Coming into Being

1Every realm emanates from him. They know they have come out from him like children who are from someone completely mature. They knew they had not yet received form or a name. The Father gives birth to each one. Then, when they receive form from his knowledge, although they are really within him, they do not know him. But the Father is complete, knowing every realm that is within him. If he wants to, he reveals whomever he wants, giving them a form and a name. He gives them a name and causes those to come into being who, before they come into being, are ignorant of the one who made them.

2I am not saying, then, that those who have not yet come into being are nothing, but they exist in the one who will want them to come into being when he wants, like a later time. Before everything is revealed, he knows what he will produce. But the fruit that he has not yet revealed does not yet know anything, nor does it do anything. In addition, every realm that is itself in the Father is from the one who exists, who establishes them from what does not exist. For those who have no root have no fruit either. They think to themselves, “I have come into being,” but they will dissolve by themselves. Because of this, those who did not exist at all will not exist.