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Plain text of Book Three · Thirty-fifth Piece

She (the soul) said: They counted me into life,

into its order they .......... me.

Let the Living God be remembered with goodness,

let the Mighty Living God be remembered with goodness,

let the Living God be remembered with goodness,

who made my garment not of this world.

He took off me the coat of darkness

and put on me a garment of radiance.

He put on me a garment

that is wondrous and endless.

I stretched out my body in it,

it became like the fullness of the worlds.

I spread my wings in it,

I went on and reached the firmament.

I opened my eyes in it,

my eyes became full of light.

I go on in my garment,

the garment that the Living God put on me.

I go on in the garment of life

until I come to the house of the Seven.

When I arrive at the house of the Seven,

they stand there and whisper.

"Why do you whisper, you Seven?

I do not belong to you."

I go on in my garment,

until I come to the house of the angel Abathur:

"Truth be upon you, man of tried righteousness!"

"Give me truth from yours."

I go on in my garment,

in the garment that the Living God put on me.

I go on in my garment,

until I come to the sons of salvation:

"Truth be upon you, man of tried righteousness!"

"Give me truth from yours."

I go on in my garment,

in the garment that the Living God put on me.

I go on in my garment,

until I come to the water brooks.

When I arrived at the water brooks,

the outflow of radiance came to meet me.

He took me by the palm of my right hand

and led me through the water brooks:

"Truth be upon you, man of tried righteousness."

"Give me truth from yours."

I go on in my garment,

in the garment that the Living God put on me.

I go on in my garment,

until I come to the abode of life.

When I arrived at the abode of life,

the good came to meet me.

They brought out radiance and clothed me with it,

brought light and covered me with it:

"Truth be upon you, man of tried righteousness." —

"Give me truth from yours."

The good counted me among their own

and perform for us the prayer to the Great Living God.

The Living God is exalted and victorious,

and victorious is the man who went this way.

It pleased the Great Living God;

what I said to Him, He heard:

"Daily, every day,

send me voice and strength.

The voice and the strength that You send me

will keep me awake, so that I do not stumble."