Contents

1.     Introduction

2.     Section I - "Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being,...these stones will serve you."

3.     Section II - "Love your friends like your own soul, protect them like the pupil of your eye."

4.     Section III - "If flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels.
      Yet I marvel at how this great wealth has come to dwell in this poverty."

5.     Section IV - "There is light within a person of light, and it shines on the whole world.  If it does not shine, it is dark."

6.     Section V - "For this reason I say, if one is whole, one will be filled with light, but if one is divided, one will be filled with darkness."

7.     Section VI - "If two make peace with each other in a single house, they will say to the mountain, 'Move from here!' and it will move."

8.     Section VII - "How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two."

9.     Section VIII - "One can't enter a strong person's house and take it by force without tying his hands.  Then one can loot his house."

10.   Section IX - "As for you, then, be on guard against the world.  Prepare yourselves with great strength, so the robbers can't find a way to get to you, for the trouble you expect will come."

11.   Section X - "Whoever has something in hand will be given more, and whoever has nothing will be deprived of even the little they have."

12.   Section XI - "If a blind person leads a blind person, both of them will fall into a hole."

13.   Section XII - “Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death.”