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Like my nature He became that I might learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him:

Like my nature He became that I might learn Him and like my form, that I might not turn back from Him:

And He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being:

And He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being:

And He who created me when yet I was not knew what I should do when I came into being:

And set over it the traces of His light, and I walked therein from the beginning even to the end.

Your flesh has not known what I am saying to you neither have your hearts known what I am showing to you.

Your flesh has not known what I am saying to you neither have your hearts known what I am showing to you.

For I do not turn away my face from them that are mine;

For I know them, and before they came into being I took knowledge of them, and on their faces I set my seal:

For I know them, and before they came into being I took knowledge of them, and on their faces I set my seal:

For I know them, and before they came into being I took knowledge of them, and on their faces I set my seal:

I fashioned their members: my own breasts I prepared for them, that they might drink my holy milk and live thereby.

I fashioned their members: my own breasts I prepared for them, that they might drink my holy milk and live thereby.

I willed and fashioned mind and heart: and they are mine, and by my own right hand I set my elect ones:

I willed and fashioned mind and heart: and they are mine, and by my own right hand I set my elect ones:

Open your ears and I will speak to you. Give me your souls that I may also give you my soul,

Open your ears and I will speak to you. Give me your souls that I may also give you my soul,

For I announce to you peace, to you His saints;

And gave me that I might speak the fruit of His peace:

I was strengthened and made mighty and took the world captive;

And I was unpolluted by my love for them, because they confessed me in high places: and the traces of the light were set upon their heart:

And His opening of me became my salvation; and I ran in His way in His peace, even in the way of truth:

From the beginning and even to the end I acquired His knowledge:

And I was established upon the rock of truth, where He had set me up:

And I drank and was inebriated with the living water that doth not die;

And my inebriation was not one without knowledge, but I forsook vanity and turned to the Most High my God,

And I was enriched by His bounty, and I forsook the folly which is diffused over the earth; and I stripped it off and cast it from me:

And I was enriched by His bounty, and I forsook the folly which is diffused over the earth; and I stripped it off and cast it from me:

And I was enriched by His bounty, and I forsook the folly which is diffused over the earth; and I stripped it off and cast it from me:

And I became like the land which blossoms and rejoices in its fruits:

And I worshipped the Lord on account of His glory; and I said, Blessed, O Lord, are they who are planted in thy land! and those who have a place in thy Paradise;

And I worshipped the Lord on account of His glory; and I said, Blessed, O Lord, are they who are planted in thy land! and those who have a place in thy Paradise;

He hath filled me with words of truth; that I may speak the same;

Teach me the Psalms of thy truth, that I may bring forth fruit in thee:

And open to me the harp of thy Holy Spirit, that with all its notes I may praise thee, O Lord.

In Him I have acquired eyes and have seen His holy day:

Ears have become mine and I have heard His truth.

The thought of knowledge hath been mine, and I have been delighted through Him.

The way of error I have left, and have walked towards Him and have received salvation from Him, without grudging.

I have put on incorruption through His name: and have put oft corruption by His grace.

For my love is the Lord, and therefore I will sing unto Him:

For I am made strong in His praise, and I have faith in Him.

For I am made strong in His praise, and I have faith in Him.

I will open my mouth and His spirit will utter in me the glory of the Lord and His beauty; the work of His hands and the operation of His fingers:

I was crowned by my God: my crown is living:

And I was justified in my Lord: my incorruptible salvation is He.

I was loosed from vanity, and I was not condemned:

I was loosed from vanity, and I was not condemned:

The choking bonds were cut off by her hands: I received the face and the fashion of a new person: and I walked in it and was saved;

The choking bonds were cut off by her hands: I received the face and the fashion of a new person: and I walked in it and was saved;

And the thought of truth led me on. And I walked after it and did not wander:

And all that have seen me were amazed: and I was regarded by them as a strange person:

And from thence He gave me the way of His precepts and I opened the doors that were closed,

Nothing appeared closed to me: because I was the door of everything.

And I went over all my bondmen to loose them; that I might not leave any man bound or binding:

And I went over all my bondmen to loose them; that I might not leave any man bound or binding:

And I imparted my knowledge without grudging: and my prayer was in my love:

And I sowed my fruits in hearts, and transformed them into myself: and they received my blessing and lived;

And they were gathered to me and were saved; because they were to me as my own members and I was their head. Glory to thee our head, the Lord Messiah. Hallelujah.

My heart was lifted up in the love of the Most High and was enlarged: that I might praise Him for His name's sake.

A cup of milk was offered to me: and I drank it in the sweetness of the delight of the Lord.

I am a priest of the Lord, and to Him I do priestly service: and to Him I offer the sacrifice of His thought.

I am a priest of the Lord, and to Him I do priestly service: and to Him I offer the sacrifice of His thought.

I am a priest of the Lord, and to Him I do priestly service: and to Him I offer the sacrifice of His thought.

My arms I lifted up to the Most High, even to the grace of the Lord: because He had cast off my bonds from me: and my Helper had lifted me up to His grace and to His salvation:

And I put off darkness and clothed myself with light,

And I was lifted up in His light; and I served before Him,

And I was lifted up in His light; and I served before Him,

And I became near to Him, praising and confessing Him;

He who gave me authority over bonds that I might loose them;

He that overthrew by my hands the dragon with seven heads: and thou hast set me over his roots that I might destroy his seed.

I was rescued from my bonds and unto thee, my God, I fled:

I was rescued from my bonds and unto thee, my God, I fled:

And I shall see him no more: because thy face was with me, which saved me by thy grace.

But I was despised and rejected in the eye of many: and I was in their eyes like lead,

But I was despised and rejected in the eye of many: and I was in their eyes like lead,

And I was clothed with the covering of thy Spirit, and thou didst remove from me my raiment of skin;

And I became mighty in: the truth, and holy by thy righteousness; and all my adversaries were afraid of me;

And I became admirable by the name of the Lord, and was justified by His gentleness, and His rest is for ever and ever. Hallelujah.

I poured out praise to the Lord, for I am His:

I poured out praise to the Lord, for I am His:

And I will speak His holy song, for my heart is with Him.

I will cry unto him from my whole heart: I will praise and exalt Him with all my members.

I will cry unto him from my whole heart: I will praise and exalt Him with all my members.

I stretched out my hands and sanctified my Lord:

I believed; therefore I was at rest; for faithful is He in whom I have believed:

I believed; therefore I was at rest; for faithful is He in whom I have believed:

I believed; therefore I was at rest; for faithful is He in whom I have believed:

For I am ready before destruction comes; and I have been set on His immortal pinions:

For I am ready before destruction comes; and I have been set on His immortal pinions:

They who saw me marvelled at me, because I was persecuted, and they supposed that I was swallowed up: for I seemed to them as one of the lost;

They who saw me marvelled at me, because I was persecuted, and they supposed that I was swallowed up: for I seemed to them as one of the lost;

They who saw me marvelled at me, because I was persecuted, and they supposed that I was swallowed up: for I seemed to them as one of the lost;

And my oppression became my salvation; and I was their reprobation because there was no zeal in me;

Because I did good to every man I was hated,

Because I did good to every man I was hated,

But I was carrying water in my right hand, and their bitterness I endured by my sweetness;

But I was carrying water in my right hand, and their bitterness I endured by my sweetness;

And I did not perish, for I was not their brother nor was my birth like theirs.