17:1
The soul answered: What bound me has been slain; what surrounded and turned me has been overcome.
17:2
My desire has come to its end, and Ignorance has died.
17:3
From a world I have been released through another world; from one pattern through a pattern above it.
17:4
I have been released from the chain of forgetfulness, whose existence is only for a time.
17:5
From this moment onward I will receive the rest belonging to the season, the age, and silence.
17:6
When Miryam had said these things, she became silent, because this was as far as the Savior had spoken with her.
17:7
Andreas answered the brothers and sisters: Say what you think about what she has told us. I myself do not believe that the Savior said these things; these teachings seem unlike what we have heard.
17:8
Kepha spoke in the same dispute: Did the Savior really speak privately with a woman and not openly before us all?
17:9
Are we now to turn and listen to her? Did he prefer her to us?