Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
But answered Jesus, said he to Maria: If the hour-setters—if they should
find the Destiny, with the Sphere turned [29^a] to the Left according to
their first distribution, their words are wont to come (right), and they
will say that which it is right to become; but if they come (upon) the
Destiny or the Sphere turned to the Right, they are not wont to say
anything true, because that I turned their influences with their
four-corners with their three-corners with their eight-forms. Since were
being constant their influences from at first (so long as they were)
turned to the Left, with their four-corners, with their three-corners,
with their eight-forms. But now I caused them to spend six months turned
to the Left and six months turned to the Right: he who will find their
numbering from the time which I [29^b] altered them; having put them for
to spend six months looking unto their Left paths, and six months unto
their Right paths, he who attendeth therefore to them thus, he will know
their influences in accuracy, and he will utter every thing which they
will do. Likewise also the enquirers if they should invoke the name of
the Rulers, and come upon them looking to the Left, everything
concerning which they will seek of their Dekans they will tell them in
accuracy. If however should their enquirers invoke their names looking
to the Right, they will not hear them, because that they are looking
another form contrary to their first precept (position) in which settled
them Ieou; since some of their names [30^a] are turned to the Left and
other of their names are turned to the Right: and if they should invoke
them turned to the Right, they will not say unto them the truth, but in
confusion they will confuse them and in a threat they will threaten
them. Those who know not therefore their direction turned to the Right,
and with their three-corners, and with their four-corners, with all
their figures, they will find nothing true, but they will be confused in
great confusion, and they will become in a great error, and they will
stray in great straying (from the truth): because that the works which
they were wont to do once in their four-corners turned to the Left and
in their three-corners and in their eight-figure, these in which they
were being constant, [30^b] doing them turned to the Left. I altered
them now, and I caused them to spend six months doing all their forms
turned to the Right, that they might be confused in confusion in all
their circuit; and further I cause them to spend six months turned to
the Left, doing the works of their influences with all their forms, that
in confusion should be confused and in an error should err the Rulers
who become in the Aeon and in their Spheres and in their heavens and in
all their Places, that they should not understand their own movements.
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