Thou freest, and makest the tablets clean.[11]
Spirits are set free every night from this cage,
Independent, neither ruled nor ruling.
At night prisoners forget their prison,
At night kings forget their power:
No sorrow, no brooding over gain and loss,
No thought of this person or that person.
This is the state of the gnostic, even when he is awake;
God hath said, ‘Thou wouldst deem them awake while they slept.’[12]
He is asleep, day and night, to the affairs of the world,