i am the incomprehensible
silence
and the memory that will not
be forgotten
i am the voice whose sound
is everywhere
and the speech that appears
in many forms.
i am the utterance of my own
name.
i am the hearing in
everyone's ears
i am the speech that cannot
be heard
i am the mute who is
speechless
great are the multitudes of
my words.
hear me in softness
and learn me in roughness.
i am she who cries out
and i am cast forth upon the
face of the earth
i prepare the breath and my
mind within.
i am known Truth.
i am the one whom you have
reflected upon
and the one you have scorned
i am unlearned but from me
all people learn
i am the one from whom you
have hidden
and the one to whom you
reveal yourself
yet wherever you hide i
appear
and wherever you wish to
reveal yourself
there i will vanish.
for i am the first and the
last
i am the honored one and the
scorned
i am the whore and the holy
one
i am the bride and the
bridegroom
and my husband is my father
i am the mother of my father
the sister of my husband
my husband is my child
my offspring are my own
birth
the source of my power
what happens is set sacred
give heed give heed give
heed
then you, hearers
and you also, angels
and those who have been sent
as new spirits
risen now from the dead.
i am the one who alone
exists.
there is no one to judge me
for though there is much
sweetness in passionate life,
in transient pleasure,
finally, finally sanity
comes
and people flee to their
place of rest
there they will find me
to live and never to die
again
Words from The Thunder.
Perfect Mind, Nag Hammadi
