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3. When then Mary had said this, the Saviour called her most exceedingly blessed because
of the words which she had spoken.

4. And the Saviour was in great compassion and said unto Mary:
5. "Unto all men who shall be in this type of which thou hast spoken, unto them
while they [are] still in life, give ye the mystery of one of the twelve names of the
dungeons of the dragon of the outer darkness,--those which I will give you when
I have ended explaining unto you the universe from within without and from
without within.

6. "And all men who shall find the mystery of one of the twelve names of that
dragon of the outer darkness, and all men even if they are very great sinners,
and they have first received the mysteries of the Light and thereafter have
transgressed, or they have performed no mystery at all, then if they have

completed their circuits in the changes, and if such men go forth out of the body
without having repented anew, and if they are led into the chastisements which
[are] in the midst of the dragon of the outer darkness, and remain in the circuits
and remain in the chastisements in the midst of the dragon,--these, if they know
the mystery of one of the twelve names of the angels while they are in life and
are in the world, and if they speak one of their names while they are in the midst

of the chastisements of the dragon,--then, at the hour when they shall speak it,
the whole dragon will be tossed about and most exceedingly convulsed, and the
door of the dungeon in which the souls of those men are, openeth itself upward,
and the ruler of the dungeon in which those men are, casteth the souls of those

men out of the midst of the dragon of the outer darkness, because they have
found the mystery of the name of the dragon.
7. "And when the ruler casteth out souls, straight-way the angels of Yew, the First
Man, who watch the dungeons of that region, hasten to snatch away those souls
to lead them before Yew, the First Man, the Envoy of the First Commandment.
And Yew, the First Man, seeth the souls and proveth them; he findeth that they

have completed their circuits and that it is not lawful to bring them anew into
the world, for it is not lawful to bring anew into the world all souls which are cast
into the outer darkness. [But] if they have not yet completed their number of
circuits in the changes of the body, the receivers of Yew keep them with them
until they perform for them the mystery of the Ineffable, and remove them into

a good body which shall find the mysteries of the Light and inherit the Light-
kingdom.
8. "But if Yew proveth them and findeth that they have completed their circuits and
that it is not lawful to [re]turn them anew to the world, and that also the sign of
the Ineffable is not with them, then Yew hath compassion upon them and

leadeth them before the seven virgins of the Light. They baptize them with their