Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
the Light at first (but) afterwards they transgressed, or otherwise
indeed they did not do any mystery at all. These whenever they should
complete [298^a] their cycle in the changes (of body). And these of this
kind, when they should come out of body having not repented again, and
they take them unto the punishments which are in the midst of the dragon
of the Darkness which is outer, and are left in the cycles, and are left
in the punishments which (are) in the midst of the dragon, and these
knowing the mystery of one of the twelve names of the Angels, being
alive, being become in the World, and they say one of their names, being
within in the midst of the punishments of the dragon, (and the hour (in)
which they will say it, is wont to shake the whole dragon, M), and he is
wont to be disturbed greatly greatly. And the chambers in which are in
the souls of those men is wont to open its doors toward the heaven, and
is wont the Ruler of the chamber in which become those men, and he is
wont to cast the souls of those men [298^b] out of the midst of the
dragon of the Darkness which is outer, because they found the mystery of
the name of the dragon. And whenever the Ruler should cast out the
souls, are wont the Angels of Ieou, the first man, these who are
vigilant unto the chambers of that Place, he is wont to hasten
immediately and to carry off that soul until he bringeth her (close) to
Ieou, the first man, the Legate of the First precept. And is wont Ieou,
the first man, he is wont to see the souls and to prove them, he is wont
to find them, having completed their cycles. And it is not lawful for
them to bring them unto the World again, because every soul which they
will cast unto the dragon of the Darkness which is outer, it is not
lawful to bring them unto the World again: are wont to retain them the
Receivers of Ieou, if they did not [299^a] complete their number of
cycles in the changes of the body, and until they do the mystery of the
Ineffable for them, until they turn them unto a good body, this which is
wont to find the mysteries of the Light and inherit the kingdom of the
Light. But if should prove them Ieou, and find them having completed
their cycle, and it is not lawful for them to turn them unto the World
again, and the sign also of the Ineffable is not becoming with them, and
is wont to have mercy on them Ieou, he is wont to bring them (close) to
the seven Virgins of the Light: they are wont to baptise them (him, MS)
in their baptisms, but they are not wont to give to them the spiritual
chrism, and they are wont to take them unto the Treasury of the Light,
but they are not wont to put them in the array of the inheritance,
because that there is not sign nor is there seal [299^b] of the
Ineffable with them. But they are wont to be delivered from every
punishment, but they are wont to put them in the Light of the Treasury
apart by themselves, even until the catching up of the Universe: and in
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