The only-begotten one is hidden within Setheus and has twelve fatherhoods in his right hand and thirty powers in his left, giving light to the aeons.
The text describes the roles of an all-visible being and a mother figure in assigning rank and bestowing crowns to believers.
The mother figure sets up the self-father and the protogenitor son, who is given the power to create worlds and an aeon called imperishability and Jerusalem.
The father of the all sends a crown and an ineffable garment to the protogenitor, who gives light to all and gathers them into the form of a veil.
The text also explores the concept of the existent being separated from the non-existent, and the mother is placed as head with purifying powers and a hidden all-womb.
The mother established her first-born son, gave him hosts of angels and archangels, twelve powers to serve him, and a garment containing all bodies.
The protogenitor divided all matter, raised up myriad kinds, and gave law to them to love and honor God.
The text describes the prayer of the mother to the infinite and unknowable one who sends a power from the Man they desire to see, the Lord of Glory.
[3][17] The writing has a significant amount of similarities with Zostrianos,[18] an apocalyptic and neoplatonist text found near Nag Hammadi.
[19] The similarities are so substantial—their shared descriptions of Aeons, of celestial "judges", of Michar and Micheau, and occasional identical wording—that scholar Dylan M. Burns writes that the texts demonstrate "literary dependence, although its direction cannot be ascertained".