Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
mystery is wont to give the defence to all the Places, This is, my Lord,
the second meaning. The third meaning also concerning the word which
thou saidst unto us once, The counterfeit spirit is wont to become enemy
unto the soul, causing it to do all the sins and all the passions, and
it is wont to convict her in the punishment concerning all the sins
which it caused her to do, in one word, it is wont to be enemy unto the
soul in every form. Concerning this word therefore which thou saidst
unto us once, The enemies of the man are his domestics [268^b] namely
the domestics of the soul are the counterfeit spirit with the Fate,
these which are enemy unto the soul at every time causing her to do
every sin with every wickedness. Then this, my Lord, is the third
meaning. The fourth meaning also concerning the word which thou saidst,
If the soul should come out of the body, and walk in the road of the
counterfeit spirit, and whenever it should not find the mystery of the
loosening of all the bonds with the seals, these which are bound to the
counterfeit spirit, and (yet) it should cease to be allotted unto her.
If therefore she should not find it, is wont the counterfeit spirit, it
is wont to take the soul (close) to the Virgin of the Light, the judge:
and is wont the judge, the Virgin of the Light, she is wont to prove the
soul and find about her, she having done sin; and having not also found
the mysteries of the Light with her. And she is wont to give [269^a] her
to one of her Receivers, and is wont her Receiver, he is wont to bring
her and cast her unto the body, and she is not wont to come out of the
changes with the body, having not given the last Cycle. Concerning this
word therefore my Lord, which thou saidst unto us once, (Become) being
reconciled with thine enemy while thou art on the road with him,
lest-haply thine enemy should give thee to the judge, and the judge
should give thee to the officer and the officer should cast thee unto
the prison, and thou shalt not come out of that place, having not given
the last smallest coin (lypton, MS), namely, the word (said) plainly,
Every soul which cometh out of the body, and walketh on the road with
the counterfeit spirit, and findeth not the mystery of the loosening of
all the seals, with all the bonds, and (yet) is loosened from the
counterfeit spirit, which is bound unto her; then that soul having
[269^b] not received mystery of (in, MS) the Light, having not found the
mysteries of the loosening of the counterfeit spirit, which is bound
unto her. She therefore finding it not, is wont the counterfeit spirit,
it is wont to take that soul (close) to the Virgin of the Light; and is
wont the Virgin of the Light, and that judge, she is wont to deliver
that soul unto one of her Receivers, and is wont her Receiver, he is
wont to cast her unto the Sphere of Aeons, and she is not wont to come
out of the changes of the body, having not given the last Cycle which is
reckoned unto her.
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