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because they are dissolved in the fire of her chastisements."

7. He continued and said: "The fourth order is called Parhedrōn Typhōn, who is a mighty
ruler, under whose authority are two-and-thirty demons. And it is they which enter into
men and seduce them to lusting, fornicating, adultery and to the continual practice of
intercourse. The souls then which this ruler will carry off in ravishment, pass one-
hundred-and-twenty-and-eight years in his regions, while his demons torment them
through his dark smoke and his wicked fire, so that they begin to be ruined and

destroyed.
8. "It cometh to pass then, when the sphere turneth itself and the little Sabaōth, the Good,
he of the Midst, who is called Zeus, cometh, and when he cometh to the ninth æon of
the sphere which is called the Archer, and when Boubastis, who is called in the world

Aphroditē, cometh, and she cometh to the third æon of the sphere which is called the
Twins, then the veils which are between those of the Left and those of the Right, draw
themselves aside, and there looketh forth Zarazaz, whom the rulers call with the name
of a mighty ruler of their regions 'Maskelli,' and he looketh on the dwellings of
Parhedrōn Typhōn, so that his regions are dissolved and destroyed. And all the souls
which are in his chastisements are carried and cast back anew into the sphere, because

they are reduced through his dark smoke and his wicked fire."

9. Again he continued in the discourse and said unto this disciples: "The fifth order, whose
ruler is called Yachthanabas, is a mighty ruler under whom standeth a multitude of

other demons. It is they which enter into men and bring it about that they have respect
of persons,--treating the just with injustice, and favour the cause of sinners, taking gifts
for a just judgment and perverting it, forgetting the poor and needy,--they [the demons]
increasing the forgetfulness in their souls and the care for that which bringeth no
benefit, in order that they may not think of their life, so that when they come out of the
body, they are carried in ravishment.

10. "The souls then which this ruler will carry off in ravishment, are in his chastisements
one-hundred-and-fifty years and eight months; and he destroyeth them through his
dark smoke and his wicked fire, while they are exceedingly afflicted through the flames
of his fire.
11. "And when the sphere turneth itself and the little Sabaōth, the Good, who is called in

the world Zeus, cometh, and he cometh to the eleventh æon of the sphere which is
called the Water-man, and when Boubastis cometh to the fifth æon of the sphere which
is called the Lion, then the veils which are between those of the Left and those of the
Right, draw themselves aside, and there looketh out of the height the great Iaō, the
Good, he of the Midst, on the regions of Yachthanabas, so that his regions are dissolved

and destroyed. And all the souls which are in his chastisements are carried off and cast