[5] The text is introduced as secret words written down by Mathaias while listening to Jesus speaking with Judas Thomas.
Jesus describes the unsearchable love of light and the bitterness of the fire that blazes in humans, making their minds and souls deranged, and advises fleeing visible spirits.
Thomas asks what will happen to those who fight against them, and Jesus says they will dissolve in fire and water, hide in tombs of darkness, and be punished by beasts and men.
Jesus warns that those who turn away from his words will be cast down to the abyss and imprisoned in a narrow dark place, pursued by fiery scourges.
Jesus also speaks of the captivity of those who are bound in caverns and dwell in darkness and death while being drunk with the fire and full of bitterness.
He goes on to speak of the blessed, who have prior knowledge of the stumbling blocks, who flee alien things, and who are reviled and not esteemed on account of the love their lord has for them.
He urges them to watch and pray, to come forth from the bondage of the bitterness of this life and find rest, for they have left behind the suffering and the disgrace, and will reign with the king forever.