[1] The apocalyptic text focuses on events such as the creation, actions of the Redeemer and the Antichrist, and the last triumph of the highest Power.
The author urges people to wake up from their dreamlike state and return to the true food and "water of life.
The wickedness of the world is stronger than the forces of good, but the righteous will be protected by a divine power and enter into an immeasurable light.
It also discusses the psychic aeon that is mixed with bodies and the negative qualities it brings such as wrath, envy, malice, and disease.
The archons, however, will raise their wrath against him and deliver him up to the ruler of Hades, who will find that the nature of the man's flesh cannot be seized.
The text then goes on to describe the events that follow, including the rise of wickedness, the archons sending an imitator (the Antichrist), and the child growing up and performing great signs.
It concludes by describing a time of judgment and purification, in which wickedness will be cleansed and the souls of the righteous will enter into a state of light and immortality.