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4. When then Mary said this weeping, Jesus answered in great compassion and said unto
them: "Truly, my brethren and beloved, who have abandoned father and mother for my

name's sake, unto you will I give all mysteries and all gnoses.
5. "I will give you the mystery of the twelve æons of the rulers and their seals and their
ciphers and the manner of invocation for reaching their regions.
6. "I will give you moreover the mystery of the thirteenth æon and the manner of
invocation for reaching their regions, and I will give you their ciphers and their seals.
7. "And I will give you the mystery of the baptism of those of the Midst and the manner of

invocation for reaching their regions, and I will announce unto you their ciphers and
their seals.
8. "And I will give you the baptism of those of the Right, our region, and its ciphers and its
seals and the manner of invocation for reaching thither.

9. "And I will give you the great mystery of the Treasury of the Light and the manner of
invocation for reaching thither.
10. "I will give you all the mysteries and all the gnoses, in order that ye may be called
'children of the fulness, perfected in all the gnoses and all the mysteries.' Blessed are ye
beyond all men on earth, for the children of the Light are come in your time."

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1. Jesus continued in the discourse and said: "It came to pass then thereafter, that the
father of my father,--that is Yew,--came and took other three-hundred-and-sixty rulers
from the rulers of Adamas who had not had faith in the mystery of the Light, and bound
them into these aërial regions, in which we are now, below the sphere. He established
another five great rulers over them,--that is these who are on the way of the midst.
2. "The first ruler of the way of the midst is called Paraplēx, a ruler with a woman's shape,

whose hair reacheth down to her feet, under whose authority stand five-and-twenty
archdemons which rule over a multitude of other demons. And it is those demons which
enter into men and seduce them, raging and cursing and slandering; and it is they which
carry off hence and in ravishment the souls and dispatch them through their dark smoke

and their evil chastisements."

3. Mary said: "I shall behave badly to question thee. Be not wroth with me if I question on
all things."
4. Jesus said: "Question what thou wilt."

5. Mary said: "My Lord, reveal unto us in what manner they carry off hence the souls in
ravishment, that also my brethren may understand it."