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powers, that is the souls, might spend a long time here outside,--they then persisted
doing this continually for two circles.

2. "It came to pass then, when I wished to ascend for the ministry for the sake of which I
was called by command of the First Mystery, that I came up into the midst of the tyrants
of the rulers of the twelve æons, with my light-vesture about me, shining most
exceedingly, and there was no measure for the light which was about me.
3. "It came to pass then, when those tyrants saw the great light which was about me, that
the great Adamas, the Tyrant, and all the tyrants of the twelve æons, all together began

to fight against the light of my vesture, desiring to hold it fast among them, in order to
delay in their rulership. This then they did, not knowing against whom they fought.

4. "When then they mutinied and fought against the light, thereon by command of the

First Mystery I changed the paths and the courses of their æons and the paths of their
Fate and of their sphere.
5. I made them face six months towards the triangles on the left and towards the squares
and towards those in their aspect and towards their octagons, just as they had formerly
been. But their manner of turning, or facing, I changed to another order, and made
them other six months face towards the works of their influences in the squares on the

right and in their triangles and in those in their aspect and in their octagons.
6. And I made them to be confounded in great confusion and deluded in great delusion--
the rulers of the æons and all the rulers of the Fate and those of the sphere; and I set
them in great agitation, and thence on they were no longer able to turn towards the

refuse of their matter to devour it, in order that their regions may continue to delay and
they [themselves] may spend a long time as rulers.

7. "But when I had taken away a third of their power, I changed their spheres, so that they
spend a time facing to the left and another time facing to the right. I have changed their
whole path and their whole course, and I have made the path of their course to hurry,

so that they may be quickly purified and raised up quickly. And I have shortened their
circles, and made their path more speedy, and it will be exceedingly hurried. And they
were thrown into confusion in their path, and from then on were no more able to
devour the matter of the refuse of the purification of their light.
8. And moreover I have shortened their times and their periods, so that the perfect

number of souls who shall receive the mysteries and be in the Treasury of the Light,
shall be quickly completed. For had I not changed their courses, and had I not shortened
their periods, they would not have let any soul come into the world, because of the
matter of their refuse which they devoured, and they would have destroyed many souls.
9. For this cause I said unto you aforetime: 'I have shortened the times because of my

elect; otherwise no soul would have been able to be saved.' And I have shortened the