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BOOK SIX

CHAPTER 144
1. . . . . . .
2. . . . [and lead them forth to the fire-rivers and fire-seas] and take vengeance on it
therein for another six months and eight days. Thereafter they lead it up on the way of
the midst, and every one of the rulers of the way of the midst chastizeth it in his

chastisements another six months and eight days. Thereafter they lead it to the Virgin of
Light, who judgeth the good and the evil, that she may judge it. And when the sphere
turneth itself, she handeth it over to her receivers, that they may cast it into the coons
of the sphere. And the servitors of the sphere lead it forth to a water which is below the

sphere; and it becometh a seething fire and eateth into it, until it purifieth it utterly.
3. "And then cometh Yaluham, the receiver of Sabaōth, the Adamas, who handeth the
souls the cup of forgetfulness, and he bringeth a cup filled with the water of
forgetfulness and handeth it to the soul, and it drinketh it and forgetteth all regions and
all the regions to which it hath gone. And they cast it down into a body which will spend
its time continually troubled in its heart.

4. "This is the chastisement of the curser."

5. Mary continued and said: "My Lord, the man who persistently slandereth, if he cometh
out of the body, whither shall he get or what is, his chastisement?"

6. Jesus said: "A man who persistently slandereth, if his time is completed through the
sphere, that he cometh out of the body, then Abiout and Charmōn, the receivers of
Ariēl, come, lead his soul out of the body and spend three days going round with it and
instructing it concerning the creatures of the world.
7. "Thereafter they lead it below into Ameute before Ariēl, and he chastizeth it in his
chastisements eleven months and twenty-and-one days.

8. "Thereafter they lead it into the chaos before. Yaldabaōth and his forty-and-nine
demons, and every one of his demons fall upon it another eleven months and twenty-
and-one days, scourging it with fiery whips.
9. "Thereafter they lead it into fire-rivers and boiling fire-seas, to take vengeance on it

therein another eleven months and twenty-and-one days.
10. "And thereafter they carry it on to the way of the midst, and every one of the rulers on
the way of the midst chastizeth it in his chastisements another eleven months and
twenty-and-one days.
11. "Thereafter they carry it to the Virgin of Light, who judgeth the righteous and the
sinners, that she may judge it. And when the sphere turneth itself, she handeth it over

to her receivers, that they may cast it into the æons of the sphere. And the servitors of