2. Now, the Gospel is the revelation of the hopeful, it is the finding of themselves by those who seek him. For since the totality were searching for him from whom they came forth—and the totality were within him, the Inconceivable Incomprehensible, he who exists beyond all thought¹—hence unacquaintance with the Father caused anxiety and fear. Then the anxiety condensed like a fog so that no one could see. (¹Ph 125)
3. Wherefore confusion grew strong, contriving its matter in emptiness and unacquaintance with the truth, preparing to substitute a potent and alluring fabrication for truthfulness. But this was no humiliation for him, the Inconceivable Incomprehensible. For the anxiety and the amnesia¹ and the deceitful fabrication were nothing—whereas the established truth is immutable, imperturbable and of unadornable beauty. Therefore despise confusion! It has no roots and was in a fog concerning the Father, preparing labors and amnesia and fear in order thereby to entice those of the transition and take them captive. (Ph 68; ¹Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina: ‘That universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: one must live in the needs of the day—that is, forget.’)
4. The amnesia of confusion was not made as a revelation, it is not the handiwork of the Father. Forgetfulness does not occur under his directive, although it does happen because of him. But rather what exists within him is acquaintanceshipº—this being revealed so that forgetfulness might dissolve and the Father be recognized. Since amnesia occurred because the Father was not recognized, thereafter when the Father is recognized there will be no more forgetting.