Sunday, June 15, 2008

The Good Fight & The Calling & The Receivers

Apocryphon of John (II, 1)
"... Those on whom the Spirit of life
will descend and (with whom) he will be with the power,
they will be saved and become perfect
and be worthy of the greatness and
be purified in that place from
all wickedness and the involvements in evil.
Then they have no other care than
the incorruption alone, to which they direct their attention
from here on, without anger or envy or jealousy
or desire and greed
of anything. They are not affected by
anything except the state of being in
the flesh alone, which they bear while looking expectantly
for the time when they will be met
by the receivers (of the body). Such
then are worthy of the imperishable,
eternal life and the calling. For they endure
everything and bear up under
everything, that they may finish
the good fight and inherit
eternal life."