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16. "'Let them take away the light in his emanations and blot out their name from
the thirteenth æon, yea rather take his name for ever out of that region.

17. "'And on the lion-faced power let them bring the sin of him who emanated it,
before the Light, and not wipe out the iniquity of the matter which hath brought
him [sc. Self-willed] forth.
18. "'And may their sin be altogether before the Light eternally, and may they let
them not look beyond [the chaos] and take their names out of all regions;
19. "'Because they have not spared me and have oppressed him whose light and

whose power they have taken away, and also conformably with those who set
me therein, they desired to take away my whole light from me.
20. "'They loved to descend to the chaos; so let them abide therein, and they shall
not be brought up [therefrom] from now on. They desired not the region of

Righteousness for dwelling-place, and they shall not be taken thither from now
on.
21. '"He put on darkness as a garment, and it entered into him as water, and it
entered in into all his powers as oil.
22. "'Let him wrap himself into the chaos as into a garment, and gird himself with
the darkness as with a leathern girdle for ever.

23. "'Let this befall them who have brought this upon me for the Light's sake and
have said: Let us take away her whole power.
24. "'But do thou, O Light, have mercy upon me for the sake of the mystery of thy
name, and save me in the goodness of thy grace.

25. "'For they have taken away my light and my power; and my power hath inwardly
tottered, and I could not stand upright in their midst.
26. "'I am become as matter which is fallen; I am tossed hither and thither as a
demon in the air.
27. "'My power hath perished, because I possess no mystery; and my matter hath
become dwindled because of my light, for they have taken it away.

28. "'And they mocked me; they looked at me, nodding at me.
29. "'Help me according to thy mercy.'
30. "Now, therefore, let him whose spirit is ready, come forward and utter the solution of
the twelfth repentance of Pistis Sophia."