26 "They ask the soul, 'Where do you come from, you murderer, and where are you going, conqueror of space?' (GMA) 27 "In response the soul said, 'What binds me has been killed, what surrounds me has been overcome, my desire is gone, and ignorance has died. In a [world] I was released [17]from a world, [and] in a type from a type which is above, and from the chain of forgetfulness which exists only for a time. From now on I'll receive the rest of the time of the season of the age in silence.'" (GMA) 28 When Mary said these things, she fell silent because the Savior had spoken with her up to this point. (GMA)
Gospel of Mary 1:26–28
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