The Light Mind and The Solitary Man

A student asks the messenger Mani about the light mind:

You said the light mind will come and be a saint
and he too is a god and many gods
are with him, and when he enters the body of flesh
he binds the old man with his five counsels
(the five sleepless guardian sons of living spirit
in whose human form the cosmos is made)
and he inserts those five intellectual qualities
into the five limbs of his body.
Where is he now? (student asks)
The old man stands chained in the body! (student says)
And though he is in bondage,
I see how demonic rebellions surge in him.

Second, I ask (student), if he is a great god,
unchanging and immeasurable,
how could he come and be found in the pettiness
of the body?

Third, tell me (student) how is a holy one the mind,
and how is he pure despite the defilement of the body?

Fourth, if the light mind exists in saints,
why can't we see his likeness as he is?
I beg you, can you be persuasive and tell me
what I ask you?

Fifth, tell me about your mission.
Look, it isn't clear to me.
In this world they oppress and persecute you.

Mani offers his student a vision:

The whole revelation I have unveiled
and declared to the church. In your presence
I declare this revelation alone.

The student asks:

Everything you unveiled, you did so in our presence
yet I want to know about the light mind.
What is the light mind.

The Kephalaia
The Gnostic Bible
Edited by Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer