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Chapter 2  
     
1.
 Jesus said unto us, You have received mercy and wisdom from the Son to the Father, so why then do you quarrel? Did I not say James was to follow in my stead? What then if you who have seen, and say you believe, yet do not follow?
  
2.
 Do you not, then, desire to be filled?
 
3.
 And your heart is drunken; do you not, then, desire to be sober?
 
4.
 Therefore, be ashamed! Henceforth, waking or sleeping, remember that you have seen the Son of Man, and spoken with him in person, and listened to him in person.
 
5.
 Woe to those who have seen the Son of Man; blessed will they be who have not seen the man, and they who have not consorted with him, and they who have not spoken with him, and they who have not listened to anything from him; yours is life!
 
6.
 Know, then, that he healed you when you were ill, that you might reign.
 
7.
 Woe to those who have found relief from their illness, for they will relapse into illness. Blessed are they who have not been ill, and have known relief before falling ill; yours is the kingdom of God.
 
8.
 Therefore, I say to you, Become full, and leave no space within you empty, for he who is coming can mock you.
 
9.
 Then Simon the Samaritan replied, Lo, three times you have told us, Become full; but we are full.
 
10.
 And Jesus answered and said, For this cause I have said to you, Become full, that you may not be in want.
 
11.
 They who are in want, however, will not be saved.
 
12.
 For it is good to be full, and bad to be in want.
 
13.
 Hence, just as it is good that you be in want and, conversely, bad that you be full, so he who is full is in want, and he who is in want does not become full as he who is in want becomes full, and he who has been filled, in turn attains due perfection.
 
14.
 Therefore, you must be in want while it is possible to fill you, and be full while it is possible for you to be in want, so that you may be able to fill yourselves the more.
 
15.
 Hence, become full of the Spirit, but be in want of reason, for reason belongs to the soul; in turn, it is of the nature of soul.
 
16.
 But I answered and said to him, Lord, we can obey you if you wish, for we have forsaken our fathers and our mothers and our villages, and followed you. Grant us, therefore, not to be tempted by the devil, the evil one.
 
17.
 And Jesus answered and said, What is your merit if you do the will of the Father and it is not given to you from him as a gift while you are tempted by Satan?
 
18.
 But if you are oppressed by Satan, and persecuted, and you do the Fathers will, I say that he will love you, and make you equal with me, and reckon you to have become beloved through his providence by your own choice.
 
19.
 So will you not cease loving the flesh and being afraid of sufferings?
 
20.
 Or do you not know that you have yet to be abused and to be accused unjustly; and have yet to be shut up in prison, and condemned unlawfully, and crucified <without> reason, and buried as I myself, by the evil one?
 
21.
 Do you dare to spare the flesh, you for whom the Spirit is an encircling wall?
 
22.
 If you consider how long the world existed before you, and how long it will exist after you, you will find that your life is one single day, and your sufferings one single hour.
 
23.
 For the good will not enter into the world.
 
24.
 Scorn death, therefore, and take thought for life!
 
25.
 Remember my cross and my death, and yet I now live!
 
26.
 But I answered and said to him, Lord, do not mention to us the cross and death, for they are far from you.
 
27.
 Therefore, become seekers for death, like the dead who seek for life; for that which they seek is revealed to them.
 
28.
 And what is there to trouble them?
 
29.
 As for you, when you examine death, it will teach you election.
 
30.
 Verily, I say unto you, none of those who fear death will be saved; for the kingdom belongs to those who put themselves to death.
 
31.
 Become better than I; make yourselves like the son of the Holy Spirit!
 

 
 
 

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