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is called in his region 'Chrēmaōr.'

15. "These rulers then of these twelve dungeons are inside the dragon of the outer
darkness, each and every one of them hath a name every hour, and every one of them
changeth his face every hour. And moreover every one of these dungeons hath a door
opening upwards, so that the dragon of the outer darkness hath twelve dark dungeons,
and every dungeon hath a door opening upwards. And an angel of the height watcheth
each of the doors of the dungeons,--whom Yew, the First Man, the overseer of the Light,

the envoy of the First Commandment, hath established as watchers of the dragon, so
that the dragon and the rulers of his dungeons which are in him, may not mutiny."

CHAPTER 127
1. When the Saviour had said this, Mary Magdalene answered and said: "My Lord, will
then the souls which shall be led into that region, be led through these twelve doors of
the dungeons, every one according to the judgment of which it is deserving?"

2. The Saviour answered and said unto Mary:
3. "No soul at all will be led into the dragon through these doors.
4. But the soul[s] of the blasphemers and of those who are in the doctrines of error

and of all who teach doctrines of error, and of those who have intercourse with
males, and of those stained and impious men and of atheists and murderers and
adulterers and sorcerers,--all such souls then, if while still in life they do not
repent but remain persistently in their sin, and all the souls which have stayed
behind without, that is those which have had the number of the circuits which
are appointed them in the sphere, without having repented,--well, at their last

circuit will those souls, they and all the souls of which I have just told you, be led
out of [?] the jaws of the tail of the dragon into the dungeons of the outer
darkness.
5. And when those souls of the doors of the dungeons have been led into the outer

darkness into the jaws of his tail, he turneth his tail into his own mouth and
shutteth them in. Thus will the souls be led into the outer darkness.

6. "And the dragon of the outer darkness hath twelve authentic names on his
doors, a name on every one of the doors of the dungeons. And these twelve
names are different one from another; but the twelve are one in the other, so

that he who speaketh one name, speaketh all. These then will I tell you at the
expansion of the universe. Thus then is fashioned the outer darkness,--that is the
dragon."