The School of Life

[...] just like [...] into [...]. He possesses them [...] each [will be] deserving [...] accepting him, and [...] even though he hides himself, like a god, and allows himself to be imbricated in created entities, even annihilating them, because [he] spoke with the Church, [becoming] for it an instructor of deathlessness, and annihilating the proud [teacher] by [instructing] her to [die], and [this instructor produced] a school of [life], because [this instructor possesses] an alternative school. [He] instructed us in the [...] letters. He removed [us] from the letters of the world, those by which we were instructed concerning our death. His instruction, however, was this: “Call no one your father on earth. Your Father is One, who is in heaven. You are the light of the world, being my brothers and companions, who fulfill the will of the Father, because what does it profit you should you gain the world and lose your life? This is because when we dwelt in the darkness, we used to call many ‘father,’ because we were ignorant of the true Father. Further, this is the most serious of all sins [...].” [...] pleasure. We resemble [...] him, to [...] life [...] men, who [...] dwelling-[place]. [What], however, is [...]. [This] is [why] the living teacher [came]: He [ended] ignorance and the darkness [of sight]. He caused [our] mind to recall the good things [of the] Father and his generation, because he said: “[Spurn] the world, because it is not yours. Do [not think] the delights in it are valuable. Instead, they are [detrimental] and a punishment. By contrast, accept [instruction from the one who was] despised. [That is] what is valuable for life, [...], and accept the [shape and that] structure which exist in the [presence of the] Father. It is the Logos and the sublimity you knew before you had gone astray when you came to be in flesh of condemnation. I similarly made myself very small, so that by my humiliation I might return you to that lofty sublimity, from where you had fallen, when you were conveyed to this pit. Therefore, if you are faithful to me, it is I who will convey you upwards, by means of this shape visible to you. It is I who will bear you on my shoulders. Enter in through the rib from which you came, and hide yourself away from the beasts.⁠a The load you now bear [is] not yours. When you enter in [...].”