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              THE (FIRST) APOCALYPSE OF YA’AQOV

It is the Master who spoke with me:

“See now the completion of my redemption. I have given you a sign of these things, Ya’aqov, my brother. For not without reason have I called you my brother (even though you are not my brother naturally) and I am not ignorant concerning you; so that when I give you a sign, know and hear!

“Nothing existed except Yahweh (Him-who-is). He is unnamable and beyond words. I too am unnamable, from Yahweh, just as I have been given a number of names - two from Yahweh.  And I AM before you.  Since you have inquired about the female gender; femaleness was present in the beginning but not preeminent.  Yet it prepared for itself powers and elohim. But it did not yet exist when I came forth, since I am an image of Yahweh. But I have brought forth his image so that the sons of Yahweh might know what things are theirs and what things are alien. Behold, I will reveal all points of this mystery to you, for they will seize me the day after tomorrow. My redemption is near.”

Ya’aqov said, “Rabbi, you have said, ‘They will seize me.’ But what can I do?”  He said to me, “You will not fear, Ya’aqov.  They will seize you also. So leave Jerusalem, for she always serves the cup of bitterness to the sons of light. She is a dwelling place of myriads of archons, yet your redemption will be preserved from them. So that you may understand who and what kinds they are, you will come to know them well.  But remember – they are but twelve archons. They are not all powerful or even faithful to their own: for each of twelve archons cast himself upon other archons in his own hebdomad in order to swallow up.”

  Ya’aqov said, “Rabbi, are there then twelve ‘heavens’[1] and not seven as in the scriptures?” The Master said, “Ya’aqov, he who spoke concerning this scripture had a limited understanding. However, I will reveal to you what has come forth from him who is beyond number so as to grant a sign about their number. As for what has come forth from him who is beyond measure, I shall grant a sign concerning their measure.”

   Ya’aqov said, “Rabbi, behold then, I have received their number!  There are seventy-two measures!”  The Master said, “These are the seventy-two ‘heavens’, which are under their rule.  These are the powers of all their might; and they were established by them; and these are they who were distributed everywhere, existing under the authority of the twelve archons.  The inferior power among them brought forth for itself angels and unnumbered hosts.  Him-who-is, however, has been given authority over all hebdomads and heavens on account of the archons of Him-who-is, those who serve the great Echad, are innumerable.  You will not be able to count them now even if you try – until you cast away blind thought, this bond of flesh which encircles you.

“And then you will reach Him-who-is and you will no longer be Ya’aqov; rather you are the One-who-is.  And all those who are unnumbered will all have been named through you.”

Ya’aqov said, “Then, Rabbi, in what way shall I reach Him-who-is, since all these powers and these hosts are armed against me?”  He said to me, “These powers are not armed against you specifically, but against another.  It is against me that they are armed.  

“And they are armed with other powers.  But they are armed against me in judgment.  They did not give me that which was due to me or go through me, so it is for me to go through them.  

“In this place of torment and wretched agony, I shall endure.  The Great Power will stand with me, and though I could rebuke in his name, I will not. There shall be a silence and a hidden mystery within me.  Yet I am faint before their anger.” 

Ya’aqov said, “Rabbi, if they arm themselves against you then is there no blaming you for taking up the sword of your mouth against them.

     ‘With knowledge you have thus come forth:
     To reprimand forgetful ghosts.
     With memories you prove your worth
     And thus rebuke these wayward hosts.’

“But I was concerned because of you.

     ‘For you descended into ignorance,
     Yet ignorance has penetrated not or snared.
     For you descended into mindlessness and chance,
     And chance is mastered; recollections shared.

     You walked through mud; your garments were not soiled,
     Much less been buried deep within their aught;
     Thus hebdomads and heavens you have spoiled,
     Mysterious, unseen, as yet uncaught.’”

“And I was not like them, but I clothed myself with everything of theirs.

     ‘There is in me gross forgetfulness
      Of all devils’ ways and his affairs.
      Though what’s lost is but a trifle less:
      For I remember things which are not theirs.
      In me the loss of evil scenes and hours
      Sets free, when in their midst, alarming powers.’”

Ya’aqov said, “Rabbi, I have neither your knowledge nor your powers, yet I have not failed to succor the poor in their sufferings caused by the evil ones.  Still I have become afraid of them since they rule. For what will they do to me?  What will I be able to say? Or what word will I be able to declare so that I may escape them?”

The Master said, “Ya’aqov, I compliment your understanding and understand your fear.  If you continue to be distressed then be concerned for nothing else but your own personal redemption. For behold, I shall complete this journey of destiny on this earth as I have proclaimed from the skies.  And I shall reveal your redemption to you.”

Ya’aqov said, “Rabbi, how, after all these things, will you appear to us again? After they seize you, and you complete this journey of destiny, you will go up to Yahweh (Him-who-is).”

The Master said, “Ya’aqov, after these are completed I shall reveal everything to you, and not for your sake only but for the sake of unbelieving men, so that faith may come to be in them also; for a vast multitude will come to faith and they will increase in days, works and knowledge.  And after this I shall appear as a reproof to the archons.  And I will reveal to them that the man of faith cannot be seized. If they seize him, he will overpower each of them.  But now I will leave. Remember the things I have spoken and let them go before you.”

Ya’aqov said, “Master, I will hasten as you have said.”

The Master bid him farewell in order to fulfill what was expected.

When Ya’aqov learned of his sufferings and was much distressed, they awaited the sign of his coming. And he returned after several days.  And Ya’aqov was walking upon the hill called “Golgotha” with his disciples who listened closely to him, for they had been greatly distressed.  And he was the Paraclete for them all, saying, “This is the hill of death where the Just One came to life a second time.  It is cursed with a curse!”  With this, the crowd of disciples, being in torment, dispersed.  But Ya’aqov remained in that cursed place and took to his knees in prayer and fasting for long hours, as was his custom.

And thus the Master appeared to him. Then Ya’aqov ceased his praying and embraced the Master. He kissed him, saying, “Rabbi, I have found you! I have heard of your sufferings which you endured, and I have been much distressed.  My deep compassion you already know.  So in reflecting, I was wishing that I would not see this people in this place. They must be judged for what they have done, so contrary to what was expected.”

The Master said, “Ya’aqov, do not be concerned for me or for this people. I am he who was within me. Never have I suffered in any way, nor have I been distressed. And these people have done me no harm.  But they have come to be as a type of the archons, and what was destroyed here deserved to be destroyed by them.  But now that the archons have been deceived by the destructive actions of the people, and since I am free of the imposter, the archons are now maliciously angry at you, my brother, because you are now the pillar upon which the world balances. 

I have been the Just One and you have been his slave.  But now, your name will be Ya’aqov Hazaddiq – Jacob the Just.

You see how you became aware when you saw me?  You even stopped this prayer.  Now that you are just, the Man of Elohim, you recognize me so to embrace and kiss me.  Amein.  I say to you that you have stirred up great anger and wrath against yourself.  Yet you were not afraid and you embraced me.  This all happened so that all these others might come to be.”

Ya’aqov was meek and wept. And he was very distressed. They sat on a rock.  The Master said to him, “Ya’aqov, you will surely undergo sufferings. But never be sad; it is the flesh that is weak.  Flesh receives what has been ordained for it.  But as for you, never allow yourself to become timid before the archons or even afraid on account of the flesh.” 

Then the Master was silent. 

When Ya’aqov absorbed these words, he wiped away the tears of his eyes, for his eyes were very red. 

The Master again spoke to him, “Ya’aqov, shema!  I will show you your rescue beforehand.

“Before you are seized to undergo such sufferings, a gang will arm against to kidnap you.  In particular, three of them will seize you – they sit as toll collectors.  Not only do they steal toll, but soul.

“When you come into their power, their guard will call to you, ‘Who are you and where are you from?'  You are to reply to him, ‘I am a son, and I am from the Father.’

“He will call to you, ‘What sort of son are you and to what father do you belong?’  You are to say to him, 'I am from the Pre-existent Father, and a son in the Pre-existent One.’

“When he calls to you, ‘And what do you think you have to do with us?’ you are to say to him, ‘I exist that I might expose aliens and men.’

“When he then questions you, ‘Are men – are we – such aliens?’ you are to say to him, ‘Those I expose are not entirely alien, but they are born of the alien Achamoth[2], a fallen woman; for she produced them as she led her race down from the Pre-existent One.  So these beings are not alien to us since they are of us, on account of their mistress being from the Pre-existent One.’

“‘Yet they are also alien because the Pre-existent One did not know her when she produced them.’[3]

“When he also says to you, ‘Where will you go?’ you are to say to him, ‘From the place I have come, there will I return.’  And if you say these words, you will escape their attacks.

“When you meet these three kidnappers who steal away souls in that place, you will be a vessel of authority – and much more that just a vessel.  You shall be the Just One for whom the world came to be.  So you will be able to discern her tender root. 

“As the Just One, you will be clear-minded when you meet her deadly emissaries.  You will call upon my and I will call upon the imperishable knowledge, the Sophia, who is in the Father and is the ‘mother’ of Achamoth.”

“Ya’aqov, Achamoth had no father or male partner; she is female from female.  She begat without a male since she was alone and ignorant as to what came to be through her mother.  She thought she existed alone as an orphan.  But I will cry out to her mother Wisdom. When I cry out, these kidnappers will fall into confusion.  They will blame their root and the race of their mother.  But you will ascend to He-who-is your root and race – the Pre-existent Father.

 “These twelve are an imitation of twelve disciples and twelve in pairs, the apostles of Achamoth, whose name is often incorrectly translated as ‘Sophia[4].’   On the contrary, I myself am the imperishable Sophia through whom you will be redeemed, and through whom come-to-be all the sons of Him-who-is.  These imitations have known this already and hidden it within themselves. 

“But you are to hide what I tell you within you and keep silence.  Reveal them only to Addai.[5]  Immediately after you leave out, war will be waged with this land.  So weep for him who dwells in Jerusalem.[6]  But let Addai take these things to heart.  In the tenth year let Addai sit and write them all down. And when he writes them down, you all are to give these letters to Matyah for he has the skill of letters to such a degree that he is called Levi (i.e. a Levite). Then he is to bring this word, including that which I said earlier to a certain woman in Jerusalem; for he begets two sons through her. These sons are to inherit these words and through them the understanding of him whom He-Who-Is exalts.  And they are to receive through him a measure of his intelligence.

“Now, the younger of the two is the greater. And may these things remain hidden in him until he comes to the age of seventeen years; then all spoken of will begin through him.   Crowds will pursue him relentlessly, even though he is surrounded by his companions.  He will be proclaimed through them for his works of knowledge, and they too will begin to proclaim this word. But others will become the ‘seed of falsehood, slaying his children among the smooth stones of the valleys.’[7]”

Ya’aqov said, “I am full up with these hidden things; yea, they are a burden upon my spirit. And yet I ask you: who are the seven women who have been your disciples? Indeed, all women bless you. I am amazed how weak vessels have become strong by the perception of what is within them.”

The Master said, “You know the seven well: a spirit of Elohim, a spirit of wisdom, a spirit of understanding, a spirit of counsel, a spirit of strength, a spirit of knowledge and the spirit of their fear[8] – all of them – these women are as the seven Archons[9] of our descent.  When we passed through the breath of the archon Adonaios[10]; we recognized him from when we previously came forth. He did not realize at first that I came from him, but soon remembered that I am his son. Then he was gracious to me as a father would be gracious to his son.

But before I appeared here, Adonaios cast these Archons among this people.  And from the third house of the sky the prophets proclaimed their fall.  ‘How did you come to fall from the heavens, Daystar, son of Dawn?  Your pride has been flung down to Sheol with the music of your lyres.’”[11]

Ya’aqov [said], “Rabbi, I do not understand how you came with these women all together as one, and why your favor rests in them especially rather than in us men of Elohim.”  

The Master said, “Ya’aqov, praise will be yours while you walk upon the earth.  They will say the words, ‘We shall not fall as long as Ya’aqov the Just stands upon the ground.’  You do need to be concerned for these women.  So you must immediately cast away from you the cup of bitterness.  While you are concerned over friends, lawless enemies, some in high places set themselves against you. For you are beginning to understand their origins from beginning to end.  Cast away from yourself all lawlessness.  Avoid them lest they envy you. When you speak these words of this oracle, especially encourage these four: Shalome, Maryam, Martyah and Arsinoe.  They will be pillars for the pillar; foundations for the foundation.

[since he takes some [.. .]to me he is [...] burnt offerings and [...]. But I [...] not in this way; but [...] first-fruits of the [...] upward  [...] so that the power [of God might] appear.]

"The perishable has ascended to imperishability as the female element has attained to this male element.”

Ya’aqov said, “Rabbi, into these three nets, then, has their womanhood been cast: they have been reviled, persecuted and betrayed by their own.

[Behold (...] everything [...] from anyone [...]. For you have received [...] of knowledge. [And ...] that what is the [...] go [...] you will [find ...]. ]

But I shall go forth and reveal that these women believed in you so that they may be satisfied in their affirmation and salvation so that this revelation may come to pass.”  And he went immediately and rebuked the twelve, and cast out of them the satisfaction they had in their incomplete way of knowledge

[ [...]. And the majority of them [...] when they saw, the messenger took in [...]. The others [...] said, "[...] him from this earth. ]

For he is not worthy of life."[12]

These, then, were afraid. They arose, saying, "We have no part in this blood, for a just man will perish through injustice."  Ya’aqov departed so that when we look for him we shall not find him.

THE (SECOND) APOCALYPSE OF YA’AQOV

This is an utterance that Ya’aqov haZadiq (James the Just) spoke in Jerusalem that Mareim, one of the priests, wrote down.  He told it to Theuda the brother of haZadiq, since he was his relative. 

Mareim the Priest said: “Hurry and bring Miryam, your wife and your close relatives so that they may hear of this, that they may inquire of Theuda; he will understand it all and explain it to you.  Ya’aqov haZadiq always spoke while the multitude was seated. But now he entered and did not sit down in a certain place as was his custom.  This time he sat above the fifth flight of steps, the highly esteemed place while all our people listened intently to the words he said.”

You all know me.  I received my revelation from the Fulfillment[1] of Imperishability.  I was first summoned by the great one who obeyed Yahweh: The one who passed through the heavens into the world; who stripped himself and went about naked; who was seen in a perishable body – though he was about to be brought up into imperishability.

This Present Master appeared as a son who seeks, and as a brother who was sought. He will return to the One who ‘begot’ him, for in him he is united and freed, even as he came forth to unite those who found him.  Now again I am rich in knowledge, having gained unique insight from he who comes from above about that which is above.

I am the vessel of him I knew, the container for what was revealed to me and hidden from everyone else; that which will be revealed through him at the appropriate time and place.

Such things I see have already been proclaimed through these sayings: that he will be judged with the unjust, and he who lived without blasphemy died by blasphemy.  He who was cast out of temporal life was cast into life imperishable.

What I tell you now in the flesh came forth from he who was flesh; but the knowledge of spiritual things must come from spirit.  The flesh told me,

(That is, Yahshua told me) “Though I am surely dying, it is in the midst of life that I shall be found.  I entered this age in order that they might judge my works.  I shall again come forth in another age to judge their works.  I do not blame slaves; I hurry to free them; I want to take them above the one (him) who wills to rule over them. If they are helped in this way, slaves will begin to rule over themselves.

“I am the secret brother who prayed to the Father until the Father decided to usher in the rule of imperishability for the first begotten son - then for all the brethren.

     “I am the first begotten son who will destroy the dominion of them all.

     I am the beloved.

     I am the Just One.[2]

     I am the son of the Father.

     I speak even as I heard.

     I order even as I received the order.

     I show you even as I have been shown.

“Behold, I speak in order that I may come forth. Pay attention to me so that you might see me!

“If I have come into being then who am I?  I did not come as I am, nor would I have appeared as I am. For I once existed for a brief period of time but now I live forever.”

(Ya’aqov again:) Once while I was meditating, that one who hated and persecuted you opened the gate and came in to me.[3]  He said to me, “Hail, my brother; my brother, hail!”  As I lifted up my eyes to stare at him and my mother said to me, “Do not be frightened, my son, of him calling you ‘my brother’; for you were both filled up with this same milk. Because of this he calls me ‘my mother.’  He is not a stranger to us.  He is your brother.” 

Then he said to me these words,

“I have a great many other lost brothers.[4]  But I will find them all and they will come forth.  Yet I am the stranger; and they have no knowledge or thought of me, for they know me only in this flesh.  But it was fitting that others might come to know me through you.

“You are the one to whom I say: Hear and understand – for the multitude, when they hear, will be slow-witted.  But you (on the other hand) will be able to understand as well as I am able to explain to you.

“Your father is not my father. But my father has become a father to you.

“This virgin about whom you hear – namely, the virgin [...].

“For this Father’s words have been profitable for me, for I have listened to him; and what I tell you will likewise be profitable to you. Your Father, whom you see as being rich, will grant that you inherit all these ones that you see.

“So profitable will be these words that I proclaim to you that you simply must open your ears to hear and understand; then walk accordingly!

“It is because of you[5] that they pass by, made active by that one who is glorious. Others will covet this glorious inheritance and, if they want, will cause a disturbance in order to seize possession.

“For this knowledge is coveted by the inferior creator[6] and the civilization he began and finished not, yet it is not even for those who are descending, sent forth by him to create this present appearance of reality.

“Yet after this is made known, when the inferior creator is ashamed, he shall be disturbed that his labor, which is far off from the aeons[7] and is, in fact, nothing.  And his inheritance, which he boasted to be great, will in actual appearance be small.  His gifts are not blessings.  His promises are but evil schemes. For you are not an instrument of his compassion, but it is through you that he does violence. He wants to do unjustly unto us, and will exercise dominion for the time allowed him.

“But understand and know the Father who has compassion.  He has not bestowed (upon the son) an inheritance that is limited, nor does the son have a limited number of days, but it is as eternal day for Him.   […]

“For in fact, we cannot say the son has come from the fallen ones just because he is despised. Instead, he boasts in it so that he may not be corrected.  Because of this he is superior to others who are below, those who you looked down on.  After he imprisoned those belonging to the Father, he seized them and molded them to resemble himself.  And it is with him that they now exist.

“I saw from the height that those events happened, and I have explained how they happened.  These fallen were acquainted with me when they were in another form, and, while I was watching them, they came to know me as I am, through those whom I know.

“Now before certain events happen they will make a covenant to make an end of you . . ..

“I know how they attempted to descend upon this place so that he might approach the little children, yet I want to reveal myself through you and the Spirit of Power, so that the Father might reveal which of the little children belong to you.

“Those who seek to walk in the way that is before the gate and wish then to enter may open the good gate through you.  And as they follow you they may enter and you may escort them inside and give a reward to each one who is ready for it.

     “For you are not the redeemer

     nor a helper of strangers.

     You are an illuminator and a redeemer of those who are mine,

     and now of those who are yours.

     You shall reveal me to them;

     you shall bring good among them all.

     You they will admire because of every powerful work.

     You are he whom the heavens bless.

     You he shall envy, he who calls himself your superior.[8]

     “I am the Gate of Entrance for the ones you instructed in these ways.

     For your sake they will be told all and will come to repose.

     For your sake they will reign and will become kings.

     For your sake they will have pity on whomever they pity.

     For just as you are first having clothed yourself,

        you are also the first who will strip[9] himself,

        and you shall become as you were before you were stripped.”

And he kissed my mouth. He took hold of me, saying, “My beloved!  Behold, I shall reveal to you those things that neither the heavens nor their archons[10] have known. Behold, I shall reveal to you those things that he did not know, he who boasted that ‘there is no other except me.’

“Am I not alive? Because I am a father, do I not have power to do anything?  Behold, I shall reveal to you everything, my beloved.   Understand and know what I reveal so that you may come forth just as I am.  Behold, I will show you the Hidden One. Now stretch out your hand.  Take hold of me.”

So I stretched out my hands and I did not find him as I thought. But afterward I heard him saying,

“Understand and take hold of me.”

Then I understood, and I was afraid.  And I was exceedingly joyful.

Therefore, I tell you: judges, you have been judged.  You did not spare, but you were spared. Be sober and hear what you cared not to know.

He was that one whom the creator of the heaven and the earth,
   and dwelled in it, did not see.
He was this one who is the life.
He was the light.
He was that one who will come to be. 
And again he shall provide an end for what has begun
  and a beginning for what is about to be ended.
He was the Holy Spirit and the Invisible One who did not fall upon the earth.
He was the virgin and controls what he wants happen to him.
I saw he was naked, and there was no garment clothing him.
That which he wills happens to him [...].

So you who hear me, abandon this difficult, erratic way and walk in accordance with the One who desires you become free!  Walk with me and pass above every dominion.  For he will not judge you for what you did in the past, but will have mercy on you. For it is not you that did them, but your Master within.[11]  He will not be wrathful, but a kind Father.

But you have judged yourselves, and because of this you will remain in their fetters. You have oppressed yourselves, and you will repent, but you will not profit at all.  See him who speaks – and seek him who is silent.  Know the One who came to this place and understand him who went forth from it.  I am the Just One (haZadiq) but I do not judge.  I am not a master, then, but I am a helper.

For He was cast out before he stretched out his hand to aquit.

I am silent, yet he allows me to hear.  So play your trumpets, your flutes and your harps in this house.   The Master has taken you captive from the rulers who closed your ears so that your ears may not hear the sound of my word.  Yet you will heed in your hearts, and you will call me the Just One.  

Therefore, I am telling you: I gave you your house, which you say that Elohim has made – this house through which he promised you an inheritance.  Yet this house I shall doom to destruction and the derision of those who are in ignorance.  For behold, those who judge in deliberate ignorance will be judged in justice. 

(Here Mareim the priest again narrates:) On hearing all these words, the rulers and the crowd were disturbed for the rest of the day, but they demonstrated they had not been persuaded.  

So Ya’aqov arose and went forth speaking in this way henceforth.  And he entered again on that same day and spoke for a few hours. And I was with the priests and revealed nothing of our friendly relationship, since all of them were saying with one voice, “Come, let us stone the Just One.”  And they arose, saying, “Yes, let us kill this man, that he may be taken from our midst. For he will be of no use to us.”

And they found him standing (on the parapet) by the columns of the temple beside the mighty corner stone.  And they decided to throw him down from the height, and they cast him down. And they derided him and they spat upon him. They seized him and struck him as they dragged him upon the ground.  They stretched him out, and placed a stone on his bosom.  They all placed their feet on the stone, saying, “You have erred!”

Again they raised him up, since he was alive, and made him dig a hole. They made him stand in it.  After having covered him up to his waist, they stoned him in this manner.  And he stretched out his hands and said this prayer (not that prayer which traditions about him say):

  Elohi, Abbi –
     You who saved me from this dead hope,
     who made me alive through a mystery of what he wills,
      do not let these days of this world be prolonged for me,
      but the day of your [light ...] remains
      in [...] salvation.
      Deliver me from this sojourn!
      Do not let your grace be left behind in me,
        but may ' your grace become pure!
      Save me from an evil death!
      Bring me from a tomb alive,
        because your graceful love is alive in me
        to accomplish a work of fullness!
      Save me from sinful flesh,
        because I trusted in you with all my strength!
     Because you are the life of the life,
        save me from a humiliating enemy!
     Do not give me into the hand of a judge
        who is severe with sin!
     Forgive me all my debts of the days of my life!
     Because I am alive in you, your grace is alive in me.
     I have renounced everyone, but you I have confessed.
     Save me from evil affliction!
     Now is the time and the hour.
     O Holy Spirit, send my Salvation,
       the light of his countenance,
       the light of his face
       in the power of his righteousness.

After he spoke this way he fell silent.

And this is his utterance that I, the priest Mareim, wrote down.

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