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CHAPTER 146
1. Peter said: "My Lord, let the women cease to question, in order that we also may
question."
2. Jesus said unto Mary and the women: "Give opportunity to your men brethren, that
they also may question."

3. Peter answered and said: "My Lord, a robber and thief, whose sin is this persistently,
when he cometh out of the body, what is his chastisement?"
4. Jesus said: "If the time of such an one is completed through the sphere, the receivers of
Adōnis come after him, and lead his soul out of the body, and they spend three days

circling round with it and instructing it concerning the creatures of the world.
5. "Thereafter they lead it down into the Amente before Ariēl, and he taketh vengeance on
it in his chastisements three months, eight days and two hours.
6. "Thereafter they lead it into the chaos before Yaldabaōth and his forty-and-nine
demons, and every one of his demons taketh vengeance on it another three months,
eight days and two hours.

7. "Thereafter they lead it on to the way of the midst, and every one of the rulers of the
way of the midst taketh vengeance on it through his dark smoke and his wicked fire
another three months, eight days and two hours.
8. "Thereafter they lead it up unto 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 they lead it forth
into a water which is below the sphere; and it becometh a seething fire and eateth into
it until it purifieth it utterly.
9. "Thereafter cometh Yaluham, the receiver of Sabaōth, the Adamas, bringeth the cup of
forget-fulness and handeth it unto the soul; and it drinketh it and forgetteth all things

and all the regions to which it had gone. And they cast it into a lame, halt and blind
body.
10. "This is the chastisement of the thief."

11. Andrew answered and said: "An arrogant, overweening man, when he cometh out of
the body, what will happen to him?"
12. Jesus said: "If the time of such an one is completed through the sphere, the receivers of
Ariēl come after him and lead out his soul [out of the body] and spend three days
travelling round in the world [with it] and instructing it concerning the creatures of the
world.

13. "Thereafter they lead it down into the Amente before Ariēl; and he taketh vengeance on
it with his chastisements twenty months.