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CHAPTER 17
1. When then he had said this to his disciples, he said unto them: "Who hath ears to hear,
let him hear."
2. It came to pass then, when Mary had heard the Saviour say these words, that she gazed
fixedly into the air for the space of an hour. She said: "My Lord, give commandment

unto me to speak in openness."
3. And Jesus, the compassionate, answered and said unto Mary: "Mary, thou blessed one,
whom I will perfect in all mysteries of those of the height, discourse in openness, thou,
whose heart is raised to the kingdom of heaven more than all thy brethren."

CHAPTER 18
1. Then said Mary to the Saviour: "My Lord, the word which thou hast spoken unto us:

'Who hath ears to hear, let him hear,' thou sayest in order that we may understand the
word which thou hast spoken. Hearken, therefore, my Lord, that I may discourse in
openness.
2. "The word which thou hast spoken: 'I have taken a third from the power of the rulers of
all the æons, and changed their Fate and their sphere over which they rule, in order

that, if the race of men invoke them in the mysteries--those which the angels who
transgressed have taught them for the accomplishing of their evil and lawless deeds in
the mystery of their sorcery,'--in order then that they may no more from this hour
accomplish their lawless deeds, because thou hast taken their power from them and
from their horoscope-casters and their consulters and from those who declare to the

men in the world all things which shall come to pass, in order that they should no more
from this hour know how to declare unto them any thing at all which will come to pass
(for thou hast changed their spheres, and hast made them spend six months turned to
the left and accomplishing their influences, and another six months facing the right and
accomplishing their influences),--concerning this word then, my Lord, the power which

was in the prophet Isaiah, hath spoken thus and proclaimed aforetime in a spiritual
similitude, discoursing on the 'Vision about Egypt': 'Where then, O Egypt, where are thy
consulters and horoscope-casters and those who cry out of the earth and those who cry
out of their belly? Let them then declare unto thee from now on the deeds which the
lord Sabaōth will do!'

3. "The power then which was in the prophet Isaiah, prophesied before thou didst come,
that thou wouldst take away the power of the rulers of the æons and wouldst change
their sphere and their Fate, in order that they might know nothing from now on. For this
cause it hath said also: 'Ye shall then know not of what the lord Sabaōth will do '; that is,

none of the rulers will know what thou wilt do from now on,--for they are 'Egypt,'