Become Fully Human

'Lord, when someone meets you

in a moment of vision,

is it through the Psyche that they see,

or is it through the Pneuma?'

The Teacher answered:

'It is neither through the Psyche nor through the Pneuma,

but the Nous between the two

Which sees the vision.....'

{and so she says}

'Therefore let us atone,

And become fully human,

So that the Teacher can take root in us'.

{and the Teacher concludes}

'Henceforth I travel toward repose,

where time rests in the eternity of time;

I go now into silence.'

Having said all this, Mary became silent;

for it was in silence that the Teacher spoke to her.

Extracted with my own idiosyncrasies from The Gospel of Mary, translated by Jean-Yves Leloup.