Rulers
The Rulers wanted to fool us,
since they say we were connected with the good.
They took the names of the good
and gave them to the not good
so with names they could trick
and rope us to the not good.
As though doing us a favor,
they took names from the not good
and placed them on the good.
They knew what they were doing.
They wanted to grab those of us who were free
and make us eternal slaves.
Ancient people are not so different from us, apparently.
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Phillip was an unknown or pseudonymic author, perhaps a poet, or a parishoner in a Christian Coptic church about 300 C.E. possibly in Syria. He (or they) was commenting on the times and the texts he was familiar with, including Christian Coptic Gnosis (knowledge) and one very popular interpretation of the life and works of Christ from Valentinian.
"The Gnostic Bible; Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds- Pagan, Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaen, Islamic and Cathar," Ed. by William Barnstone and Marvin Meyer. Shambhala, Boston, 2003.