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9. And the base of the moon had the type of a ship which a male and a female dragon
steered and two white bulls drew. The figure of a babe was on the stern of the moon

who guided the dragons who robbed the light from the rulers. And on its prow was a
cat's face.
10. And the whole world and the mountains and the seas fled together to the west to the
left.
11. And Jesus and his disciples remained in the midst in an aëry region on the ways of the
way of the midst, which lieth below the sphere. And they came to the first order of the

way of the midst. And Jesus stood in the air of its region with his disciples.

12. The disciples of Jesus said unto him: "What is this region in which we are?
13. Jesus said: "These are the regions of the way of the midst. For it came to pass, when the

rulers of Adamas mutinied and persistently practised congress, procreating rulers,
archangels, angels, servitors and decans, that Yew, the father of my father, came forth
from the Right and bound them to a Fate-sphere.
14. "For there are twelve æons; over six Sabaōth, the Adamas, ruleth, and his brother
Yabraōth ruleth over the other six. At that time then Yabraōth with his rulers had faith in
the mysteries of the Light and was active in the mysteries of the Light and abandoned

the mystery of congress. But Sabaōth, the Adamas, and his rulers have persisted in the
practice of congress.
15. "And when Yew, the father of my father, saw that Yabraōth had faith, he carried him
and all the rulers who had had faith with him, took him unto himself out of the sphere

and led him into a purified air in face of the light of the sun between the regions of
those of the midst and between [?] the regions of the invisible god. He posted him there
with the rulers who had had faith in him.
16. "But he carried Sabaōth, the Adamas, and his rulers who had not been active in the
mysteries of the Light, but have been persistently active in the mysteries of congress,
and inbound them into the sphere.

17. "He bound eighteen-hundred rulers in every æon, and set three-hundred-and-sixty over
them, and he set five other great rulers as lords over the three-hundred-and-sixty and
over all the bound rulers, who in the whole world of mankind are called with these
names: the first is called Kronos, the second Arēs, the third Hermēs, the fourth
Aphroditē, the fifth Zeus."