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power and the soul and the counterfeiting spirit, bring them down to the world, and
pour [them] out into the world of the rulers of the midst. The rulers of the midst look

after the counterfeiting spirit; and also the destiny, whose name is Moira, leadeth the
man until it hath him slain through the death appointed unto him, which the rulers of
the great Fate have bound to the soul. And the servitors of the sphere bind the soul and
the power and the counterfeiting spirit and the destiny. And they portion them all and
make them into two portions and seek after the man and also after the woman in the
world to whom they have given signs, in order that they may send them into them. And

they give one portion to the man and one portion to the woman in a victual of the world
or in a breath of the air or in water or in a kind which they drink.
14. "All this I will tell unto you and the species of every soul and the type, how they enter
into the bodies, whether of men or of birds or of cattle or of wild beasts or of reptiles or

of all the other species in the world. I will tell you their type, in what type they enter
into men; I will tell it you at the expansion of the universe.
15. "Now, therefore, when the servitors of the rulers cast the one portion into the woman
and the other into the man in the fashion which I have told you, then the servitors
secretly compel them, even if they are removed at very great distance from one
another, so that they concert to be in a concert of the world. And the counterfeiting

spirit which is in the man, cometh to the portion which is entrusted to the world in the
matter of his body, and lifteth it and casteth it down into the womb of the woman [into
the portion] which is entrusted to the seed of wickedness.
16. "And in that hour the three-hundred-and-sixty-and-five servitors of the rulers go into

her womb and take up their abode in it. The servitors bring the two portions the one to
the other, and moreover the servitors withhold the blood of all the food of the woman
which she will eat and which she will drink, and they withhold [it] in the womb of the
woman up to forty days. And after forty days they knead the blood of the power of all
the food and knead it well in the woman's womb.
17. "After forty days they spend another thirty days in building its members in the image of

the body of the man; each buildeth a member. I will tell you the decans who will build it
[sc. the body]; I will tell them you at the expansion of the universe.
18. "If then after this the servitors shall have completed the whole body and all its members
in seventy days, after this the servitors summon into the body which they have built,--
first indeed they summon the counterfeiting spirit; thereafter they summon the soul

within them; and thereafter they summon the compound of the power into the soul;
and the destiny they put outside them all, as it is not blended with them, [but] following
them and accompanying them.
19. "And after this the servitors seal them one to the other with all the seals which the
rulers have given them. [And] they seal the day on which they have taken up their

abode in the womb of the woman,--they seal [it] on the left hand of the plasm; and they