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'''The One in ''Allogenes''''' (Nag Hammadi Codex XI, Tractate 3):

==Negative theology==
:Now he is an entity insofar as he exists,
:in that he either exists and becomes,
:or (acts) <lives> or knows,
:although he (lives) <acts> without '''Mind''' or '''Life''' or '''Existence'''
:—or '''Nonexistence'''—'''incomprehensibly'''.
 
:And although he is an entity along with its own attributes,
:he is not '''left over''' in any way,
:as if he yields something that can be assayed or purified [or]
:as if he receives or gives.
 
:Nor is he '''diminished''' in any way, [whether] by his own desire
:or whether by giving or receiving through another.
 
:Neither does he have any '''desire''', whether his own
:or that which would have been added by something else.
 
:But neither does he '''produce''' anything by himself
:lest he become diminished in some other way.
 
:Therefore, he requires neither '''Mind''' nor '''Life'''
:nor indeed anything at all.
 
:He is superior to the '''totality''' in his privation and unknowability—which is nonbeing Existence—
:although he is endowed with '''silence''' and '''stillness'''
:lest he be diminished by the undiminishable.
 
:He is neither '''Divinity''' nor '''Blessedness''' nor '''Perfection'''.
:Rather he is an unknowable entity, not an attribute.
:Rather he is something else superior to Blessedness and Divinity and Perfection,
:for he is not '''perfect''', but he is another thing that is superior.
 
:He is neither '''boundless'''
:nor is he '''bounded''' by another.
:Rather he is something superior.
 
:He is neither '''corporeal''' nor '''incorporeal''',
:neither '''great''' [nor] '''small''',
:neither a '''quantity''' nor a [<'''quality'''>].
 
:Nor is he something that '''exists''' that one can know;
:rather he is something else that is superior that one cannot know.
 
:Even if primary revelation and self-knowledge characterize him,
:it is he alone who '''knows himself'''.
 
:Since he is '''not among existing things''',
:he is something else superior to '''superlative''',
:even in comparison to what is
:and is not proper to him.
 
:He neither participates in '''eternity'''
:nor does he participate in '''time''',
:nor does he '''receive''' anything from anything else.
 
:He is neither '''diminishable''',
:nor '''diminishing''',
:nor '''undiminishable'''.
 
:But he is '''self-comprehension''',
:like something so unknowable
:that he exceeds those that excel in unknowability.
 
:Even if he is endowed with blessedness and perfection and silence,
:he is not the '''Blessed One''', nor is he '''Perfection''' or '''Stillness'''.
:But he is something existing that one cannot [know]
:and that is at rest.
 
:Rather they are completely unknowable aspects of him,
:while he is much superior in beauty than all good things.
:And in this way he is universally unknowable in every respect,
:and it is through them all that he is in them all.
 
:Not only is he the '''unknowable knowledge''' that is proper to him,
:he is also '''united with the ignorance''' that sees him.
 
:<Whether one sees> in what way he is unknowable,
:or sees him as he is in every respect,
:or would say that he is something like knowledge,
:he has acted impiously against him,
:being liable to judgment because he did not know God.
 
:He will not be judged by that One,
:who is neither concerned for anything nor has any desire,
:but he is judged by himself
:because he has not found the truly existing origin.
 
:He was blind apart from the quiescent source of revelation,
:the actualization deriving from the Triple-Power of the first thought of the Invisible Spirit.

==Positive theology==
:This one thus exists from ...... something…[established on….
:It was with] beauty and [a dawning] of stillness and silence and tranquility
:and unfathomable magnitude that he appeared.
 
:He needed neither time nor <did he participate> in eternity.
:Rather he is self-derived, unfathomably unfathomable.
:He does not act—not even upon himself—so as to become still.
:He is not an Existence lest he be in want.
:Spatially he is corporeal, while properly he is incorporeal.
:He has nonbeing Existence.
:He exists for all of them unto himself without any desire.
 
:Rather he is a maximum of magnitude.
:And he transcends his stillness
:in order that ...... [the In]visible [Spirit].
 
:[Although] he [empowered them all],
:[they do not] concern themselves with that One at all,
:nor is he empowered if one should participate in him.
 
:In accordance with his immobile unity, nothing acts on him.
:For he is unknowable; he is a breathless place of the boundlessness.
 
:Since he is boundless and powerless and nonexistent,
:he was not providing Being.
:Rather he contains all of these in himself,
:being at rest and standing.
 
:From the One who constantly stands,
:there appeared an eternal Life,
:the Invisible and Triple-Powered Spirit,
:the one that is in all existing things
:and surrounds them all while transcending them all.
 
:A shadow ...... he [was filled with power.
:And] he stood before [them],
:empowering them all,
:and he filled them all.

==See also==
*''[[Mystical Theology]]''
*''[[Divine Names]]''

==References==
<references/>
*Meyer, Marvin (2007). ''The Nag Hammadi scriptures''. New York: HarperOne. ISBN 978-0-06-162600-5.

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