Jesus said to them, "How do you know me? Truly I say to you, no generation of the people among you will know me."
When his disciples heard this, they started to get angry and furious and started to curse him in their hearts.
But when Jesus noticed their ignorance, he said to them, "Why are you letting your anger trouble you? Has your God within you and his stars become angry with your souls? If any of you is strong enough among humans to bring out the perfect Humanity, stand up and face me."
All of them said, "We're strong enough." But their spirits weren't brave enough to stand before him– except Judas Iscariot. He was able to stand before him, but he couldn't look him in the eye, so he looked away.
Judas said to him, "I know who you are and where you've come from. You've come from the immortal realm of Barbelo, and I'm not worthy to utter the name of the one who's sent you."
Another day Jesus came up to them. They said to him, "Master, we've seen you in a dream, because we had great dreams last night."
But Jesus said, "Why do you hide yourselves?"
And they said, "We saw a great house, with a great altar in it, and twelve people – we'd say they were priests – and a name. And a crowd of people was waiting at the altar until the priests finished receiving the offerings. We kept waiting too."
Jesus said, "What were they like?"
And they said, "Some fast for two weeks. Others sacrifice their own children; others their wives, praising and humbling themselves among each other….. others murder; yet others commit many sins and do criminal things. And the people standing before the altar invoke your name! And in all their sacrificing, they fill the altar with their offerings." When they said this, they fell silent because they were troubled.
Jesus said to them, "Why are you troubled? Truly I say to you, all the priests standing before that altar invoke my name. And again, I say to you, my name has been written on this house of the generations of the stars by the human generations. And they have shamefully planted fruitless trees in my name." Jesus said to them, "You're the ones receiving the offerings on the altar you've seen. That's the God you serve, and you're the twelve people you've seen. And the animals you saw brought in to be sacrificed are the crowd you lead astray before that altar.