Simon Magus: Büyük Bildiri ve Ateş Ağacı

The fire that is above the heavens is the storehouse, like a great tree from which all flesh is nourished. The manifested side of the fire is the trunk, branches, leaves, and the outer bark. All these parts of the great tree are set on fire by the all-devouring flame and destroyed. But the fruit of the tree—if its "imaging forth" is perfected and it takes shape of itself—is placed in the storehouse and is not cast into the fire. For the fruit is produced to be placed in the storehouse, but the husk is committed to the fire; that is to say, the trunk is generated not for its own sake, but for the sake of the fruit. Man is subject to generation and suffering so long as he remains in potentiality. But once his "imaging forth" is accomplished, he becomes like unto God. Freed from the bonds of suffering and birth, he attains perfection.