Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
body, having not given her last cycle (of changes) according to the
(things) which are worthy (for her). These all therefore I shall say
their type unto you with the type of the bodies unto which they shall
cast them according to the sins of every soul, these I shall say unto
you all (of them), whenever I should finish saying to you the
Distribution of the Universe. Added also Jesus in the word, said he, If
also a soul is which is not wont to hearken unto the counterfeit spirit
(in) all his works, and this (soul) became good, she received the
mysteries of the Light, these which (are) in the second Space, or indeed
these [262^a] which (are) in the third Space, these which (are) from
within (on the inward part, MS): whenever should be completed the time
of that soul (of coming) out of the body; and is wont the counterfeit
spirit, it is wont to follow that soul, it with the Fate, it is wont to
follow in the road by which it will go unto the Height. And having not
yet been distant from the Height, she is wont to say the mystery of the
loosing of her seals, with all the bonds of the counterfeit spirit,
these with which the Rulers bound it in unto the soul. And whenever they
should say them, are wont to be loosed the bonds of the counterfeit
spirit, and it is (wont) to cease coming in unto that soul, and it is
wont to release the soul according to the commands which ordered unto it
the Rulers of the great Destiny, saying to it, Release not this soul
except she say unto thee the mystery of the loosing of every seal, these
in which we bound thee in unto [262^b] the soul. Whenever it should
happen therefore, whenever the soul, whenever she should say the mystery
of the loosing of the seals with all the bonds of the counterfeit
spirit, and (whenever) it ceaseth coming in unto the soul, and ceaseth
being bound in unto her, and in that hour it is wont to say a mystery
and dismiss the Fate unto her Place (close) to the Rulers which (are) in
the road of the Middle. And she is wont to say the mystery, and dismiss
the counterfeit spirit (close) to the Rulers of the Destiny unto the
Place in which they bound it unto her. And in that hour she is wont to
become a great effluence of light, becoming of light greatly greatly,
and are wont the Contentious Receivers, these which brought her out of
the body, they are wont to fear before the light of that soul, and fall
down upon their face. And in that hour is wont that soul, she is wont to
become a great effluence of light, and she is wont to [263^a] become
wing of light all of her, and to pass through every Place of the Rulers
with all the arrays of the Light, even until she goeth unto the Place of
her kingdom unto which she received mystery. If also it is a soul,
having received mystery in the first Space, reckoning from without
(which is from without, MS), and after receiving the mysteries and
completing them, and turned (not M) and committed sin again, after the
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