Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
wont to spend thirty other days building (up) his members in the image
of the body of the man, is wont each to build (up) a member, these (of)
which I shall say unto you which Dekans will build it, I shall say them
unto you in the Distribution of the Universe. If therefore it should
happen after these, the Ministers should complete all the body with all
its members in [310^b] seventy days. And after these, are wont the
Ministers they are wont to call in unto the body which they built (up):
first indeed they are wont to call the counterfeit spirit, afterwards
they are wont to call the soul within them, and afterwards they are wont
to call the mixture of the power in unto the soul: and the Fate they are
wont to put it outside of all (but) not mixing in with them, following
them at a distance after them: and after these are wont the Ministers,
they are wont to seal them in unto one another with all the seals which
gave to them the Rulers, and they are wont to seal (added in lower
margin) on the day (in) which they settled in the belly of the woman,
they are wont to seal him in unto the left hand of the (human) form; and
they are wont to seal on the day in which they completed the body on the
right hand: and they are wont to seal on the day in which the Rulers
delivered them unto them in the middle of the skull of the body of the
(human) form: and they are wont to seal on the [311^a] day (in) which
the soul cometh out of the Rulers, they are wont to seal him on the
skull of the (human) form. And they are wont to seal on the day (in)
which they kneaded the members, and separated unto (one) soul, they are
wont to seal him in the skull on right (hand) of the form. And the day
(in) which they bound the counterfeit spirit unto her (the soul) they
are wont to seal him behind the head of the form: and the day in which
breathed the power in unto the body the Rulers, they sealed him on the
cerebellum which is in the middle of the head of the form, and also on
the heart of the form: and also the number of years which will spend the
soul in the body, they are wont to seal him on the forehead, this which
is in the form: so that all these seals they are wont to seal on [311^b]
the form: all these seals I shall say their name unto you at the
Distribution of the Universe. And after the Distribution of the Universe
I shall say unto you because of what thing all these became. And if ye
wish to understand, I am that Mystery. Now therefore are wont the
Ministers, they are wont to complete the whole man, and all these seals
in which they sealed the body; are wont the Ministers, they are wont to
bring the whole speciality, and take them to all the Contentious Rulers,
these which are over all the punishments of the judgments, and they are
wont to give them to their Receivers who (and, MS) being their souls out
of the body: these are wont to give to them the speciality of the seals,
that they should know the time (in) which they will bring the souls out
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