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 But when the nature of man shall be taken up, and the race which is repairing to me, in obedience to my voice, then that which now hears me shall be united with it and shall no longer be what it now is, but above them, as I am now. For as long as thou callest not thyself mine, I am not that which I was. But if hearing thou hearkenest unto me, then thou shalt be as I am, and I shall be what I was, when I have thee with myself. For from this thou art. Care not, therefore, for the many, and them that are outside the mystery despise! Know that I am wholly with the Father, and the Father with me.

101. "Nothing therefore of the things which they will say of me have I suffered: nay, that suffering also which I showed unto thee and unto the rest in the dance, I will that it be called a mystery. For what thou art, thou seest, that did I show thee; but what I am, that I alone know, and none else. Let me, therefore, keep that which is my own, and that which is thine behold thou through me, and behold me in truth not I am, as I said, but what thou art able to know, because being akin. Thou hearest that I suffered, yet I suffered not; that I suffered not, yet did I suffer; that I was pierced, yet was I not smitten; hanged, and I was not hanged; that blood flowed from me, yet it flowed not; and, in a word, those things that they say of me I had not, and the things that they say not those I suffered. Now what they are I will signify unto thee, for I know thou wilt understand. Perceive thou, therefore, in me the rest of the Logos,