The Prayer of Thanksgiving
We give thanks to You!
Every soul and heart is lifted up to You,
undisturbed name,
honored with the name ‘God’
and praised with the name 'Father',
for to everyone and everything
(comes) the fatherly kindness
and affection and love, and any teaching
there may be that is sweet and plain,
giving us mind, speech, (and) knowledge {GNOSIS}:
mind, so that we may understand You,
speech, so that we may expound You,
GNOSIS, so that we may know You.
We rejoice, having been illuminated by Your knowledge.
We rejoice because You have shown us Yourself.
We rejoice because while we were in (the) body, You have made us divine through Your GNOSIS knowledge.
The thanksgiving of the man who attains to You
is one thing: that we know You.
We have known You, intellectual light.
Life of life, we have known You.
Womb of every creature, we have known You.
Womb pregnant with the nature of the Father,
we have known You.
Eternal permanence of the begetting Father,
thus have we worshiped Your goodness.
There is one petition that we ask:
we would be preserved in GNOSIS.
And there is one protection that we desire:
that we not stumble in this kind of life.
From the Nag Hammadi Library
