dnbi mneu\u014dr sou\u014dni ch\u014dchete\u014dph ch\u014dche ete\u014dph mem\u014dch an\u0113mph.\n\"Forgive [sing.] the sins of these souls, blot out their iniquities which they have knowingly and unknowingly committed, which they have committed in fornication and adultery unto this day; forgive them then and make them worthy to be reckoned with the kingdom of my father, so that they are worthy to receive of this offering, holy Father.\nIf thou then, Father, hast heard me and forgiven the sins of these souls |377. and blotted out their iniquities, and hast made them worthy to\nbe reckoned with thy kingdom, mayest thou give me a sign in this offering.\"\nAnd the sign which Jesus had said [? besought] happened.\nThe rite is consummated.Jesus said unto his disciples: \"Rejoice and exult, for your sins are forgiven and your iniquities blotted out, and ye are reckoned with the kingdom of my father.\"\nAnd when he said this, the disciples rejoiced in great joy.\nDirections as to the future use of the rite.Jesus said unto them: \"This is the manner and way and this is the mystery which ye are to perform for the men who have faith in you, in whom is no deceit and who hearken unto you in all good words. And their sins and their iniquities will be blotted out up to the day on which ye have performed for them this mystery. But hide this mystery and give it not unto all men, but unto him who shall do all the things which I have said unto you in my commandments.\n\"This then is the mystery in truth of the baptism for those whose sins are forgiven and whose iniquities are blotted out. This is the baptism of the first offering which showeth the way to the region of Truth and to the region of the Light.\"","title":"Pistis Sophia: A Fifth Book: Chapter 142","type":"page"}