The Aeons’ Prayer Produces the Son

1. The fall that the aeons of the Father of the Totalities experienced happened only as if it were their own (experience), (planned by the Father) with care, beneficence, and great kindness.

2. [...] the Totality, to teach them about [the deficiency] by the one [from whom alone they] all received power to remove the deficiencies.

3. His own [order came] into being from [him] who hastened on high, and from what produced itself from him, and from the complete perfection.

4. The one who hastened on high became for the deficient one an intercessor together with the emanation of the aeons that had come into being in agreement with the things that exist.

5. When he prayed to them, because they were in unison they agreed joyfully and eagerly, and with harmonious agreement, to help the deficient one.

6. They assembled, beseeching the Father of beneficent intention that help would come from the Father above, to his glory, because there was no other way for the deficient one to become perfect except by the will of the Fullness of the Father, which he had moved to himself, revealing and bestowing [it] on the deficient one.

7. From the harmony that had come into being with a joyful inclination they produced the fruit as a begetting from the harmony, a unity the Totalities possessed, revealing the face of the Father, on whom the aeons thought while they glorified and prayed for their brother’s help with a request that the Father would join with them.

8. In this way, they eagerly and joyfully produced the fruit.

9. He then revealed the manifestation of the agreement of their mutual union, which is his beloved Son.

10. The Son in whom the Totalities are well pleased clothed them with himself as a garment, imparting perfection to the deficient one, and giving strength to the perfect ones.

11. Strictly speaking, (he is) called “Savior” and “Redeemer” and “the Well-Pleasing One” and “the Beloved,” “the Paraclete” and “the Christ” and “the Light for the Appointed Ones,” being congruent with the ones who had produced him, because he became the names of the places that had been granted to him.

12. What other name, though, can be ascribed to him except the Son?

13. As we said before, this is because he is the knowledge of the Father, whom he desired that they know.

14. The aeons generated both the face of the Father whom they glorify, as we wrote earlier, and their own (face), because the aeons who glorify generated [his] visage and their face.

15. They were made as his army, as that of a king, because the beings from the thought possess a powerful concord and a harmony blended together.

16. They were produced in a complex form, so the one to whom help would be given could behold those for whom he had interceded.

17. He beholds the one who bestowed it on him as well.

18. The fruit of the agreement with him that we earlier mentioned is subordinate to the power of the Totalities, because the Father was able to place the Totalities within him, the pre-existent ones and the ones that are, and the ones that will be.

19. He revealed those whom the Father had placed within him, not giving them, but entrusting them to him.

20. He carried out the universal plan of salvation with the authority granted him from the beginning and the power for the work.

21. In this way, he began to accomplish his revelation.

22. The one the Father dwells in and the one the Totalities dwell in [was] created before the one who is without sight.

23. He taught him about those who sought for their sight through the radiance of the perfect light.

24. He perfected him first in unspeakable joy.

25. He perfected him for his own sake as a perfect one, and he bestowed on him what is appropriate for each individual as well.

26. This is the quality of the first joy.