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Melchisedec, the Light-purifier. And their material refuse they bring to the sphere which
is below the æons, and fashion it into [souls of] men, and fashion it also into souls of

reptiles and of cattle and of wild-beasts and of birds, according to the circle of the rulers
of that sphere and according to all the configurations of its revolution, and they cast
them into this world of mankind, and they become souls in this region, as I have just
said unto you.

CHAPTER 26
1. "This then they accomplished continuously before their power was diminished in them

and they waned and became exhausted, or powerless. It came to pass then, when they
became powerless, that their power began to cease in them, so that they became
exhausted in their power, and their light, which was in their region, ceased and their
kingdom was destroyed, and the universe became quickly raised up.

2. "It came to pass then, when they had perceived this at the time, and when the number

of the cipher of Melchisedec, the Receiver [of the Light], happened, then had he to
come out again and enter into the midst of the rulers of all the æons and into the midst
of all the rulers of the Fate and of those of the sphere; and he threw them into agitation,
and made them quickly abandon their circles. And forthwith they were constrained, and

cast forth the power out of themselves, out of the breath of their mouth and the tears
of their eyes and the sweat of their bodies.

3. "And Melchisedec, the Receiver of the Light, purifieth them, as he doth continually; he
carrieth their light into the Treasury of the Light. And all the rulers of the æons and the
rulers of the Fate and those of the sphere turn to the matter of their refuse; they devour

it and do not let it go and become souls in the world. They devour then their matter, so
that they may not become powerless and exhausted and their power cease in them and
their kingdom become destroyed, but in order that they may delay and linger a long
time until the completion of the number of the perfect souls who shall be in the

Treasury of the Light.

CHAPTER 27
1. "It came to pass then, when the rulers of the æons and those of the Fate and those of
the sphere continued to carry out this type,--turning on themselves, devouring the
refuse of their matter, and not allowing souls to be born into the world of mankind, in
order that they might delay in being rulers, and that the powers which are in their