Gospel of Truth 1:43–51

^43a He’s good. He knows his plants, because he planted them in his paradise. Now his paradise is a place of rest. This [37] is the completion in the Father’s thought, and these are the words of his meditation. Each of his words is the work of his one will in the revelation of his Word. (GTR) ^43b When they were still in the depths of his thought, the Word – which was the first to come out – revealed them along with a mind that speaks the one Word in a silent grace. He was called “the Thought,” since they were in it before being revealed. It happened, then, that he was the first to come out at the time when it pleased the one who wanted it. Now the Father rests in his will, and is pleased with it. (GTR) ^44a Nothing happens without him, nor does anything happen without the will of the Father, but his will is incomprehensible. His trace is the will, and no one can know him, nor does he exist for people to scrutinize so that they might grasp him, but when he wills, what he wills is this – even if the sight doesn’t please them in any way before God – the will of the Father, because he knows the beginning of all of them, and their end, for in the end he’ll greet them directly. (GTR) ^44b Now the end is receiving knowledge of the one who’s hidden; this is the Father, [38] from whom the beginning has come, and to whom all who’ve come out from him will return. They were revealed for the glory and the joy of his name. (GTR) ⁴⁵ Now the name of the Father is the Son. He’s the one who first gave a name to the one who comes out from him, who was himself, and he gave birth to him as a Son. He gave him his name which belonged to him. He’s the one to whom everything around the Father belongs. The name and the Son are his. It’s possible for him to be seen; the name, however, is invisible, because it alone is the mystery of the invisible which comes to ears that are filled completely with it by him. For indeed, the Father’s name isn’t spoken, but it’s revealed through a Son. (GTR) ⁴⁶ In this way, then, the name is great. Who, then, will be able to utter a name for him, the great name, except him alone to whom the name belongs, and the children of the name, those in whom the Father’s name rests, and who themselves, in turn, rest in his name? Since the Father is unbegotten, it’s he alone who gave birth to him for himself as a name, before he had made the generations, so that the Father’s name might be over their head as Lord, which is the [39] true name, confirmed in his command in complete power. For the name isn’t from words and naming; the name, rather, is invisible. (GTR) ⁴⁷ He gave a name to him alone. He alone sees him, he alone having… (GTR)