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20. I made Pistis Sophia continue to stand upon the seven-headed-basilisk emanation of
Self-willed; and it was more mighty than them all in its evil doings. And I, the First

Mystery, stood by it and took all the powers in it, and made to perish its whole matter,
so that no seed should arise from it from now on."

CHAPTER 67
1. And when the First Mystery said this unto his disciples, he answered and said:
"Understand ye in what manner I discourse with you?"

2. James came forward and said: "My Lord, concerning then the solution of the words
which thou hast said, thus hath thy light-power prophesied thereon aforetime through
David in the ninetieth Psalm:
3. "' Whoso then dwelleth under the help of the Most High, will abide under the
shadow of the God of heaven.
4. "'He will say unto the Lord: Thou art my succour and my place of refuge, my God,

in whom I trust.
5. "' For he will save me out of the snare of the hunters and from mighty word.
6. "'He will shade thee with his breast, and thou shalt have trust beneath his wings;
his truth shall surround thee as a shield.

7. "' Thou wilt not be afraid of terror by night nor of an arrow which flieth by day,
8. "' Of a thing which slinketh in the darkness, of a mischance and a demon at mid-
day.
9. "' A thousand will fall on thy left, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but they
shall not come nigh thee.
10. "' Nay rather with thine eyes wilt thou behold, thou wilt see the requital of the

sinners.
11. "' For thou, O Lord, art my hope. Thou hast established the Most High for thyself
as refuge.
12. "' Harm will not come nigh unto thee; scourge will not come nigh thy dwelling.

13. "' For he will give commandment to his angels on thy behalf that they guard thee
on all thy ways,
14. "' And bear thee on their hands, that thou mayest never strike with thy foot
against a stone.
15. "' Thou wilt stride over the serpent and basilisk and tread on lion and dragon.
16. "' Because he hath trusted in me, I will save him; I will overshadow him, because

he hath known my name.
17. "' He will cry unto me and I shall hearken unto him; I am at his side in his
tribulation and will save him and honour him,