The World is an Illusion

1. Yet what am I telling you? Those who are alive shall die? How do they live in an illusion?

2. The rich have become poor, and the kings are cast down.

3. Everything is subject to change.

4. The world is an illusion, if in fact I do not exaggerate the situation.

5. The resurrection, however, does not have that (illusory, passing) nature, because it is the reality that remains firm.

6. It is the revelation of what exists, even the transfiguration of things, and a transformation into what is new.

7. Because imperishability [will descend] on the perishable.

8. The light will flow down on the darkness, swallowing it up.

9. The Fullness then will fill the Deficiency.

10. These are symbols and images of the resurrection. This makes for what is good.