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you indeed from the beginning that ye are not of the world. I also am not of it. For all
men who are in the world have gotten their souls out of [the power of] the rulers of the

æons. But the power which is in you is from me; your souls belong to the height. I have
brought twelve powers of the twelve saviours of the Treasury of the Light, taking them
out of the portion of my power which I did first receive.
6. And when I had set forth for the world, I came into the midst of the rulers of the sphere
and had the form of Gabriēl the angel of the æons; and the rulers of the æons did not
know me, but they thought that I was the angel Gabriēl.

7. “It came to pass then, when I had come into the midst of the rulers of the æons, that I
looked down on the world of mankind, by command of the First Mystery. I found
Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptizer, before she had conceived him, and I sowed

into her a power which I had received from the little Iaō, the Good, who is in the Midst,
that he might be able to make proclamation before me and make ready my way, and
baptize with the water of the forgiveness of sins. That power then is in the body of John.

8. “Moreover in place of the soul of the ruler which he was appointed to receive, I found
the soul of the prophet Elias in the æons of the sphere; and I took him thence, and took

his soul and brought it to the Virgin of Light, and she gave it over to her receivers; they
brought it to the sphere of the rulers and cast it into the womb of Elizabeth.
9. So the power of the little Iaō, who is in the Midst, and the soul of the prophet Elias, they
were bound into the body of John the Baptizer. For this cause then were ye in doubt

aforetime, I when I said unto you: ‘John said: I am not the Christ,’ and ye said unto me:
10. ‘It standeth written in the scripture: When the Christ shall come, Elias cometh before
him and maketh ready his way.’
11. But when ye said this unto me, I said unto you: ‘Elias verily is come and hath made ready
all things, as it standeth written, and they have done unto him as they would.’ And when
I knew that ye had not understood that I had discoursed with you concerning the soul of

Elias which is bound into John the Baptizer, I answered you in the discourse in openness
face to face:
12. ‘If ye like to accept John the Baptizer: he is Elias, of whom I have said that he will
come.’”