Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
man, at first indeed is wont to come out the Fate and lead the man
[260^a] in unto the death by the Rulers with their bonds, these in which
they were bound by the Destiny: and afterwards are wont to come the
Contentious Receivers, and bring that soul out of the body, and
afterwards are wont the Contentious Receivers they are wont to spend
three days going about with that soul in all the Places, sending it unto
all the Aeons of the World: (while) followeth after that soul the
counterfeit spirit with the Fate, and is wont the power to withdraw
(close) to the Virgin of the Light. And after the three days are wont
the Contentious Receivers they are wont to bring that soul down down
unto Amente of the Chaos. And whenever they should bring her down unto
the Chaos they are wont to deliver her to those who punish. And are wont
the [260^b] Receivers to withdraw unto their Places according to the
arrangement of the works of the Rulers, because of the coming out of the
souls. And is wont the counterfeit spirit, it is wont to become Receiver
of the soul, allotting her, convicting her according to the punishment,
because of the sins which it caused her to do. And it is wont to become
in a great enmity towards the soul, and whenever the soul should
complete the punishments in the Chaoses according to the sins which she
did, is wont the counterfeit to bring her up from the Chaoses allotting
her, convicting her from Place to Place because of the sins which she
did. And is wont to bring her out on the road of the Rulers of the
Middle. And whenever he should reach them, they are wont to seek from
her the mysteries of the Fate. And if she did not find them, they are
wont to seek from their Fate. And are wont those Rulers, they are wont
to punish that soul [261^a] according to the sins for which she is
worthy (to be punished). These I shall say unto you, viz.: the type of
their punishment in the Distribution of the Universe. Whenever therefore
it should happen, whenever should be completed the time of the
punishment of that soul in the judgments of the Rulers of the Middle, is
wont the counterfeit spirit, it is wont to bring the soul up from all
the Places of the Rulers of the Middle, it is wont to take her up before
the light of the sun according to the commandment of the first man Ieou:
and it is wont to take her (close) to the judge the Virgin of the Light.
She is wont to prove that soul, and find it being a sinful soul. And she
is wont to cast her power of light in unto her, because of setting up
the soul and the body and the sharing of the perception. These I shall
say, viz.: their type, unto you in the Distribution of the Universe.
[261^b] And is wont the Virgin of the Light, she is wont to seal that
soul and lay her on one of her Receivers, and causeth them to cast her
(him, MS) into a body worthy of the sins which she did: and Amen I say
unto you that she shall not release that soul from the changes of the
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