The Three Steles of Seth
The Three Steles of Seth
The Three Steles of Seth
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translators.
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The revelation of Dositheos about the three steles of Seth, father of the
living and unshakable race. He remembered what he saw, understood,
and read, and gave it to the chosen, just as it was written there.
Often I have joined in glorifying with the powers, and I was considered
worthy by the immeasurable majesties.
The steles are as follows:
I am your son
and you are my mind, O my father.
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I have sown and produced,
but you have seen the majesties
and have stood endlessly.
We praise you,
maker of perfection,
donor of eternal realms.
Father god,
divine child,
maker of multiplicity,
in dividing all those who really are,
you revealed to them all a word.
Hear us first.
We are eternal.
We give thanks,
we praise always,
we shall glorify you.
We rejoice
we rejoice
we rejoice.
We saw
we saw
we saw what really preexists,
that it really is
and is the first eternal one.
You, unborn,
from you come the eternal ones
and eternal realms,
the all-perfect ones, who are established,
and the perfect beings.
Command!
If you command,
we have been saved.
We have none.
You are their existence,
you are their life,
you are their mind.
Asineus
Mephneus
Optaon
Elemaon, the great power
Emouniar
Nibareus
Kandephoros
Aphredon
Deiphaneus
you who are my Armedon
you generator of powers
Thalanatheus
Antitheus.
We cannot,
but we thank you,
we who are inferior.
As assigned, they ascend. After silence, they descend from the third.
They praise the second, and afterward the first. The way of ascent is the
way of descent.
So understand, as those who are alive, that you have succeeded. You
have taught yourselves about things infinite. Marvel at the truth within
them, and at the revelation.