Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
He added also in the word, said he, (The Ruler of) the second array they
are wont to call him Ariuth the Ethiopian-woman, being a woman Ruler
being quite black, with fourteen other demons under her, they ruling
over many other demons. [326^b] And these demons which are there, who
are under Ariuth the Ethiopian-woman, they are those which are wont to
go in unto the men quarrelsome, until they excite the wars and killings
which happen; and give hardness to their heart and anger, for killings
to happen. And the souls, which this authority will take away by robbery
are wont to spend hundred with thirteen years in her Places, she is
tormenting them by her smoke of darkness with her evil fire, and they
draw near unto destruction. And after these (things) whenever the Sphere
should turn round, and (should) come the little Sabaoth the good, this
whom they are wont to call in the World Zeus; whenever he should come
unto the fourth Aeon of the Sphere which the Crab is, and (should) come
the Bubasti, this whom they are wont to call in the World, The
aphrodite, and she (should) come unto the [327^a] tenth House (Aeon, MS)
of the Sphere, this which they are wont to call, The He-goat, then they
are wont to draw (back) the veils which are between those of the Left
with those of the Right, and Ieou (should) look out on the Right and all
the World should be disturbed, and (should) be moved with all the Aeons
of the Sphere and (should) look upon the dwelling places of Ariuth the
Ethiopian-woman and her Places (should) be dissolved and be destroyed,
and they should take away all the souls which are in her punishments,
and (they) should throw them (back) unto the Sphere another time,
because that they perished by her smoke of darkness with her evil fire.
Added also said he, The (Ruler of the) third array they are wont to
call, The hecate the three of face, but there are twenty seven other
demons under her authority: they are those which are wont to go in unto
the men and they cause them to swear false(ly) and [327^b] they lie, and
love that which is not their own. The souls therefore which will take
away by robbery the hekate, she is wont to deliver them unto her demons
which are under her to torment them by her smoke of darkness with her
evil fire: they are afflicting them greatly by the demons, and they are
wont to spend hundred with five years with six months punishing them in
her punishments evil. But they are wont to begin to be destroyed and to
perish. And after these (things) whenever the Sphere should turn round
and (should) come the little Sabaoth the good, he of the Middle, this
(one) whom they are wont in the World to call, Zeus, and he (should)
come unto the eighth House (Aeon, MS) of the Sphere, this which they are
wont to call, The scorpion, and (should) come the Bubasti, this whom
they are wont to call, The aphrodite, and she (should) come unto the
second House (Aeon, MS) of the Sphere, this which they are wont to call,
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