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4. "Thereafter they carry it to the fire-rivers and seething pitch-seas, which are full of
demons with pigs' faces. They eat into them and take vengeance on [?] them in the fire-

rivers another eleven years.
5. "Thereafter they carry them into the outer darkness until the day of judgment when the
great darkness is judged; and then they will be dissolved and destroyed."

6. Thomas said: "We have heard that there are some on the earth who take the male seed
and the female monthly blood, and make it into a lentil porridge and eat it, saying: 'We

have faith in Esau and Jacob.' Is this then seemly or not?"
7. Jesus was wroth with the world in that hour and said unto Thomas: "Amēn, I say: This
sin is more heinous than all sins and iniquities. Such men will straightway be taken into
the outer darkness and not be cast back anew into the sphere, but they shall perish, be

destroyed in the outer darkness in a region where there is neither pity nor light, but
howling and grinding of teeth. And all the souls which shall be brought into the outer
darkness, will not be cast back anew, but will be destroyed and dissolved."

8. John answered [and said]: "A man who hath committed no sin, but done good
persistently, but hath not found the mysteries to pass through the rulers, when he

cometh out of the body, what will happen unto him?"
9. Jesus said: "If the time of such an one is completed through the sphere, the receivers of
Bainchōōōch, who is one of the triple-powered gods, come after his soul and lead his
soul with joy and exultation and spend three days circling round with it and instructing it

concerning the creations of the world with joy and exultation.
10. "Thereafter they lead it down into the Amente and instruct it concerning the
instruments of chastisement in the Amente; but they will not take vengeance on it
therewith. But they will only instruct it concerning them, and the smoke of the flame of
the chastisements catcheth it only a little.
11. "Thereafter they carry it up unto the way of the midst and instruct it concerning the

chastisements of the ways of the midst, the smoke from the flame catching it a little.
12. "Thereafter they lead it unto the Virgin of Light, and she judgeth it and depositeth it
with the little Sabaōth, the Good, him of the Midst, until the sphere turneth itself, and
Zeus and Aphrodite come in face of the Virgin of Light, while Kronos and Arēs come
behind her.

13. "At that hour she taketh that righteous soul and handeth it over to her receivers, that
they may cast it into the peons of the sphere. And the servitors of the sphere lead it
forth into a water which is below the sphere; and a seething fire ariseth and eateth into
it until it purifieth it utterly.
14. "Thereafter cometh Yaluham, the receiver of Sabaōth, the Adamas, who giveth the cup

of forgetfulness unto the souls, and he bringeth the water of forgetfulness and handeth