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the height; the soul on the other hand senseth to seek after the region of righteousness
which is mixed, which is the region of the commixture; the counterfeiting spirit on the

other hand seeketh after all evils and lusts and all sins; the body on the contrary senseth
nothing unless it taketh up force out of the matter.
8. "And straightway the three develop sense, every one according to its nature. And the
retributive receivers assign the servitors to follow them and be witnesses of all the sins
which they commit, with a view to the manner and method how they will chastize them
in the judgments.

9. "And after this the counterfeiting spirit contriveth and senseth all sins and the evil which
the rulers of the great Fate have commanded for the soul, and it maketh them for the
soul.
10. "And the inner power stirreth the soul to seek after the region of the Light and the

whole god-head; and the counterfeiting spirit leadeth away the soul and compelleth it
continually to do all its lawless deeds, all its mischiefs and all its sin, and is persistently
allotted to the soul and is hostile to it, and making it do all this evil and all these sins.
11. "And it goadeth on the retributive servitors, so that they are witnesses in all the sins
which it will make it do. Moreover also if it will rest in the night [or] by day, it stirreth it
in dreams or in lusts of the world, and maketh it to lust after all the things of the world.

In a word, it driveth [?] it into all the things which the rulers have commanded for it and
it is hostile to the soul, making it do what pleaseth it not.

12. "Now, therefore, Mary, this is in fact the foe of the soul, and this compelleth it until it

doeth all sins.
13. "Now, therefore, if the time of that man is completed, first cometh forth the destiny and
leadeth the man unto death through the rulers and their bonds with which they are
bound through the Fate.
14. "And thereafter the retributive receivers come and lead that soul out of the body. And
thereafter the retributive receivers spend three days circling round with that soul in all

the regions and dispatch it to all the æons of the world. And the counterfeiting spirit
and the destiny follow that soul; and the power returneth to the Virgin of Light.
15. "And after three days the retributive receivers lead down that soul to the Amente of the
chaos; and when they bring it down to the chaos, they hand it over to those who
chastize. And the retributive receivers return unto their own regions according to the

economy of the works of the rulers concerning the coming-forth of the souls.
16. "And the counterfeiting spirit becometh the receiver of the soul, being assigned unto it
and transferring it according to the chastisement because of the sins which it hath made
it commit, and is in great enmity to the soul.
17. "And when the soul hath finished the chastisements in the chaos according to the sins

which it hath committed, the counterfeiting spirit leadeth it forth out of the chaos,