Pistis Sophia

...side of the inner [heavens]; so that the whole cosmos heard their voices, and they did not keep themselves steady until the ninth hour of the next day. The disciples, however, were sitting together, being in great fear, and they were troubled very, very greatly. They were afraid because of the great trembling that was occurring, and they were weeping with one another, saying: "What then is going to happen? Perhaps the Savior is going to dissolve all the topoi."

As they were saying these things and weeping with one another, at the time of the ninth hour of the next day, the heavens opened, and they saw Iēsous coming down, shining very, very brightly; there was no measure to the light that was in him. For he was shining more than at the time when he had ascended into the heavens; so that the powers of the cosmos could not speak because of the light in which he existed; and he was throwing rays of light, [which were] very, very many, and there was no measure to his rays; and his light was not the same, but it was of different kinds and of different types, [with] some surpassing others in one [moment]; and the light was all together. It was of three kinds, and one was surpassing the other [in] the same moment. The second, which was in the middle, was surpassing the one which was below; and the third, which was at the top of them all, was surpassing the second, which was below; and the first of the two [that] were below them all, it was of the kind of the light that had come upon Iēsous before he had ascended to...