The Tripartite Tractare, the longest document in the Nag Hammadi library, says that this experience is a privilege offered by the supreme deity: The Originator instructed those who searched for higher seeing by means of the luminosity of that Immaculate Light (87: 88.10). Revelation texts such the Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth (NHC VI, 6) give the unmistakable impression that initiates received knowledge directly from the divine light. In that text the hierophant, the veteran initiate who brings the initiant into the presence of the light, declares: Rejoice over this revelationl For already from the Pleroma [the Godhead] comes the power that is Light, flowing over us. For I see it! I see the indescribable depth (57.25-30; modified NHLE translation). Excerpts of all comparable passages in the Gnosric corpus would run to a halfdozen pages. -John Lash
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