I AM Consciousness
The Soul’s Journey on planet earth?:
I AM Perfect Consciousness
I was sent forth from the power,
and I have come to those who reflect upon me,
and I have been found among those who seek after me.
Look upon me, you who reflect upon me,
and you hearers, hear me.
You who are waiting for me, take me to yourselves.
And do not banish me from your sight.
And do not make your voice hate me, nor your hearing.
Do not be ignorant of me anywhere or any time.
Be on your guard! Do not be ignorant of me.
For I am the first and the last.
I am the honored one and the scorned one.
I am the harlot and the holy one.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am the mother and the daughter.
I am the members of my mother.
I am the barren one and many are my sons.
I am she whose weddings are great,
and I have not taken a husband.
I am the one who bears and who does not bear.
I am the solace of my labor pains.
I am the bride and the bridegroom,
and it is my husband who begot me.
I am the mother of my father
and the sister of my husband
and he is my offspring.
I am the slave of him who prepared me.
I am the governess of my offspring.
But he is the one who begot me
before the time on a birthday.
And he is my offspring in (due) time,
and my power is from him.
I am the staff of his power in his youth,
and he is the rod of my old age.
And whatever he wills happens to me.
I am the silence that is incomprehensible
and the thought whose remembrance is frequent.
I am the voice whose sound is polyphonic
and the logos whose appearance is manifold.
I am the utterance of my name.
Why, you who hate me, do you love me,
and hate those who love me?
You who deny me, confess me,
and you who confess me, deny me.
You who speak the truth about me, lie about me,
and you who have lied about me, speak the truth about me.
You who know me, be ignorant of me,
and those who have not known me, let them know me.
For I am knowledge and ignorance.
I am shame and boldness.
I am shameless; I am ashamed.
I am strength and I am fear.
I am war and peace.
Give heed to me.
I am the disgraced and the exalted one.
Give heed to my poverty and my wealth.
Do not be arrogant to me
when I am cast out upon the earth,
and you will find me in those that are to come.
And do not look upon me on the dung-heap
nor go and leave me discarded,
And you will find me in the kingdoms.
And do not look upon me
lying cast among the disgraced
and in the least places, nor laugh at me.
And do not cast me out among those
who are coldheartedly slain.
But I, I am merciful and I am merciless.
Be on your guard!
Do not hate my obedience
and do not love my self-control.
In my weakness, do not forsake me,
and do not be afraid of my power.
For why do you despise my fear
and curse my pride?
I am she who exists in all fears
and boldness in trembling.
I am she who is weak,
and I am well in a pleasant place.
I am foolish and I am wise.
Why have you hated me in your counsels?
For I shall be silent among those who are silent,
and I shall appear and speak,
Why then have you hated me, you Greeks?
Because I am a barbarian among the barbarians?
For I am the wisdom of the Greeks
and the gnosis of the barbarians.
I am the judgment of the Greeks and the barbarians.
I am the one whose image is great in Egypt
and the one who has no image among the barbarians.
I am the one who has been hated everywhere
and who has been loved everywhere.
I am the one whom they call Life,
and you have called Death.
I am the one whom they call Law,
and you have called Lawlessness.
I am the one whom you have pursued,
and I am the one whom you have seized.
I am the one whom you have scattered,
and you have gathered me together.
I am the one for whom you have been ashamed,
and you have been shameless to me.
I am she who does not observe festivals,
and I am she whose festivals are many.
I, I am godless,
and I am the one whose God is great.
I am the one whom you have reflected upon,
and you have scorned me.
I am unlearned, but they do learn from me.
I am the one whom you have despised,
and upon whom you reflect.
I am the one whom you have hidden from,
and you appear before me.
But whenever you hide yourselves,
I myself will appear.
For whenever you appear,
I myself will hide from you….
And take me to yourselves from places
that are disgraced and in ruin,
and rob from those which are good even though in disgrace.
Out of shame, take me to yourselves shamelessly;
and out of shamelessness and shame,
rebuke my members in yourselves.
And come to me, you who know me
and you who know my members,
and establish the great ones
among the small first creatures.
Come forward to childhood,
and do not despise it
because it is small and it is little.
And do not turn away the greatness
in some parts of the smallness,
for it is from greatness that smallness is recognized.
Why do you curse me and honor me?
You have wounded and you have had mercy.
Do not separate me
from the 1st ones whom you have known.
Do not cast anyone out nor turn anyone away
I know the first ones and those after them know me.
But I AM perfect consciousness
I am the gnosis of my research,
and the finding of those who search for me,
and the command of those who ask of me,
and the power of the powers in my gnosis of the angels,
who have been sent by my word (logos),
and of gods among gods by my counsel,
and of spirits of every man who exists with me,
and of women who dwell within me.
I am the one who is honored, and who is praised,
and who is despised scornfully.
I am peace, and war has come because of me.
And I am an alien and a citizen.
I am the substance and the one who has no substance.
Those who have no bonding with me are ignorant of me, and
those who are in my substance are the ones who know me.
Those who are close to me have been ignorant of me,
and those who are far away from me have known me.
On the day that I am close to you,
you are far away from me,
and on the day that I am far away from you,
I am close to you.
I am the control and the uncontrollable.
I am the union and the dissolution.
I am the staying and I am the going
I am the one below, and they come up to me.
I am the judgment and the acquittal.
I, I am sinless, and the root of sin derives from me.
In my appearance I am lust,
and within me exists self-control.
I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone
and the speech which cannot be grasped.
I am a mute who does not speak,
and great is my multitude of words.
Hear me in gentleness, and learn of me in harshness.
I am she who cries out,
and I am cast forth upon the face of the earth.
I prepare the bread and my consciousness.
I am the gnosis of my name.
I am the one who cries out, and who listens.
I am the one who is called Truth and Iniquity.
You honor me and you whisper against me.
You who are defeated, judge them
before they pass judgment against you,
because the judge and partiality exist in you.
If you are condemned by them, who will acquit you?
Or, if you are acquitted by them,
who will be able to detain you?
For what is inside of you is also outside of you,
and the one who fashions you on the outside
is the one who shaped the inside of you.
And what you see outside of you,
you see inside of you;
it is visible and it is your garment.
Hear me, you hearers
and learn of my words, you who know me.
I am the hearing that is attainable to everyone;
I am the speech that cannot be grasped.
I am the name of the sound
and the sound of my name.
I am the meaning of the text
And I will speak his name.
Look then at his words
and all the writings which have been completed.
Give heed then, you hearers,
and you also, angels and those who have been sent,
and you spirits who have arisen from the dead.
For I am the one who alone exists,
and I have no one who will judge me.
For many are the attractive forms
that exist in numerous sins:
and unrestrained acts,
and disgraceful passions,
and fleeting pleasures
which (men) embrace until they become sober,
and go up to their resting place
And there they will find me,
and they will live, and never die again.
(The above text is from the 4th century Gnostic Scriptures)
