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regions, may be confounded in confusion and deluded in delusion, so that they may not
understand their own paths."

CHAPTER 22
1. It came to pass then, when Jesus had finished saying these words, while Philip sat and

wrote all the words that Jesus spake,--thereafter then it came to pass that Philip came
forward, fell down and adored the feet of Jesus, saying: "My Lord and Saviour, grant me
authority to discourse before thee and to question thee on this word, before thou
discoursest with us concerning the regions whither thou didst go because of thy

ministry."
2. And the compassionate Saviour answered and said unto Philip: "Authority is given thee
to bring forward the word which thou willest."
3. And Philip answered and said unto Jesus: "My Lord, on account of what mystery hast
thou changed the binding of the rulers and their æons and their Fate and their sphere
and all their regions, and made them confounded in confusion on their path and

deluded in their course? Hast thou then done this unto them for the salvation of the
world or hast thou not?"

CHAPTER 23
1. And Jesus answered and said unto Philip and to all the disciples together: "I have
changed their path for the salvation of all souls.
2. Amēn, amēn, I say unto you If I had not changed their path, a host of souls would have

been destroyed, and they would have spent a long time, if the rulers of the æons and
the rulers of the Fate and of the sphere and of all their regions and all their heavens and
all their æons had not been brought to naught; and the souls would have continued a
long time here outside, and the completion of the number of perfect souls would have

been delayed, which [souls] shall be counted in the Inheritance of the Height through
the mysteries and shall be in the Treasury of the Light.
3. For this cause then I have changed their path, that they might be deluded and fall into
agitation and yield up the power which is in the matter of their world and which they
fashion into souls, in order that those who shall be saved, might be quickly purified and
raised on high, they and the whole power, and that those who shall not be saved, might

be quickly destroyed."