Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
every power, with every work of the invisible God ag(x
corrected)rammakhamar(inserted)ei with the Barbēlo the bdella, let them
draw near apart and separate them(selves) on (the) right (hand). But at
that hour all the heavens came unto the west with all the Aeons with the
Sphere with their Rulers with all their powers, they ran all unto the
west on (the) left (hand) of the disk of the sun with the disk of the
moon. But the disk of the sun was being a great dragon with his tail
within his mouth, being mounted on [320^a] seven powers of the Left, and
drawing under him viz.: four powers being in the likeness of white
horses: but the going (basis, MS) of the moon was being of the type of a
ship, with a dragon male with a dragon female being for rudder unto it,
with two calves of white drawing under it, with the likeness of a child
behind the moon steering the dragons who rob the light of the Rulers
from them: with a face of cat in front of him. And all the World with
the mountains with the seas ran all of them unto the west unto the left.
And Jesus with his disciples remained in the midst of the aëry Place in
the roads of the road of the Middle, this which is below the Sphere. And
they came unto the first array of the road (added in margin, MS) which
is in the Middle. But Jesus stood (up) in the air of her (of the road)
Place with his disciples. Said the disciples of Jesus to him, What is
this Place in which we are? [320^b] Said Jesus, These are the Places of
the road of the Middle: for it happened, having been disorderly the
Rulers of the Adamas, they continued working intercourse, begetting
Rulers and Archangels and Angels and Ministers and Dekans. Came out on
(the) Right Ieou the Father of my Father, he bound them in a Destiny of
the Sphere: for there are twelve Aeons becoming, Sabaoth the Adamas
ruling over six, and Iabraoth his brother ruling over other six. Then
therefore Iabraoth believed the mysteries of the Light with his Rulers,
and he worked in the mysteries of the Light, he forsook the mysteries of
the intercourse. But Sabaoth indeed the Adamas remained working in the
intercourse with his Rulers. And Ieou the Father of my father, having
seen, that believed Iabraoth, he took him away with all the Rulers who
believed [321^a] with him: he received (him) unto him(self) from the
Sphere, he took him unto a (Place of) air, which was purified in the
presence of the light of the sun, between the Places of those of the
Middle, and between the Places of the invisible God. He put him there
with the Rulers who believed him. And he took away Sabaoth the Adamas
with his Rulers, these who worked not in the mysteries of the Light, but
who continued working in the mysteries of the intercourse. He bound them
in unto the Sphere. He bound eighteen hundred Rulers in every Aeon: he
put three hundred and sixty over them. He put another five great Rulers
ruling over the three hundred sixty and over all the Rulers who are
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