Mary continueth her questioning. Mary said unto Jesus: My Lord, if our persecutors come upon us, who persecute us because of thee, and multitudes pursue us because of thy name, so that if we be submitted to the torture, is it possible that we utter the mystery, that we may immediately depart from the body without suffering pain?
2The Saviour answered and said unto Mary: Every one who hath accomplished the first of the three higher mysteries in life, when the time cometh to leave the body, shall soar into the Kingdom of Light without need of apology or sign, and without being held back by any power.
3And if he be in the midst of persecutions and tortures and utter that mystery, his soul will straightway become a great light-stream and depart from the body, and the tortures shall not have power over him, for he will soar into the height to the region of his inheritance.