The Prayer of the Apostle Paul from Nag Hammadi Codex I


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..your light, give me your [mercy,My] Redeemer, redeem me, for
[I am] yours; the one who has come forth from you. You are [my] Mind
; bring me forth! You are my treasure house: open for me!
You [are] my fullness; take me to you! You are my repose; give me
the Perfect Thing that cannot be grasped!
I invoke you, the one who is and who pre-existed in the name [which is] exalted above every name, through Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of Lords, the king of the aeons; give me your gifts, of which you do not repent, through the Son of Man, the Spirit, the Paraclete of [truth]. Give me authority [when I] ask you; give healing for my body when I ask you through the Evangelist, and redeem my eternal light soul and my spirit. And the First-born of the Pleroma of grace - reveal him to my mind!

Grant what no angel eye has seen and no archon ear has heard, and what has no entered into the human heart which came to be angelic and modeelled after the image of the psychic God when it was formed in the beginning, since I have faith and hope. And place upon me your beloved, elect, and blessed greatness, the First-born, the First-begotten, and the wonderful mystery of your house; [for] yours is the power [and] the glory and the praise and the greatness for ever and ever. Amen,

Prayer of the Apostle Paul,
In Peace.