24. That by Him, and through Him, and of Him, the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten song and daughters unto God. 25. And this we saw also, and bear record, that an angel of God who was in authority in the presence of God, who rebelled against the Only Begotten Son whom the Father loved and who was in the bosom of the Father--was thrust down from the presence of God and the Son, 26. And was called Perdition, for the heavens wept over him--he was Lucifer, a son of the morning. 27. And we beheld, and lo, he is fallen! is fallen! even a son of the morning. 28. And while we were yet in the Spirit, the Lord commanded us that we should write the vision, for we beheld Satan, that old serpent--even the devil--who rebelled against God, and sought to take the kingdom of our God, and His Christ, 29. Wherefore he maketh war with the Saints of God and encompasseth them round about. 30. And we saw a vision of the sufferings of those with whom he made war and overcame, for thus came the voice of the Lord unto us. 31. Thus saith the Lord concerning all those who know my power, and have been made partakers thereof, and suffered themselves through the power of the devil, to be overcome, and to deny the truth and defy my power-- 32. They are they who are the sons of perdition, of whom I say that it had been better for them never to have been born, 33. For they are vessels of wrath, doomed to suffer the wrath of God, with the devil and his angels in eternity; {248} 34. Concerning whom I have said there is no forgiveness in this world nor in the world to come, 35. Having denied the Holy Spirit after having received it, and having denied the Only Begotten Son of the Father--having crucified Him unto themselves and put Him to an open shame. 36. These are they who shall go away into the lake of fire and brimstone, with the devil and his angels, 37. And the only ones on whom the second death shall have any power; 38. Yea, verily, the only ones who shall not be redeemed in the due time of the Lord, after the sufferings of His wrath; 39. For all the rest shall be brought forth by the resurrection of the dead, through the triumph and the glory of the Lamb, who was slain, who was in the bosom of the Father before the worlds were made. 40. And this is the Gospel, the glad tidings, which the voice out of the heavens bore record unto us, 41. That He came into the world, even Jesus, to be crucified for the world, and to bear the sins of the world, and to sanctify the world, and to cleanse it from all unrighteousness; 42. That through Him all might be saved whom the Father had put into His power and made by Him,