world, for "all those called 'God'" (48). In the Gospel of Judas, the Great One seems to transcend the finite term God. The same theological point is made in the Secret Book of J o h n : The One is a sovereign that has nothing over it. It is God and Parent, Father of All, the invisible one that is over All, that is incorruptible, that is pure light at which no eye can gaze. The One is the invisible Spirit. We should not think of it as a God or like a God. For it is greater than a God, because it has nothing over it and no lord above it. It does not [exist] within anything inferior [to it, since everything] exists within it, [for it established] itself. (Nag Hammadi Codex II, 2—3) The transcendence of the Great One is emphasized in the Gospel of Judas. W h e n Jesus reveals the secrets of the universe to Judas, he uses phrases to depict the divine that recall the language of 1 Corinthians 2:9, Gospel of Thomas 17, the Prayer of the Apostle Paul in the N a g H a m m a d i library, and other texts. Jesus says: [Come], that I may teach you about [secrets] no person [has] ever seen. For there exists a great and boundless realm, whose extent no generation of angels has seen, [in which] there is [a] great invisible [Spirit],
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