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just recounted unto you. Give unto them the mysteries of the Light-kingdom and hide
them not from them at all; for it is because of sinfulness that I have brought the

mysteries into the world, that I may forgive all their sins which they have committed
from the beginning on. For this cause have I said unto you aforetime: 'I am not come to
call the righteous.' Now, therefore, I have brought the mysteries that [their] sins may be
forgiven for every one and they be received into the Light-kingdom. For the mysteries
are the gift of the First Mystery, that he may wipe out the sins and iniquities of all
sinners."

CHAPTER 103
1. It came to pass then, when Jesus had finished saying these words unto his disciples, that
Mary came forward and said to the Saviour: "My Lord, will then a righteous man who is
perfected in all righteousness, and that man who hath no sin at all, will such an one be
tormented in the chastisements and judgments or not? Or will rather that man be
brought into the kingdom of heaven or not?"

2. And the Saviour answered and said unto Mary: "A righteous man who is perfected in all
righteousness and who hath never committed any sin of any kind, and such an one who
never hath received mysteries of the Light, if the time is at hand when he goeth forth

out of the body, then straightway come the receivers of one of the great triple-powers,--
those among whom there is a great [one],--snatch away the soul of that man from the
hands of the retributive receivers and spend three days circling with it in all the
creatures of the world. After three days they lead it down into the chaos, so as to lead it
into all the chastisements of the judgments and to dispatch it to all the judgments. The
fires of the chaos do not trouble it greatly; but they will trouble it partly for a short time.

3. "And with haste they take pity on it quickly, to lead it up out of the chaos and lead it on
the way of the midst through all the rulers. And they [sc. the rulers] do not chastize it in
their harsh judgments, but the fire of their regions troubleth it partly. And if it shall be
brought into the region of Yachthanabas, the pitiless, then will he indeed not be able to

chastize it in his evil judgments, but he holdeth it fast a short time, while the fire of his
chastisements troubleth it partly.
4. And again they take pity on it quickly, and lead it up out of those regions of theirs and
they do not bring it into the æons, so that the rulers of the æons do not carry it away
ravishingly; they bring it on the way of the sun and bring it before the Virgin of Light.
She proveth it and findeth that it is pure of sins, but letteth them not bring it to the

Light, because the sign of the kingdom of the mystery is not with it. But she sealeth it
with a higher seal and letteth it be cast down into the body into the æons of