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Historical Library · Other Early Christian Apocrypha
Overcoming the Powers
Provisional translation of the available English witness, not a summary. Images interpret the narrated conversations, Mary’s reported vision, and symbolic teachings; they do not establish historical events or reconstruct lost pages. Opening pages 1–6 and central pages 11–14 are missing.
Source and translation notes
Anonymous. Mary is a recipient and interpreter of revelation in the narrative, not its claimed author. Her identity is unspecified; this edition does not identify her as Mary Magdalene or another Mary.
Papyrus Berolinensis 8502,1, with Greek fragments · Coptic/Greek (source-language review pending)
English witness: Mark M. Mattison. Public Domain dedication stated on source page.
Heading and section break are modern navigation aids, not ancient verse divisions. Numbered reading units are modern paragraph divisions, not ancient verse numbers.
- Provisional bridge rendering based on the supplied public-domain English witness.
- Square brackets preserve manuscript restoration signals.
- Direct review of the ancient-language witnesses remains pending.
Gospel of Mary 4:5
The Fourth Power
Overcoming the Powers · Gospel of Mary 4
Story guide: A dark threshold begins to divide into seven contours, introducing the fourth power.
Open this scene in the reader →5When the soul had overcome the third power, it went up and saw the fourth power, which took seven forms:
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