"There is a perfect pre-existence, Aeon, a dwelling in the invisible and unnamable elevations; this is Pre-Beginning and Forefather and Depth. It is uncontainable and invisible, eternal and ungenerated, in quiet deep solitude for infinite aeons. With it is Thought, which is also called Grace and Silence. Depth thought of emitting itself, a beginning of all. Like a seed, this thought from Depth was placed into Silence, like a womb. Silence received this seed and bore Mind. Mind resembled and was equal to it that had created him.

"Mind alone comprehends the magnitude of his Father; he is called Only-Begotten and Father and Beginning of All. Along with him, Truth was emitted; this makes the first Four, the root.

"When Only-Begotten perceived why he had been emitted, he too emitted Logos and Life, since he was the father of all to come after him, and was the beginning of the whole Pleroma.

"From the union of Logos and Life were emitted Man and Church.

"When these Aeons, which had been emitted to the glory of the Father, themselves desired to glorify the Father, they joined each other in unions and suffered the emotions: Deep and Mingling, Unaging and Union, Self-Produced and Pleasure, Immovable and Mixture, Only-Begotten and Blessing.

"Man and Church emitted: Paraclete and Faith, Paternal and Hope, Maternal and Love, Everlasting and Intelligence, Ecclesiastical and Blessedness, willed and Sophia. Together, these are the thirty aeons, which are kept in Silence, and are not known. This is the invisible and spiritual Pleroma, triply divided into an eight, a ten and a twelve."