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 What, then, is that which he wants him to think?
 
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 The saviour said, I am like the shadows and phantoms of the night.
  
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 When morning comes, this one knows that the fear which he had experienced was nothing.
 
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 Thus they were ignorant of the Father; he is the one whom they did not see.
 
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 Since there had been fear and confusion and a lack of confidence and doublemindness and division, there were many illusions which were conceived by him, the foregoing, as well as empty ignorance –
 
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 As if they were fast asleep and found themselves a prey to troubled dreams.
 
7.
 Either there is a place to which they flee, or they lack strength as they come, having pursued unspecified things.
 
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 Either they are involved in inflicting blows, or they themselves receive bruises.
 
9.
 Either they are falling from high places, or they fly off through the air, though they have no wings at all.
 
10.
 Other times, it is as if certain people were trying to kill them, even though there is no one pursuing them; or, they themselves are killing those beside them, for they are stained by their blood.
 
11.
 Until the moment when they who are passing through all these things –
 
12.
 I mean they who have experienced all these confusions - awake, they see nothing because the dreams were nothing.
 
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 It is thus that they who cast ignorance from them as sheep do not consider it to be anything, nor regard its properties to be something real, but they renounce them like a dream in the night and they consider the knowledge of the Father to be the dawn.
 
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 It is thus that each one has acted, as if he were asleep, during the time when he was ignorant and thus he comes to understand, as if he were awakening.
 
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 And happy is the man who comes to himself and awakens.
 
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 Indeed, blessed is he who has opened the eyes of the blind.
 

 
 
 

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