T A O P A T T A The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
Non-Christian Ascetic Allegory and Hellenic Parody ? The embodied (Soul) who has controlled his nature having renounced all actions by the mind dwells at ease in the City of Nine Gates, neither working nor causing work to be done. --- Bhagvad Gita 5:13
Endurance of Habitation
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Endurance of Habitation - Poverty of the Hellenes

14	A man among them answered, saying, "The name of this city is Habitation, that is, Foundation [...] endurance."	12
15	And the leader among them holding the palm branch at the edge of the dock.	12
40	And the poor of that city heard his voice, and they came to the man who sells this pearl.	12
41	They said, "Please take the trouble to show us the pearl so that we may, then, see it with our (own) eyes.	12
42	For we are the poor.	12
43	And we do not have this [...] price to pay for it.	12
44	But show us that we might say to our friends that we saw a pearl with our (own) eyes."	12
46	And indeed they, the poor of that city, heard and said, "Since we are beggars, we surely know that a man does not give a pearl to a beggar, but (it is) bread and money that is usually received.	12
47	Now then, the kindness which we want to receive from you (is) that you show us the pearl before our eyes.	12
48	And we will say to our friends proudly that we saw a pearl with our (own) eyes" - because it is not found among the poor, especially such beggars (as these).	12
50	The poor and the beggars rejoiced because of the man who gives for nothing.	12
75	As I was about to go and call my friends, I saw waves and large high walls surrounding the bounds of the city.	12
78	He [...], "Habitation [...]."	12
79	He said to me, "You speak truly, for we inhabit here because we endure."	12

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