When the Holy Spirit came, he revealed to us the way of truth and thaught us that there are two Natures, that of the Light and that of the Darkness, seperated from each other since the beginning.

The Kingdom of Light consisted of five Greatnesses, these are the Father of and his twelve Aeons and the Aeon of Aeons, the Living Air, the Land of Light, the Great Spirit blows in them and feeds them with its Light.

The Kingdom of Darkness, however, consisted in five Chambers, these are Smoke, Fire , Wind adn Water and Darkness, Their resolution crawls in them, moves them and spurs them on to make war with one another. Now as they were warring with eachother , they made bold to attack the Land of Light, considering themselves capable of conquering it. Yet they know not that what they thought will recoil upon their own heads.

 But there was a host of angelsin the Land of Light which possessed the power to issue forth and overcome the enemy of the Father, whom it pleased that through the Word that he would send, he would subdue the rebels who desired to raise themselves above what was more exalted than they.

 Like a shepherd who sees a lion approaching to destroy his sheepfold ,he uses guile, takes a lamb and sets it as a snare that he may catch it with it, for with a single lamb he saves his sheepfold. Afterwards he heals the lamb that has been wounded by the lion.

 In this way too the Father acted, who sent his stout Son. He produced out of himself his Maiden, furnished with the five Powers that she might fight against the five Abysses of the Dark.

 When the Watchman stood fast within the frontiers of Light he showed the powers of the Darkness his Maiden, who is his Soul. They became agitated in the Abyss and wanted to possess her, they opened their mouths and tried to swallow her.

 He seized the Maidens power and spread it over the Powers of the Darkness, like nets over fish, he rained her down on them. like purified clouds of water, she penetrated into them like a piercing lightning stroke. She crept inside their insides and bound them all without their ever knowing.

When the First Man had ended his struggle the Father sent forth his Second Son. He came and helped his brother out of the Abyss. He built this whole world up out of the mixture that had come into existance out of Light and Darkness.

 All the Powers of the Abyss he spread out to the ten Heavens and to eight Earths, he shut them up into this World and made it a dungeon for all the Powers of Darkness. This World is also, however, a place of purification of the soul which had been swallowed up in the Powers of Darkness.

 The Sun and the Moon where set up and fixed in the heights, to purify the Soul. They take the refined part daily upward to the heights but they destroy the deposit. They convey it up and down.

 This whole World stands firm for a Season, since there is a great Building being erected outside the World. At the Hour when the Architect shall complete it, the entire World shall be dissolved. It shall be set afire , that the fire may melt it away.

 All Life, the Remnants of Light in every Place he shall gather to himself and form of it a Statue (Eidolon/Image/likeness). Even the Resolution of Death also, the whole of Darkness, he shall gather in and make an image of itself along with the Archon.

 In a moment the Living Spirit shall come. []It will succour to the Light, but the Resolution of Death and the Darkness lock away in the chamber that was built for it that it may lie in chains forever.

 There is no other means save this means to bind the Enemy, for he shall not be received into the Light because he is a stranger to it, but he shall also not be left in his Land of darkness, lest he may wage a greater war than the first.

 A New Aeon shall be built in the place of this World, which shall be dissolved, so that in it the Powers of Light may reign since they have preformed and fulfilled the whole of the Father`s will. They have overthrown the hatefull one, they have defeated him forever.

This is the knowledge of Mani, let us worship him and bless him. Blessed is every man that may trust in him for he shall live with the Righteous.

 Honor and Victory to our Lord Mani, the Spirit of Truth, that comeeth from the Father and has revealed to us the Beginning, the Middle, and the End. Victory to the Soul of the Blessed Mary. Theona, Pshai, Jemnoute.