The revelation of Dositheos about the three steles of Seth, the Father of the living and
unshakable race, which he (Dositheos) saw and understood. And after he had read
them, he remembered them. And he gave them to the elect, just as they were inscribed
there. Many times I joined in giving glory with the powers, and I became worthy of the
immeasurable majesties. Now they (the steles) are as follows:
The First
Stele of Seth
I bless thee, Father Geradama(s), I, as thine (own) Son, Emmacha Seth, whom thou
didst beget without begetting, as a blessing of our God; for I am thine (own) Son. And
thou art my mind, O my Father. And I, I sowed and begot; but thou hast seen the
majesties. Thou hast stood imperishable. I bless thee, Father. Bless me, Father. It is
because of thee that I exist; it is because of God that thou dost exist. Because of thee I
am with that very one. Thou art light, since thou beholdest light. Thou hast revealed light.
Thou art Mirotheas; thou art my Mirotheos. I bless thee as God; I bless thy divinity. Great
is the good Self-begotten who stood, the God who had already stood. Thou didst come in
goodness; thou hast appeared, and thou hast revealed goodness. I shall utter thy name,
for thou art a first name. Thou art unbegotten. Thou hast appeared in order that thou
mightest reveal the eternal ones. Thou art he who is. Therefore thou hast revealed those
who really are. Thou art he who is uttered by a voice, but by mind art thou glorified, thou
who hast dominion everywhere. Therefore the perceptible world too knows thee
because of thee and thy seed. Thou art merciful.
And thou art from another race, and its place is over another race. And now thou art from
another race, and its place is over another race. Thou art from another race, for thou art
not similar. And thou art merciful, for thou art eternal. And thy place is over a race, for
thou hast caused all these to increase; and for the sake of my seed. For it is thou who
knows it, that its place is in begetting. But they are from other races, for they are not
similar. But their place is over other races, for their place is in life. Thou art Mirotheos.
I bless his power which was given to me, who caused the malenesses that really are to
become male three times; he who was divided into the pentad, the one who was given to
us in triple power, the one who was begotten without begetting, the one who came from
that which is elect; because of what is humble, he went forth from the midst.
Thou art a Father through a Father, a word from a command. We bless thee, Thrice Male,
for thou didst unite all through them all, for thou hast empowered us. Thou hast arisen
from one; from one thou hast gone forth; thou hast come to one. Thou hast saved, thou
hast saved, thou hast saved us, O crown-bearer, crown-giver! We bless thee eternally.
We bless thee, once we have been saved, as the perfect individuals, perfect on account
of thee, those who became perfect with thee who is complete, who completes, the one
perfect through all these, who is similar everywhere.
Thrice Male, thou hast stood. Thou hast already stood. Thou wast divided everywhere.
Thou didst continue being one. And those whom thou hast willed, thou hast saved. But
thou dost will to be saved all who are worthy.
Thou art Perfect! Thou art Perfect! Thou art Perfect!
The First
Stele of Seth
The Second Stele
of Seth
Great is the first aeon, male virginal Barbelo, the first glory of the invisible Father, she
who is called "perfect".
Thou (fem.) hast seen first the one who truly pre-exists because he is non-being. And
from him and through him thou hast pre-existed eternally, the non-being from one
indivisible, triple power, thou a triple power, thou a great monad from a pure monad,
thou an elect monad, the first shadow of the holy Father, light from light.
We bless thee, producer (fem.) of perfection, aeon-giver (fem.). Thou hast seen the
eternal ones because they are from a shadow. And thou hast become numerable. And
thou didst find, thou didst continue being one (fem.); yet becoming numerable in division,
thou art three-fold. Thou art truly thrice, thou one (fem.) of the one (masc.). And thou art
from a shadow of him, thou a Hidden One, thou a world of understanding, knowing those
of the one, that they are from a shadow. And these are thine in the heart.
For their sake thou hast empowered the eternal ones in being; thou hast empowered
divinity in living; thou hast empowered knowledge in goodness; in blessedness thou
hast empowered the shadows which pour from the one. Thou hast empowered this (one)
in knowledge; thou hast empowered another one in creation. Thou hast empowered him
who is equal and him who is not equal, him who is similar and him who is not similar.
Thou hast empowered in begetting, and (provided) forms in that which exists to others.
[...] Thou hast empowered these. - He is that One Hidden in the heart. - And thou hast
come forth to these and from these . Thou art divided among them. And thou dost
become a great male noetic First-Appearer.
Fatherly God, divine child, begetter of multiplicity according to a division of all who
really are, thou (masc.) hast appeared to them all in a word. And thou (masc.) dost
possess them all without begetting and eternally indestructible on account of thee (fem.).
Salvation has come to us; from thee is salvation. Thou art wisdom, thou knowledge; thou
art truthfulness. On account of thee is life; from thee is life. On account of thee is mind;
from thee is mind. Thou art mind, thou a world of truthfulness, thou a triple power, thou
threefold. Truly thou art thrice, the aeon of aeons. It is thou only who sees purely the first
eternal ones and the unbegotten ones.
But the first divisions are as thou wast divided. Unite us as thou has been united. Teach
us those things which thou dost see. Empower us that we may be saved to eternal life.
For we are each a shadow of thee as thou art a shadow of that first pre-existent one.
Hear us first. We are eternal ones. Hear us as the perfect individuals. Thou art the aeon
of aeons, the all-perfect one who is established.
Thou hast heard! Thou hast heard!
Thou hast saved! Thou hast saved!
We give thanks! We bless thee always! We shall glorify thee!
The Second Stele
of Seth
The Third Stele
We rejoice! We rejoice! We rejoice!
We have seen! We have seen! We have seen the really pre-existent one, that he
really exists, that he is the first eternal one.
O Unconceived, from thee are the eternal ones and the aeons, the all-perfect ones
who are established, and the perfect individuals.
We bless thee, non-being, existence which is before existences, first being which
is before beings, Father of divinity and life, creator of mind, giver of good, giver of
blessedness!
We all bless thee, knower, in a glorifying blessing, (thou) because of whom [all
these are. ... really, ...], who knows thee, through thee alone. For there is no one who
is active before thee. Thou art an only and living spirit. And thou knowest one, for this
one who belongs to thee is on every side. We are not able to express him. For thy light
shines upon us.
Present a command to us to see thee, so that we may be saved. Knowledge of thee, it is
the salvation of us all. Present a command! When thou dost command, we have been
saved! Truly we have been saved! We have seen thee by mind! Thou art them all, for
thou dost save them all, he who was not saved, nor was he saved through them. For thou,
thou hast commanded us.
Thou art one. Thou art one, just as there is one (who) will say to thee: Thou art one, thou
art a single living spirit. How shall we give thee a name? We do not have it, For thou art
the existence of them all. Thou art the life of them all. Thou art the mind of them all. For
thou art he in whom they all rejoice.
Thou hast commanded all these to be saved through thy word [...] glory who is before
him, Hidden One, blessed Senaon, he who begat himself, Asineu(s), [...]ephneu(s),
Optaon, Elemaon the great power, Emouniar, Nibareu(s), Kandephor(os), Aphredon,
Deiphaneus, thou who art Armedon to me, power-begetter, Thalanatheu(s), Antitheus,
thou who existeth within thyself, thou who art before thyself - and after thee no one
entered into activity.
As what shall we bless thee? We are not empowered. But we give thanks, as being
humble toward thee. For thou hast commanded us, as he who is elect, to glorify thee to
the extent we are able. We bless thee because we were saved. Always we glorify thee.
For this reason we shall glorify thee, that we may be saved to eternal salvation. We
have blessed thee, for we are empowered. We have been saved, for thou hast willed
always, that we all do this.
We all did this. [...] not through [... aeon ...], the one who was [...], we and those who
[...]. He who will remember these and give glory always will become perfect among
those who are perfect and impassable beyond all things. For they all bless these
individually and together. And afterwards they shall be silent. And just as they were
ordained, they ascend. After the silence, they descend from the third. They bless the
second; after these the first. The way of ascent is the way of descent.
Know therefore, as those who live, that you have attained. And you taught yourselves the
infinite things. Marvel at the truth which is within them, and (at) the revelation.
