THE FATHER

 The One 

The One is the invisible spirit. We should not think of it as a god or like a god. For it is greater than a god, because it has nothing over it and no lord above it. It does not exist within anything inferior to it, since everything exists within it alone. It is eternal, since it does not need anything. For it is absolutely complete. It has never lacked anything in order to be completed by it. Rather, it is always absolutely complete in light. 

The One is illimitable, since there is nothing before it to limit it, 

unfathomable, since there is nothing before it to fathom it,

immeasurable, since there was nothing before it to measure it, 

invisible, since nothing has seen it, 

eternal, since it exists eternally, 

unutterable, since nothing could comprehend it to utter it, 

unnamable, since there is nothing before it to give it a name. 

The One is the immeasurable light, pure, holy, immaculate.

 The One is unutterable and is perfect in incorruptibility. Not that it is part of perfection or blessedness or divinity:

 it is much greater.

The One is not corporeal and is not incorporeal. 

The One is not large and is not small. 

It is impossible to say, 

“How much is it? 

What kind is it?” 

For no one can understand it