#8──《智者的啟示》21-25──THE “REVELATION OF THE MAGI” 21-25

THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE “REVELATION OF THE MAGI”

21. THE COMMISSIONING OF THE MAGI

 And when all these praises were spoken and we heard, we were afraid and trembled, ad we fell upon the ground like dead men. And the child, the offspring of light, stretched out his right hand mightily and put it upon us. And he comforted us and said to us: “Sons of my mysteries, do not be afraid. For all these things that you have seen and heard from the first day until today, and at which you are amazed: even those ones that [you hear] are not greater than I am, but for you they are mighty because you are clothed in weak flesh, yet for me they are very small things. For because of your frailty, you are not able to see or hear a single one of the wonderful things that belong to me with the Father who sent me. But since you have been found worthy to see and hear these things at this time – and behold, you are amazed as wonderful things are in your sight! – again you shall be deemed worthy by my love, which is with you forever, to see and hear these great things that cannot be spoken now. And neither watchers nor angels are able to speak of the, because these things are very great eve nor them. Therefore, rise and go in peace to your light-receiving land, because you have been deemed worthy to receive the perfect light of the heavenly majesty, and to come and wor[1]ship it with your gifts in joy. Behold, you have completed everything that you were commanded by your fathers, and you have also been deemed worthy to know and learn the ancient hidden mysteries, which were written for you from the first generations. Now, behold, you have seen the completion of your mysteries, and you have completed everything that you have been commanded for my love and for my witness. And again, you have been deemed worthy to be witnesses for me in the East with my disciples, who were chosen by me before the world came to be. And when I have completed the will of my Father regarding everything that he commanded me and have ascended to him in glory, I shall send to you some of my chosen ones who have been chosen by me for your land. And they shall speak and witness the truth with you that it may be your seal with one accord. Therefore, rise and go in peace. Again, I am with you in all visions and signs, just as I am with you from the first day. For just as I am in sight and in all forms here – and behold, you are amazed by all the visions and forms in which you see me – I am also with the Father of majesty whose will I am since the world began, and I am never separated from you, nor from the presence of the father, because I am a ray of his light, and I was sent to you to enlighten you. And behold, you are amazed as frail human beings – how much more when I have come to you in the majesty of my Father. As for you not being able to stand before me, neither (could) the angels and powers that are above you when I descended upon them, and they saw a vision of wonders and stood in fear and trembling. Even as it was fitting for them I appeared to them, and for you I appeared as you were able to see. For the Father of majesty does not have an image and form in this world, except I who am an epiphany from him, since I am his will, and his power, and his wisdom, since I am in my Father and my Father is in me. And I am – as it is fitting for God to be seen and for the world to know him, and again, as the sons of wisdom can receive and hear with love – the majesty of the Father who sent me. And now I have appeared to you in the form of humanity to fulfill everything is written about me. Because of the reasons and the foolishness of your ancient father Adam’s sin, which became your downfall to Sheol, death has had authority over you, and error has reigned in deceit over your generations and has supposed in its rashness that it was lord over you and that you had become its property forever. And again, I have made known to you, your fathers, and even to that ancient race of yours, your freedom, because you are from the race of light. And it was not in vain that you were created in the world, and heaven, and earth, and all the worlds came into being for your sake. And also, the Father of majesty, because of this love, sent me, and I clothed myself in your form, that by it I might bring to an end and destroy all those who afflict you and your captors. And I shall offer you to the Father, before him as a pure and perfect offering, since there are no blemishes of error on you. And I shall set you free with love, and with truth, with pure water, and the birth of the Holy Spirit, and you shall be for me by love brothers and believers, like infants in whom there are no blemishes of evil, from now until forever.

Therefore, joy, and praises, and thanksgiving he will cause to go up from you in the heavenly heights from you through me, since I am his will. And joy, and redemption, and the fellowship of the Spirit, and eternal life shall be given to you through me, since everything is in agreement without divi[1]sion. As from the beginning under the wings of the Father will it be, his power, and his wisdom, and his righteous will sanctifying and having mercy upon you forever and ever. And again, a voice from on high, and from every direction, and from inside the earth was heard, which answered and said, Amen! ‘The will of complete salvation, joy and peace to all the worlds!”

22.THE MAGI MEET MARY AND JOSEPH

 And when we received from him the commandments of salvation, we went forth from his presence in great joy, and much exultation, and with praise, our hearts being filled with great hope, to come to our land. And Joseph and Mary, honored and blessed people, went out with us, they who were deemed worthy and entrusted to be called by the name parents and to be upbringers for the offspring of the voice of virgin hearing and upbringers for the perfect will of complete mercy. Mary became the gate for the great light that entered the world in grace salvation for God giving birth to himself, who appeared in the bodily form of a human being. And there will be for her a name, and a memory, and a blessing forever and ever. And they lifted up their eyes and they saw the light that was born by his mercy in their house, which is with us and accompanies us. And they said to us: “We were not pleased by your coming to us. You have led away the light and the great hope of the whole world, and you have gone away [with him] and [have deprived us] of him. We were deemed worthy by great grace to be trusted to be attendants for it, for the upbringing of the body that appeared in our house, and now, behold, we have seen him going away with you.

23. THE MAGI’S REVELATION TO MARY

We said to her: “O woman blessed among women, O blessed Mary, who was deemed worthy by mercy to receive the conception of the Spirit by your pure obedience and to bring forth the child of salvation of the eternal word, you were trusted and deemed worthy to be called mother for him. And now, behold, your glorious child is inside of you, and behold, he awaits you in the house, even while he is not separated from us, as he said to us, because he is the great gift of salvation that by your child was given to all the worlds. And the mystery that was hidden from the beginning in the Father of all has been revealed to us in your child. And the treasure of salvation has appeared which had been kept for all generations. This great gift and light of salvation is not yours alone, but is (for) all the heavenly and lower worlds. And lift up your eyes and see that he is in the entire creation and enlightens it all, and it is full of his glorious mysteries. And now he has appeared in the world in a body, and the forms with him are seen in every land, because he has been sent by his majesty for the salvation and redemption of every human being.

24. MARY SPEAKS TO CHRIST

And when Joseph and Mary turned back, rejoicing about all these things that they had heard about the holy child, they went away to their house. And Mary entered and found the child of light laughing about and glorifying all his great and amazing mysteries, proclaimed in the entire world from [ancient times,] and behold, all of them are fulfilled in his appearance today. And he glorified and gave thanks to his Father who sent him for the redemption of his worlds. And Mary and Joseph worshiped him, and she said to him: “I have rejoiced that I have seen the treasury of salvation, and any light, and the holy child, who is the obedience of my ears. And O opener of my womb by [your] holy mercy, O Lord of my holy virginity, I have greatly rejoiced that I have found my great treasure in my house

where I gave birth and my great light, which exists forever. I had thought, O my beloved, that the Easterners were taking you, with your great love for them, in exchange for the gifts they offered to you from your own, since I saw your holy form going along with them.”

25. CHRIST BLESSES MARY

 And he answered in a sweet and humble voice and said to Mary: “Peace to you, my mother and upbringer, since you were deemed worthy to be blessed among women, since you were deemed worthy for the fruit of the voice of salvation. Since you accepted and conceived with love in your mind and with faith without doubt, you shall receive the reward of your service and shall have blessing and remembrance in all (the) generations, and in the new world you shall receive a good reward.

And because of you, Eve and her offspring will have hope and salvation, since by your person you have made her pass beyond the spear that fenced in the Tree of Life. And by your person tranquility and peace have happened for all the worlds from now on and forever. Amen! For I, who appeared in your house, have come to fulfill the will of the Father who went me, and everyone who hears me and believes shall live. For behold, you have perfectly accomplished your own service without a flaw, for which you shall receive a good recompense. Therefore, I am turning to all my brethren who are in the entire world, that I may perfectly fulfill everything that the Father commanded me for my believers, so that they may bring forth the fruits of eternal salvation. And I shall also give to them all the promises of my Father, which through me are fulfilled, and are given, and are accomplished for my believers and everyone who believes in me.”

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