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6. Jesus,--that is Aberamenthō,--said: "Since indeed the father of my father,--that is Yew,--
is the fore-minder of all the rulers, gods and powers who have arisen out of the matter

of the Light of the Treasury, and Zorokothora Melchisedec is the envoy to all the lights
which are purified in the rulers, leading them into the Treasury of the Light,--these two
alone are the great Lights, and their ordinance is that they down go to the rulers and
purify them, and that Zorokothora Melchisedec carrieth away the purification of the
lights which they have purified in the rulers and leadeth them into the Treasury of the
Light,--when the cipher and the time of their ordinance cometh, that they go down to

the rulers and oppress and constrain them, carrying away the purification from the
rulers.
7. "But straightway when they shall cease from the oppressing and constraining and return
to the regions of the Treasury of the Light, it cometh to pass that, if they reach the

regions of the Midst, Zorokothora Melchisedec carrieth off the lights and leadeth them
unto the gate of those of the Midst and leadeth them into the Treasury of the Light, and
that Yew withdraweth himself into the regions of those of the Right.
8. "Up to the time of the cipher for them to come forth again, the rulers mutiny through
the wrath of their wickedness, going straightway up to the lights, because they [Yew and
Melchisedec] are not with them at that time, and they carry off the souls which they

may be able to snatch away in ravishment, and destroy them through their dark smoke
and their evil fire.
9. "At that time then this authority, with name Paraplēx, along with the demons which
stand under her, carrieth off the souls of the violently passionate, of cursers and of

slanderers and dispatcheth them through the dark smoke and destroyeth them through
her evil fire, so that they begin to be undone and dissolved. One-hundred-and-thirty-
and-three years and nine months do they spend in the chastisements of her regions,
while she tormenteth them in the fire of her wickedness.
10. "It cometh to pass then after all these times, when the sphere turneth itself and the
little Sabaōth, Zeus, cometh to the first of the æons of the sphere, which is called in the

world the Ram of Boubastis, that is of Aphroditē; [and] when she [Boubastis] cometh to
the seventh house of the sphere, that is to the Balance, then the veils which are
between those of the Right and those of the Left, draw themselves aside, and there
looketh from the height out of those of the Right the great Sabaōth, the Good; and the
whole world and the total sphere [become alarmed] before he hath looked forth. And

he looketh down on the regions of Paraplēx, so that her regions may be dissolved and
perish. And all the souls which are in her chastisements, are carried and cast back [up]
into the sphere anew, because they are ruined in the chastisements of Paraplēx."