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Light, then they will not be able to penetrate the regions, because they do not
perform the mystery [themselves].

5. But the receivers of Melchisedec follow them and lead them before the Virgin of
Light.
6. And the servitors of the judges of the rulers make frequent haste to take those
souls and hand them over from one to the other until they lead them before the
Virgin of Light."

CHAPTER 130
1. And Mary continued and said unto the Saviour: "My Lord, if a man hath received the
mysteries of the Light which [are] in the first space from without, and when the time of
the mysteries up to which they reach, is completed, and if that man continueth anew to
receive mysteries of the mysteries which [are] within the mysteries which he hath
already received, and moreover that man hath become negligent, not having prayed in
the prayer which taketh away the evil of the victuals which he eateth and drinketh, and

through the evil of the victuals he is bound to the axle of the Fate of the rulers and
through the necessity of the elements he hath sinned anew after the completion of the
time up to which the mystery reacheth,--because he hath become negligent and hath
not prayed in the prayer which taketh away the evil of the souls and purifieth them,--

and that man is come out of the body before he hath repented anew and anew received
the mysteries of the mysteries which [are] within the mysteries which he hath already
received,--those which accept repentance from him and forgive his sins,--and when he I
came forth out of the body and we knew with certainty that they have carried him into
the midst of the dragon of the outer darkness because of the sins which he committed,
and that that man hath no helper in the world nor any one compassionate, that he

should perform the mystery of the Ineffable until he should be removed out of the
midst of the dragon of the outer darkness and led into the Light-kingdom,--now,
therefore, my Lord, what will befall him until he save himself from the chastisements of
the dragon of the outer darkness? By no means, O Lord, abandon him, because he hath

endured sufferings in the persecutions and in the whole godhood in which he is.
2. "Now, therefore, O Saviour, have mercy with me, lest one of our kinsmen should be in
such a type, and have mercy with all the souls which shall be in this type; for thou art
the key which openeth the door of the universe and shutteth the door of the universe,
and thy mystery comprehendeth them all. Have then mercy, O Lord, with such souls. For
they have called on the name of thy mysteries, [were it but] for one single day, and have

truly had faith in them and were not in play-acting. Give them then, O Lord, a gift in thy
goodness and give them rest in thy mercy."