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BOOK FIVE

CHAPTER 136
1. IT came to pass then, when Jesus our Lord had been crucified and had risen from the
dead on the third day, that his disciples gathered round him, adored him and said: "Our
Lord, have mercy upon us, for we have abandoned father and mother and the whole
world and have followed thee."

2. At that time Jesus stood with his disciples on the water of the Ocean and made
invocation with this prayer, saying: "Hear me, my Father, father of all fatherhood,
boundless Light: aeēiouō iaō aōi ōia psinōther thernōps nōpsither zagourē pagourē
nethmomaōth nepsiomaōth marachachtha thōbarrabau tharnachachan zorokothora

ieou [= Yew] sabaōth."

3. While Jesus said this, Thomas, Andrew, James and Simon the Cananite were in the west
with their faces turned towards the east, and Philip and Bartholomew were in the south
turned towards the north, and the rest of the disciples and the women-disciples stood
back of Jesus. But Jesus stood at the altar.

4. And Jesus made invocation, turning himself towards the four corners of the world with
his disciples, who were all clad in linen garments, and saying: "iaō iaō iaō." This is its
interpretation: iōta, because the universe hath gone forth; alpha, because it will turn
itself back again; ōmega, because the completion of all the completeness will take place.

5. And when Jesus had said this, he said: "iaphtha iaphtha mounaēr mounaēr
ermanouēr ermanouēr." That is: "O father of all fatherhood of the boundless [spaces],
hear me for the sake of my disciples whom I have led before thee, that they may have
faith in all the words of thy truth, and grant all for which I shall invoke thee; for I know
the name of the father of the Treasury of the Light."

6. Again did Jesus,--that is Aberamenthō,--make invocation, speaking the name of the
father of the Treasury of the Light, and said: "Let all the mysteries of the rulers and the
authorities and the angels and the archangels and all powers and all things of the
invisible god Agrammachamarei and Barbēlō draw near the Leech [Bdella] on one side

and withdraw to the right."
7. And in that hour all the heavens went to the west, and all the æons and the sphere and
their rulers and all their powers flew together to the west to the left of the disk of the
sun and the disk of the moon.
8. And the disk of the sun was a great dragon whose tail was in his mouth and who
reached to seven powers of the Left and whom four powers in the form of white horses

drew.