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baptisms, but they do not give them the spiritual chrism. And they lead them
into the Treasury of the Light, but they do not put them in the orders of the

Inheritance, because no sign and no seal of the Ineffable is with them. But they
save them from all chastisements and put them into the light of the Treasury,
separated and apart by themselves alone until the ascension of the universe.
And at the time when they will draw apart the veils of the Treasury of the Light,
they cleanse those souls anew and purify them most exceedingly and give them
anew mysteries and put them in the last order which [is] in the Treasury, and

those souls will be saved from all the chastisements of the judgments."

9. And when the Saviour had said this, he said unto his disciples: "Have ye understood in
what manner I discourse with you?"

10. Mary then answered and said "My Lord, this is the word which thou hast spoken unto us
aforetime, in a similitude, saying:
11. 'Make to yourselves a friend out of the Mamōn of unrighteousness, so that if ye
remain behind, he may receive you into I the everlasting tents.' Who then is the
Mamōn of unrighteousness, if not the dragon of the outer darkness?

12. This is the word: He who shall understand the mystery of one of the names of the
dragon of the outer darkness, if he remaineth behind in the outer darkness or if he hath
completed the circuits of the changes, and speaketh the name of the dragon, he will be
saved and go up out of the darkness and be received into the Treasury of the Light. This

is the word, my Lord."

13. The Saviour answered again and said unto Mary: "Well said, spiritual and pure [one].
This is the solution of the word."

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1. Mary continued again and said: "My Lord, doth the dragon of the outer darkness come

into this world or doth he not come?"
2. The Saviour answered and said unto Mary: "When the light of the sun is outside [?
above the world], he covereth the darkness of the dragon; but if the sun is below the
world, then the darkness of the dragon abideth as veiling of the sun and the breath of
the darkness cometh into the world in form of a smoke in the night,--that is, if the sun
withdraweth into himself his rays, then indeed the world is not able to endure the

darkness of the dragon in its true form; otherwise would it be dissolved and go to ruin
withal."