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the sphere will lead it to a water which is below the sphere; and it becometh a seething
fire and eateth into it until it purifieth it utterly.

12. "And Yaluham, the receiver of Sabaōth, the Adamas, bringeth the cup of forgetfulness
and handeth it to the soul, and it drinketh it and forgetteth all regions and all things and
all the regions through which it hath gone. And they deliver it unto a body which will
spend its time being afflicted.
13. "This is the chastisement of the slanderer."

CHAPTER 145
1. Mary said: "Woe, woe, unto sinners!"
2. Salome answered and said: "My Lord Jesus, a murderer who hath never committed any
sin but murdering, if he cometh out of the body, what is his chastisement?

3. Jesus answered and said: "A murderer who hath never committed any sin but
murdering, if his time is completed through the sphere, that he cometh out of the body,

the receivers of Yaldabaōth come and lead his soul out of the body and bind it by its feet
to a great demon with a horse's face, and he spendeth three days circling round with it
in the world.
4. "Thereafter they lead it into the regions of the cold and of the snow, and they take

vengeance on it there three years and six months.
5. "Thereafter they lead it down into the chaos before Yaldabaōth and his forty-and-nine
demons, and every one of his demons scourgeth it another three years and six months.
6. "Thereafter they lead it down into the chaos before Persephonē and take vengeance on
it with her chastisements another three years and six months.
7. "Thereafter they carry it on to the way of the midst, and every one of the rulers of the

way of the midst taketh vengeance on it with the chastisements of its regions another
three years and six months.
8. "Thereafter they lead it unto the Virgin of Light, who judgeth the righteous and the
sinners, that she may judge it. And when the sphere turneth itself, she commandeth

that it shall be cast into the outer darkness until the time when the darkness of the
midst shall be upraised; it [the soul] will be destroyed and dissolved.
9. "This is the chastisement of the murderer."